University Tools for Supporting Teaching

Linda JornBradley A. Cohen

Office of Information Technology, Digital Media Center

Do you think students want technology-rich learning environments?

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Are you planning to use academic technology in your courses this semester?

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Have you taught using course management systems (e.g., Moodle, Blackboard, WebCT, Desire2Learn)?

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Facebook: Yes or no?

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IM or Email?

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Blog or Twitter?

Who are UMN Students?

UMN Students and Technology

Agenda• Introducing OIT and DMC

• Learning platform/MyU

• Centrally supported tools

• Changing landscape

• Support resources

• Governance and participation

Office of Information Technology Mission: serve as a catalyst for innovatively leveraging technology to advance and support extraordinary education, breakthrough research, and dynamic public engagement.

OIT ascatalyst &connector

Office of Information Technology team members:

• Replaced 1,750 wireless access points this year

• Support 33,000 phones• Support 1,100+ servers• Delivered 20,000,000 e-mails through

security checks in May 2008 (blocking 53 million spam messages)

• Employed 704 employees (including students) in June 2008

OIT FY09 DirectionsIn Partnership

• High availability design• Customer support / education; active learning labs• Mobile/global learning/wireless• Research cyberinfrastructure• Identity management• Collaborative technologies/video; Google Apps• Data center; data storage• Disaster recovery• Climate survey (recognition, job clarity, coaching/mentoring)• Content management• Business intelligence

“One OIT”

Digital Media Center

• Emerging Academic Technologies

• Evaluation and Research

• Usability Services

• Training

• Professional Development and Consultation

Tools

Take a few minutes to meet your neighbors. Is anybody in your group planning to integrate technology into courses this fall? To what extent (i.e., is this course enhanced, hybrid/blended, or distance)? Is there a nice example of a learning activity or specific learning outcome that technology is intended to facilitate?

Learning Platform

Learning Platform

Centrally Supported Tools for Teaching

uTools

http://dmc.umn.edu/technologies.shtml

Examples

• Moodle Glossary

• Moodle Wiki

• WebVista Grading Form

• WebVista Peer Review

Emerging Technologies

• Web 2.0

• Delicious

• Social networks

• Mobile computing

• Immersive environments

• Google apps, youtube….

Academic Computing Support Resources

• Departmental experts

• Collegiate experts

• Central support experts

• (Inter) National organizations such as Sloan, ELI, EDUCAUSE – 7 things you should know

Governance and Participation

• TEL Council (Contact Billie Wahlstrom, Vice Provost)

• Academic Technology Advisory Committee (Contact your collegiate representative)

• Senate Committee on Information Technology (Contact faculty senate office)

Thank You!

http://dmc.umn.edu

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Linda JornBradley A. Cohen

Office of InformationTechnology

Digital Media Center