Office of Instruction and Assessment

Position opening at the OIA: Assistant/Associate Professor of Practice    

D2L’s annual summer upgrade will be on Friday night, July 5th. This upgrade will provide many changes to the D2L interface.   

Some of the new features that will be provided with this upgrade are: 

By Daniel Stolte, University Communications, Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Wednesday April 17, 3013, 11am to 4pm

The first-ever Publisher’s Expo was created to give faculty an opportunity to learn, discuss, and interact with course material experts and university resource departments. Speakers for the Expo were carefully selected to provide sessions on university services, emerging technologies, and the future of academic course materials.

The OIA is very excited to introduce the Heart Anatomy Explorer I app created by the OIA Applications Team!

Charles Hill took the lead on this project and with photography from Gary Mackender created a wonderful tool for medical students to use throughout their educational career. Dr. Mark Nelson from Pathology approached the OIA with his idea of documenting human organs and presenting them digitally on a smart device and/or computer.

Current offerings from the OIA.

We are offering Webinars that will describe the changes to D2L and illustrate what the new look of D2L will entail.  Webinars are one hour long:

Monday June 10, 11am Register

What:  Using Quality Standards to Improve Your Online Course Design

Who:   Facilitated by Melody Buckner, Outreach College

When:  Tuesday February 12, 10 to 11:30am

Where:  ILC Room 136

Introduction to Teaching Online: An Online Mini-Course

Watching a video recording of himself teaching, University of Arizona graduate student Dee Hill Zuganelli said he learned a lot about his classroom presence and how he engaged his students.