21-22 LTS Annual Report

FOSTERING INNOVATION AND EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING AND LEARNING 1 Two thirds of first-year students and one third of graduate students completed the voluntary LTS Ramp Up online summer orientation. Hosted on our Course Site learning management system, Ramp Up features interactive video, software downloads, and more to help orient new students to our services before they arrive on campus. Our Learning Space Technology and Design Team completed upgrades to 22 classrooms, including upgrades to eight with HyFlex capability and 14 with computer and classroom control systems; upgraded four conference rooms, built out three mobile computer/conferencing units and two digital signage systems; and upgraded 130 computers in public computing sites. The Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL) and Instruction & Outreach librarians once again partnered with the Graduate Life Office to offer our Teacher Development Series. This program is for graduate students looking to improve their instructional and classroom skills. Topics included Inclusive Teaching, Course Design Principles, Promoting Your TA Experience, and Dead Ideas in Teaching and Learning. 202 1 /22 | ANNUAL REPORT | 3 CITL led a Principles of Effective Teaching workshop for all College of Health faculty and deans. Technology Services conducted a spring 22 pilot of LUapps, powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), with faculty in classes that would be major users of the new approach to software distribution. LUapps AWS provides access to applications for the classroom or office in a Windows virtual desktop environment right in a web browser, with all the advantages of a full virtual desktop, including easier file management. The successful pilot led to a recommendation for fall 22 campus-wide deployment of LUapps, powered by AWS. Technology Services also created custom JupyterHub and RStudio environments that allow instructors to teach courses using these tools without having to spend time working with students to install and configure their local environments. CITL hosted a two-day workshop for Computing Science faculty to support the design and development of courses for their new Flex Data Science Masters Program.

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