IT’s Academic Technology Services (ATS) team collaborates in several ways with the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) to support Rice professors striving to excel in their teaching techniques.
Each semester, Rice faculty and graduate student instructors can attend several lunch-time brown bag workshops on pedagogy topics, often followed by a hands-on training session to learn new teaching tools discussed in the pedagogy workshop. Can’t make one of the sessions? All the CTE-ATS events are recorded and archived in a video repository.
CTE and ATS also evaluate new tools at the request of Rice instructors, to determine if and where synergies with existing technologies can be developed. When a new teaching technology is proposed as a campus-wide solution, ATS and CTE work closely to consult with the vendor, ensuring a smooth implementation and trial phase.
Rice faculty interest in pedagogy and teaching technology prompted a weekly reading group on Teaching and Technology topics, and a teaching space in Mudd Lab allows instructors to explore lecture capture and screen-share systems before launching the tools in their own classrooms. The screen-share technology is an excellent resource for group discussions because the teacher can choose to project their own computer and/or the screens of linked student-use computers.
To learn more about the workshops and other resources, contact either CTE or the ATS team.
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