Innovators Among Us: When Technology Brings Learning to Life

Teaching with Technology 聽|聽 May 2016

This report details the innovative ways instructors are working hard to engage students, using technology as a means to improve the results. They are trying something new, and it鈥檚 paying off. Their students have responded鈥攂y getting involved, making connections, creating something original, even sharing their learning online for anyone to see.

The Innovators Among Us series aims to facilitate sharing best practices and celebrate that willingness to try something new.

This latest report, When Technology Brings Learning to Life, is, in itself, an example of 鈥渢rying something new鈥� through a partnership with 91探花Information Technology supported by the Center for Teaching and Learning and 91探花Libraries.

Each of the stories presented here were released over the past year on the Innovators Among Us website. Now they are gathered in a and paired with another innovation: downloadable guides with best practices culled from each teaching technique. These are practical tips that can be replicated and applied to other classrooms and in different disciplines.

91探花instructors are continually experimenting to improve their teaching methods and student learning outcomes. Countless people, from teaching consultants to learning technologists to graduate assistants and so many more, join in that tireless dedication to student learning鈥攖hat is one of the strengths of a great university.

We look forward to telling more stories of those classroom experimenters who are finding new ways to engage students and measure the outcomes in the search for meaningful impact.

Thank you to the innovative instructors engaged in this work and to all of those committed to improving teaching and learning at the UW.

May 2016 Feature stories

Showing rather than telling at UW鈥檚 School of Dentistry

Finding meaning behind the music

Resources

The Center for Teaching and Learning

The offers workshops and Faculty and Professional Learning Communities (FPLCs), as well as extensive resources on teaching with technology, active learning, large lecture instruction, and flipping the classroom.

91探花Libraries

at the 91探花Libraries provides teaching and , including Odegaard Undergraduate Library鈥檚 .

91探花Information Technology (UW-IT)

works with 91探花faculty and departments to use technology to improve learning outcomes. Find for tools including the learning management system and the lecture-capture system .

also offers one-on-one consultations for faculty and instructors looking to use technology for teaching. Faculty interested in speaking with a specialist in educational technologies can email help@uw.edu.

91探花Video

is a complete video production studio. They provide video development, production, publishing and more.

91探花Bothell

The 91探花Bothell (TLC) offers faculty support, including resources on topics including for collaboration, and digital literacy and online publishing for student work. Check the TLC schedule for upcoming events. provides support for the integration of technology in teaching and learning. Their website includes how-to guides, instructional resources and a blog.

The 91探花Bothell Learning Technologies unit offers faculty support including workshops, consultations, and institutes. They also have an with resources on a number of teaching/learning and technology subjects. They also support students through the .

91探花Tacoma

91探花Tacoma鈥檚 offers training and support on new pedagogy and technology. The meets monthly to discuss effective practice. is supported by the Teaching, Learning & Technology group for on- ground, hybrid and online teaching.

Acknowledgments

Many thanks to the 91探花faculty, students, and staff who contributed their stories, and to the 91探花subject matter experts who lent their advice to this report series, including Andreas Brockhaus and Erin Hill of 91探花Bothell; John Burkhardt and Colleen Carmean of 91探花Tacoma; Calla Chancellor and Karen Freisam of the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL); Sara Brownell and Mary Pat Wenderoth in the Department of Biology; Bridgette Kern, Elise Perachio and colleagues of University Marketing and Communications; Susan McCrary and colleagues of UW-IT.

Special thanks to the members of the Innovators Among Us Advisory Board:

Siobhan Bauer, Katie Kirkland, Marisa Nickle and Jillian Reddish of the Office of the Provost
Cindy Brown, Ignacio Lobos, Jade McDaniels, Nathan McKee, Phil Reid and Jason Smith of UW-IT
Nicole Feodorov, Beth Kaliko and Christine Sugatan of the Center for Teaching and Learning
Amanda Hornby of the 91探花Libraries

Series editors
Gerald J. Baldasty, Interim Provost and Executive Vice President
Marisa Nickle, Director of Strategy and Academic Initiatives, Office of the Provost

Editoral advisor
Cindy Brown, Director of Communications, 91探花Information Technology

Production
Editorial Director and Report Designer: Jill Reddish, Graduate Student Assistant,Office of the Provost Editorial Director and Writer: Ignacio Lobos, Communications Content Manager, UW-IT
Web Editor: Jade McDaniels, Content Designer, UW-IT
Katie Kirkland, Project Manager of Strategy and Initiatives, Office of the Provost
Siobhan Bauer, Undergraduate Assistant, Office of the Provost

Photography
Filiz Efe McKinney, Multimedia Producer, Office聽of the Provost
Ignacio Lobos, Communications Content Manager, UW-IT

Copy editing
Kay Pilcher, Communications Manager, UW-IT

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