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Use Our Services :: Consultations

Our consultants have years of experience supporting 1000s of instructors of every discipline from across campus.  Drawing upon current teaching and technology research, insights gleaned from peer institutions, and hands-on collaboration with instructors, CITES EdTech consultants can quickly assess your teaching and learning goals and suggest proven strategies and practices to facilitate and enhance how you employ technology in your teaching. Our consultants can offer initial advice, or referrals to campus experts, on any technology topic. In particular, we provide extended consulting with a wide range of teaching and technology topics:

• How to take greater advantage of Illinois Compass
• How online videos might better engage your students
• How to find the best pedagogic and technology assistance and resources on campus
• How new web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, wikis, podcasting, and clickers can improve student collaboration.

Our consulting support ranges from a quick phone or email response, to an office visit, to an extended partnership as you pilot new strategies with your students. Since we learn as much from campus instructors as they learn from us when we consult, we make every effort to be helpful, collegial, and dynamic partners.

The Educational Technologies team:

• Identifies the pedagogical goals of instructors.
• Discusses instructor’s teaching style.
• Determines the technology most useful to meet needs.
• Provides coaching to design classes for optimal student learning.
• Helps instructors learn appropriate technologies.
• Implements the technology for classes.
• Builds collaborative teams by connecting faculty to appropriate campus resources and experts.
• Works to enhance student learning outcomes.
• Evaluates the effectiveness of the technology tool in classroom learning.

Benefits

• Receive free service and support.
• Increase options for managing your instruction time and student contact.
• Achieve pedagogical goals.
• Gain support for large numbers of students in classes.
• Assist large section courses with distribution of materials and automation of class management tasks.
• Design and develop a platform for cooperative learning experiences.

Software Applications

Frequently, EdTech provides one-on-one consultations with users who want to integrate other software applications into their classes, including:

• Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
• Adobe Photoshop and Acrobat
• Adobe (formerly Macromedia) Flash and Dreamweaver
• Apple iLife Suite: iMovie, iPhoto, Garageband, etc.
• Podcasting and other Web 2.0 technologies
• Other software as requested

Assessment & Evaluation

CITES consultants will meet with any instructor who wishes to evaluate the effectiveness of their technology use for teaching and learning.

We will work with instructors to identify what types of student outcomes they wish to assess, methods for tracking student behavior, the efficacy of a technology to meet an educational need, and other methods for assessing the impact of technology use in the classroom.

When necessary we will also help instructors locate campus resources, such as those in the Center for Teaching Excellence, for specialized or extensive course and curriculum evaluations.

To arrange a meeting with one of our consultants please e-mail edtech@uiuc.edu
or call 244-7000.