Office of Instruction and Assessment

In a time of widespread budget crises and higher workloads, it is difficult for institutions to provide strategies for sustained professional growth. However, faculty have a great deal to offer each other in terms of support and knowledge, and faculty partnerships can make important contributions to the teaching missions of their units and institutions.

A Professional Development Event sponsored by the UA Office of Instruction and Assessment

Monday February 28, 2011, 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm
Gallagher Theater, Student Union Memorial Center

OIA and the Arizona Health Sciences Library are hosting two sessions that will provide attendees with information on how to get materials into iTunes U and Arizona YouTube, and an explanation of why you should use these resources.

Both these sessions are being held in the Health Sciences LIbrary classroom, 2102.

The first session in on Wednesday March 10 at 3pm and is titled "The UA's iTunes U: 90,000 visitors a week and growing". 

OIA has made available two new modules for Graduate Teaching Assistants. These are part of the TATO (Teaching Assistants Tutorials Online) online offerings.

Gary Mackender and the Virtual Reality Annex have been doing some exciting work imaging objects and areas. 

Congratulations to Kyla Macario for having had her workshop proposal "Front Loading your students: Increasing reflection, critical thinking and participation,” accepted for The Teaching Professor Conference, which takes place in Atlanta, May 20-22, 2011. Way to go!

For the Spring 2011 semester OIA staff are teaching the following courses:

Thursday February 10 at 12 Noon, in the OIA classroom ILC Room 136.

Intended audience: Faculty and TAs

Facilitated by Bruce Cameron.

We at OIA have found it difficult finding images to use on our websites or designs, so we decided to come up with our very own photo repository that is properly tagged for easy searching.  We also have plenty photographers in our department to keep our collection growing.

From the Daily Wildcat  December 6, 2010

D2L has been a helpful tool for both teachers and students, but when a class does not have one, some students say it can make their lives more difficult.

The UA Office of Instruction and Assessment invites all faculty and others interested in instructional practices, technologies, planning, or assessment to register for a Teaching Academy seminar,  meet our consultants, and see examples of OIA’s resources for support of teaching.

Teaching Academy – Thursday, January 6 2011 9:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
in The Manuel Pacheco Integrated Learning Center (ILC)