Blaine Walker, manager of the Teaching Center’s Academic Digital Media unit, was recognized by Chancellor Patrick Gallagher at the Chancellor’s Staff Recognition Awards Ceremony for completing 40 years of service at the University of Pittsburgh. “My time at Pitt has…
The Office of the Provost, in conjunction with the University Center for Teaching and Learning, awarded six faculty with the Provost's Award for Diversity in the Curriculum Nov. 9, at the University Club. The award formally recognizes the efforts of faculty…
For Professor David Harris, Sall Ann Semenko Endowed Chair and professor of law at the University of Pittsburgh, the Teaching Center’s Media Creation Lab presented a unique opportunity for him. Harris teaches several courses at Pitt on criminal law and…
Top Hat Classroom is a powerful student engagement application that offers a suite of tools for faculty to engage their classroom in different ways, adopt and author next generation interactive textbooks, and create assignments on the fly.
Outside the auditorium, in between the rockets and the trapeze artists, a twenty six-foot tall remote-controlled metal hand was crushing cars for fun. Under a series of nearby tents educators, entrepreneurs, and engineers demonstrated their latest inventions, pitted robots against…
@Pitt is a digital communication that focuses on institutional and administrative content, plus practical news-you-can-use for an internal and professional community produced by University Communications. The University Center for Teaching and Leaning was recently featured in two articles on the website.…
The Open Lab is excited to announce the next phase of its collaboration with the University Library System: the opening of a satellite space for virtual reality exploration and 3D printing demonstrations in Hillman Library's Digital Scholarship Commons. Faculty, students,…
The University of Pittsburgh recently announced the immediate availability of Blackboard Collaborate and Top Hat. Both technologies are now free to use for both faculty and students, and both offer opportunities to increase communication, collaboration, and feedback inside the classroom…
This month's Back to School edition of North Hills Magazine (page 14) featured Pitt Online for its role in the growth of online education. Manager Jonathan Gunnell spoke about how online courses function at Pitt, as well as the role of technology in online learning.…
The ID2ID Program is a cross-institutional professional development program for Instructional Designers (ID) open to educational technologists, multimedia specialists, programmers, and production specialists in higher education settings. This joint initiative between Penn State University and Educause launched its first cohort…