Curriculum and Instructional Resources
Teaching
and Learning Center (TLC)
Location: 102 Douglas Hall
Phone: (312) 413-9166
E-Mail: Teaching@uic.edu
Web: http://www.uic.edu/depts/oaa/spec_prog/tlc
The TLC offers a wide range of support to UIC instructors. The TLC works with faculty to explore how various pedagogical strategies, instructional media, and/or other teaching tools can help meet individual instructional goals. The TLC collaborates with instructors to develop custom assessment strategies to help measure and report instructional outcomes and processes. Whether it be assessing how incorporating multimedia into class presentations influences student learning or discussing how adopting a problem-based learning approach can affect course dynamics, the TLC strives to ensure that instructional media helps faculty meet their instructional goals.
Instructional
Technology Lab (ITL)
Location: 181 Benjamin Goldberg Research Center
Phone: (312) 996-9824
E-mail: itl@uic.edu
Web: http://www.uic.edu/depts/accc/itl/
The ITL offers support of faculty projects involving instructional technology. The ITL provides training, seminars, and consultation to faculty wishing to use computer technology in instruction. The ITL is an outstanding resource for matching instructional goals to specific software packages and products and helping faculty become proficient in using those packages.
InfoTech
Arcade
Location: Main Library (East Campus) and Library of the Health
Sciences (West Campus)
Phone: (312) 996-0301 (East Campus) and (312) 996-7484 (West
Campus)
E-mail: arcade@uic.edu
Web: http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/arcade
The InfoTech Arcade helps faculty design and implement multimedia projects. The two InfoTech Arcade locations provide faculty access to courseware, examples, equipment, and ideas necessary to produce multimedia course materials. The InfoTech Arcade can assist faculty with copyright issues, finding successful applications of media in a discipline, and digitizing existing media.
Audio/Visual
Services (A/V)
Location: 119 Douglas Hall
Phone: (312) 996-2751
E-mail: classrooms@uic.edu
Web: http://www.uic.edu/depts/oaa/ocs/
A/V coordinates the maintenance and operation of classrooms at UIC, including multimedia classrooms. Additionally, A/V offers a variety of equipment for loan to instructors. A/V can provide faculty with an overview of the portable equipment available for loan.
Office of Extermal Education
Contact: Renee Jones Welch
Location: 1333 South Halsted Street, Suite 205
Phone: 355-1767
E-Mail: rwelch1@uic.edu
Web: http://www.uic.edu/depts/oee/
The Office of External Education provides leadership and support of online and blended courses, programs, and certificates. External Education offers instructional design support and project management expertise to faculty interested in redesigning courses to make them online or blended (partially online and partially face-to-face). It is strongly recommended that UIC faculty interested in online or blended curriculum and instruction take advantage of the expertise of External Education in planning their proposals.
Council
for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL)
Location: 2718 University Hall
Phone: (312) 355-2499
E-mail: cetl@uic.edu
Web: http://www.uic.edu/depts/oaa/cetl
In addition to administering the C & I Grants program, CETL compiles teaching and learning resources for the UIC community. CETL can suggest teaching and learning resources and help locate pedagogical resources, both on and off campus. Additionally, CETL staff can help faculty with all aspects of the Scholarship of Teaching, including developing outcomes assessments for instructional projects or activities and finding outlets to disseminate results.
