An Annotated Endnote Chart for UCLA’s Educational Effectiveness Review Report
In the left column, the # = endnote number for each essay.
Endnotes for Essay D – UCLA’s Educational Technology Initiatives: Enhancing Learning and Teaching
#
Document, Data, Website, or Comment
1
Website: Reports of the Information Technology Planning Board (ITPB): http://www.itpb.ucla.edu/documents/
2
Document: UCLA IT Strategic Plan: 2009-2018: http://evc.ucla.edu/reports/it_strategic_plan_093009.pdf
3
Document: Essay 6 in UCLA’s Report for the WASC Capacity and Preparatory Review “Using Educational Technology
to Enhance Learning and Teaching”: http://www.wasc.ucla.edu/CPR_Essay6.pdf
4
Document: Report of the WASC Visiting Team for the Capacity and Preparatory Review (visit held at the University of
California, Los Angeles; October 6-8, 2008), in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the reaffirmation of accreditation
(received November 2008): http://www.wasc.ucla.edu/Visit_Team_Report.pdf
5
Website: Office of Instructional Development’s website listings for Audio Visual Services for major general classrooms:
http://www.oid.ucla.edu/units/avs/buildings
6
Document: Office of Instructional Development report on UCLA General Assignment Classroom Business Plan:
http://www.oid.ucla.edu/units/ctdm/busplan
7
Website: Classroom Design Standards: http://www.oid.ucla.edu/edtech/uclaclassrooms
8
Document: Classroom Annual Report: http://www.oid.ucla.edu/edtech/uclaclassrooms/classreports/index.html
9
Website: UCLA’s Visualization Portal is a 40-seat theater with up-to-date virtual reality technologies located on the 5th
floor of the Math Science Building. The facility is literally a portal into other times, places, and experiences:
http://www.ats.ucla.edu/portal/about_the_portal/default.htm
10
Website: College Library Information and Computing Commons (CLICC) annual student surveys:
http://staff.clicc.ucla.edu/tiki-index.php?page=SurveyResults
11
Website: College of Letters and Science Instructional Enhancement Initiative (IEI): http://www.college.ucla.edu/iei
12
Website: MyUCLA portal: http://my.ucla.edu/
13
Website: Institute for Social Research: http://www.issr.ucla.edu/
14
Website: Center for Embedded Network Sensing: http://research.cens.ucla.edu/
15
Website: Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE) is a cooperative of faculty and technologists working to
advance the existing body of computing expertise at UCLA. IDRE supports research and innovative scholarship, taking
advantage of new technologies, and encouraging interdisciplinary collaboration on new research questions:
http://www.idre.ucla.edu/about/
16
Website: Office of Instructional Development BruinCast program: http://www.oid.ucla.edu/faculty/bruincast
17
Website: Instructional Development and student surveys on BruinCasting (completed quarterly):
http://www.oid.ucla.edu/webcasts/courses/survey/report
18
Website: Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) Freshman Survey:
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/heri/cirpoverview.php
19
Data: UCLA Senior Survey, 2007: http://www.college.ucla.edu/seniorsurvey/07/
20
Website: Faculty Committee on Educational Technology (FCET): http://www.oid.ucla.edu/edtech/fcet/
21
Website: Common Collaboration and Learning Environment Initiative (CCLE) reports:
http://www.oit.ucla.edu/ccle/default.htm
22
Website: Committee on Information Technology Infrastructure (CITI) is appointed by the Executive Vice Chancellor and
committee members are academic and administrative directors responsible for business and fiscal aspects of IT
applications and infrastructure. CITI is responsible for strategic and tactical planning, operational policy, and business
and cost allocation models; for more information see: http://www.citi.oit.ucla.edu/
23
Document: Report of the WASC Visiting Team Capacity and Preparatory Review to the University of California, Los
Angeles; October 6-8, 2008), in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the reaffirmation of accreditation (received
November 2008): http://www.wasc.ucla.edu/Visit_Team_Report.pdf
24
Document: CCLE Planning Team’s five-year Implementation Plan:
http://www.oit.ucla.edu/ccle/docs/20070921_CCLE_Planning_Team_Final_Report.pdf
25
Document: CCLE Annual Report: http://www.oid.ucla.edu/publications
26
Data: Survey results from students and faculty respondents in CCLE managed courses (2009):
http://www.wasc.ucla.edu/eer_endnotes/CCLE_Survey.pdf
27
Website: UCLA Center for Digital Humanities: http://www.cdh.ucla.edu/
28
Comment: Introduction to Statistical Reasoning (5 units): lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour; computer
laboratory, two hours. Preparation: three years of high school mathematics. Introduction to statistical thinking and
understanding, including strengths and limitations of basic experimental designs, graphical and numerical summaries of
data, inference, regression as descriptive tool. P/NP or letter grading.
29
Website: UCLA Library Information Literacy Program: http://www.library.ucla.edu/service/6342.cfm
30
Document and Website: For more information about Freshman Clusters, see Essay 4 of UCLA’s Capacity report:
http://www.wasc.ucla.edu/CPR_Essay4.pdf and the website for the UCLA Freshman Cluster Program:
http://www.college.ucla.edu/ge/clusters/index.html
31
Comment: To prepare for this study, the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education sent a team to the WASC Retreat
on Student Learning and Assessment, Oct 18 - 20, 2007. The topic the team discussed was "Information Literacy and
Freshman Clusters" and the UCLA team included: Alison Armstrong, Director of Undergraduate Initiatives; Cheryl Bartel,
Interim Head, Research, Instruction & Collection Services, Biomedical Library; Jeffrey Decker, Instructional Coordinator,
Freshman Cluster Program; Adjunct Associate Professor of English Joanne Damon Rodriguez, Professor of Public
Affairs and Coordinator of the Cluster on Frontiers in Human Aging: Biomedical, Social, and Policy Perspective; Amy
Fann, Post Doctoral Scholar, Center for Educational Assessment; Esther Grassian, Interim Head College Library; and
Marc Levis-Fitzgerald, Director, Center for Educational Assessment.
32
Website: Road to Research, online tutorial offered by the UCLA Library for undergraduate students:
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/library/tutorial.php
33
Document: Report of a two-year study conducted by the Center of Educational Assessment, Division of Undergraduate
Education (September 2009) assessing the information literacy skills of freshmen in interdisciplinary Cluster courses :
http://www.wasc.ucla.edu/eer_endnotes/Info_Lit_Report.pdf