Learning Sciences
Teaching Initiatives
Phillip D. Long, Ph.D.,
Assoc. Vice Provost
Learning Sciences
Clinical Prof. Ed Psych & the
iSchool
Office of the Provost
Project 2021
Learning Sciences
Learning Sciences
The CTL for the 21st Century
Faculty Dev
&
Learning
Design
Research,
Evaluation
& Learning
Analytics
Project
Mgmt
Learning
Tools
Learning
Technology
Architecture
Learning Sciences
The Current Landscape
Photo credit : Texas Hill Country, Jerry and Pat Donhoe, https://www.flickr.com/photos/donahos/ CC by-nc-nd
Learning Sciences
Canvas by Instructure is the UT at
Austin’s primary LMS
The CIGs support faculty enhancing the
quality of student learning experiences
across UT.
UT Austin’s 15 MOOCs on edX are an
pilot in learning @ scale sharing the
quality UT courses & faculty to the world
Enhance inter-disciplinary faculty
collaboration & support faculty-led
projects to improve teaching & learning.
Teaching Discovery &
Innovation
Becoming
a College
Teacher
Faculty Support
Engagement with the New Faculty
Orientation, CIS Working Group &
Faculty Innovation Working Group
The Graduate Student Initiative
provides opportunities to advance
graduate students’ pedagogical,
academic & professional
progress.
Faculty peer observation, peer
& group assessment,
blended/experiential learning
…. & more
Learning Sciences
The Road Ahead
Photo credit: Tommy Clark, https://www.flickr.com/photos/tommyscapes/, CC by-nc-nd
Learning Sciences
Learning
Analytics
• Canvas Data Warehouse
• Learning Analytics Workbench
(based on Project Jupyter)
• Course Reports
Faculty Support
• Learning design
• Personal learning pathways
Adaptive Learning •
CMS
infrastructure
Personal learning pathways
• Machine learning
discovery/retrieval of faculty
content
• Flexible content sharing
Learning Sciences
Tool Guides
• What can I plug into Canvas?
• Applications by function?
OERs
• Open textbooks w/ UTL
• Open apps e.g, Scalar
(semantic web authoring)
Adaptive
formative
assessment
• Adaptive spaced practice
New Academic Leadership
Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at 10:01 AM
“Dear faculty, staff and students:
I am pleased to announce that Dr. Maurie McInnis of the
University of Virginia has accepted my offer to serve as UT's
new executive vice president and provost. Dr. McInnis was
clearly the top candidate in an extensive national search. She
begins her appointment as provost-designate immediately
and assumes the role of provost July 1, 2016...
Sincerely,
Gregory L. Fenves
President
http://provost.virginia.edu/people/mdm6n
WordPress Blog site
Upcoming Events
Year of Open, 2016
A partnership between UT Libraries & Learning Sciences
Presentations:
• Randy Bass, VPA Georgetown U
• John Ionnidis, Stanford Med School
• Clifford Lynch, Exec. Dir. CNI
Project 2021 – UT Future(s)
a 5-year time-delimited project promoting
change in the ways we connect with students
in and out of the traditional classroom.
Led by Prof. James Pennebaker, Exec. Dir. &
Special Advisor to the Provost on
Educational Innovation
Learning design examples that provide more
feedback than the ‘plural of anecdote’
Degree modernization
Image reflects Open Calais
content map for the first
half of Haruki Murakami's
short story 'Hanalei Bay',
which was published in the
Guardian in 2006.
Photo credit: Jer Thorp,
https://www.flickr.com/phot
os/blprnt/, CC-by-nd
Thank you
Contact for Canvas Support
24x7 Phone Support with Canvas
+1 512-475-9400 (select #1 Faculty, #1 Canvas LMS)
+1 855-308-2494
Pedagogical Support: canvasid@utlists.utexas.edu
Appointments: http://canvas.utexas.edu/appointments/
Phil Long, PhD
Associate Vice Provost, Learning
Sciences
Phone: (512) 475-6702
Office: SZB 450V
Contact for Faculty Support:
Josh Walker, Ph. D.
Phone: +1 512 232 2651
Email: josh.walker@austin.utexas.edu
Karron Lewis, Ph.D.
Phone: +1 512 232 1776
Email: kglewis@austin.utexas.edu
Contact for Graduate Students:
Molly Hatcher , Ph.D.,
Phone: +1 512 232-5181
Email:
Email: phil.long@austin.utexas.edu