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Consulting

CITES Educational Technologies (EdTech) utilizes a collaborative consulting approach to meet the needs of faculty, staff, and students. EdTech provides trained experts to focus on the more individualized and unique pedagogical uses of technology needs for instructors. This enhanced approach of traditional training looks at how the EdTech Consultants, along with faculty and other staff, form learning technology teams that produce the most successful outcomes using the online learning and teaching systems.

The Educational Technologies team:

  • Identifies the pedagogical goals of instructors.
  • Discusses instructor’s teaching style.
  • Determines the technology most useful to meet needs.
  • Provides coaching to design classes for optimal student learning.
  • Helps instructors learn appropriate technologies.
  • Implements the technology for classes.
  • Builds collaborative teams by connecting faculty to appropriate campus resources and experts.
  • Works to enhance student learning outcomes.
  • Evaluates the effectiveness of the technology tool in classroom learning.

Benefits

  • Receive free service and support.
  • Increase options for managing your instruction time and student contact.
  • Achieve pedagogical goals.
  • Gain support for large numbers of students in classes.
  • Assist large section courses with distribution of materials and automation of class management tasks.
  • Design and develop a platform for cooperative learning experiences.

Software Applications

Frequently, EdTech provides one-on-one consultations with users who want to integrate other software applications into their classes, including:

  • Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
  • Adobe Photoshop and Acrobat
  • Adobe (formerly Macromedia) Flash and Dreamweaver
  • Apple iLife Suite: iMovie, iPhoto, Garageband, etc.
  • Podcasting and other Web 2.0 technologies
  • Other software as requested

Approach

One-on-One
A Training Specialist or Computer Assisted Instruction Specialist (CAIS) meet face-to-face with a Teaching Assistant (TA), faculty, or staff member.

Team
Faculty, TA's, Research Assistants (RA), and staff members are trained as a group by a Training Specialist or CAIS.

Request a Consult

One-on-One and Team Training
To reserve a seat, email us at edtech@uiuc.edu, or call (217) 244-7000.

Evaluation

It is vitally important that we evaluate the effectiveness of the training and the value of the teaching and learning systems. We ask that you take 5 minutes of your time to complete the online training evaluation immediately after instruction.