Official Memo at: http://www.provost.utoronto.ca/public/pdadc/2012_to_2013/29.htm. We are pleased to announce the recent acquisition of Bb Collaborate software as an institutional Webinar/Webconferencing solution. Collaborate allows for the creation of live (synchronous) “virtual” classrooms and meetings, where participants can remotely access audio, video, presentations, whiteboards, live polling and shared desktops, among other features. Virtual rooms have been gaining … Read More

Memo also  available on-line at http://www.provost.utoronto.ca/public/pdadc/2012_to_2013/13.htm PDAD&C#13, 2012-13 To:     PDAD&C From:   Dr. Avi Hyman, Director, Academic & Collaborative Technologies Date:   September 21, 2012 Re:     Acquisition of an institutional Lecture Capture and Live Webcasting solution We are pleased to announce the recent acquisition of Echo360 software as an institutional Lecture/Video Capture and Live Webcasting solution. Echo360 … Read More

From:   Cheryl Misak, Vice-President and Provost I am pleased to announce that funding is available for the next round of the ITIF (formerly the Instructional Technology Course Development Fund or ITCDF). The ITIF is a fund which promotes technologies designed to improve teaching. It is funded by the Provost and administered by Academic & Collaborative … Read More

A note from Jeremy Graham, Manager, Learning Systems Operations “Hi All. I don’t know whether it’s common knowledge that we’ll be adding a considerable amount of new storage to the Portal infrastructure over the course of the summer. This is driven by a few things, primary among which, of course, is that user content on … Read More

We are very pleased to announce that the University of Toronto has joined the Liberated Learning Consortium as its newest partner in the effort to increase access to information through the advancement of speech recognition (SR) technologies. The Liberated Learning Consortium was founded to research and develop two interrelated applications: (1) using speech recognition technology … Read More

Follow up: Thank you to everyone providing feedback on the changes. You can send them to me directly at ajhyman(at)utoronto.dot.ca  (sorry for writing it out this way; trying to avoid blog bots from scraping my address). Please keep in mind that the changes were made to the default. You can continue to click the Personalize … Read More

Just a quick update to let you know that rather than deploying a single institutional audience response system for this coming September, we will instead be conducting several pilots of different AR systems, both traditional hardware solutions, as well as mobile device systems. If you are interested in this, please write to us at ati … Read More

The U of T Sustainability Office offers a green course recognition program. You can earn a green course logo to use on your website or syllabus.   The Green Courses Recognition Program was launched to recognize courses where extra steps have been taken to reduce environmental impacts (e.g. double-siding course documents). This year, the focus … Read More

Please distribute widely MEMORANDUM   Date:   June 8, 2011  To:     The University of Toronto Community   From:   Avi Hyman, Academic Technology Initiatives Re:     Provost’s Instructional Technology Innovation Fund (ITIF) 2011 SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENSION: July 22, 2011 Several members of our community were concerned that the timelines for preparing and submitting a proposal for the ITIF were too … Read More

Please distribute widely. MEMORANDUM To:     Principals, Deans, Academic Directors & Chairs All Faculty Professional and Managerial Staff Educational Technology Staff Date:   June 8, 2011 From:   Cheryl Misak, Vice-President and Provost Re:     Provost’s Instructional Technology Innovation Fund (ITIF) 2011 I am pleased to announce that funding is available for a new round of the ITIF (formerly … Read More