Over the past several months, a number of primary stakeholders participated in a consultative process around the idea of creating a comprehensive mobile strategy at UofT. Out of those conversations a proposal has been developed (below), and through the circulation of this document we are furthering the opportunity for interested members of the community to … Read More

My colleague, Laurie Harrison, Director of Online Learning Strategies for the University of Toronto, has started a new blog about Online Learning Strategies! Check it out at: http://onlinelearning.utoronto.ca/ ____________________________________________________________

This item is based on a conversation at Ontario Universities’ Council on e-Learning (OUCEL) Summer Institute (Conference site: http://kumu.brocku.ca/oucel/Summer_Institute_2011 ) (Conference Twitter Flow: http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#oucel11) Are your school’s website & apps (including your LMS) accessible? Here are some links: http://idrc.ocad.ca/ http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/html/source/regs/english/2011/elaws_src_regs_r11191_e.htmhttp://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag http://achecker.ca/checker/ http://fluidproject.org/ http://adod.idrc.ocad.ca/ http://www.youtube.com/wat​ch?v=YHXSWQvV39k http://gpii.net/ http://www.universalsubtit​les.org/en/ __________

There is a growing literature on Bring Your Own Technology / Bring Your Own Device (BYOT/BYOD). Does your school have a policy? Best practices? Here are some recent links on the topic: http://www.times-georgian.com/view/full_story/14778636/article-BYOT–New-high-school-will-pilot–Bring-Your-Own-Technology–program?instance=west_ga_news http://blog.lightspeedsystems.com/joel/tag/bring-your-own-devices/ http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Case-Studies/The-Multigenerational-Workforce-BYOD-at-Unisys-670371/ http://blog.lightspeedsystems.com/joel/tag/bring-your-own-devices/ Please let me know if you have other good reading sources for the BYOT/BYOD topic. __________

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

In the intervening six years since the last institutional conversation about Audience Response Systems (‘clickers’), much has changed technologically, even for our current default supplier, i<Clicker. As a result, the University is undertaking a review of audience response solutions and has initiated a project to settle on a university-wide standard solution. It is hoped that … Read More

From Laurie Harrison, Director IT, OISE/UT, and Project Manager, Online Courses Pilot, Office of the Provost: Online Teaching Resources: http://www.teaching.utoronto.ca/topics/teachingcontexts/online-learning.htm Includes an Instructor Toolkit, available services, and examples of innovative teaching practices. __________

Below is a link to a working document containing a running list of suggested lecture capture functionality for the University of Toronto. It is a work in progress and represents only thoughts so far (based on extensive conversations). If you have anything to add, please send it to us at <ati @ utoronto.ca> (remove the … Read More

We are starting to look at a new topic, and we’d like to hear from anyone interested … form scanning (a.k.a. Scantron services). So far we have identified 7 departments at UofT that have form scanners that are primarily used for academic purposes (test scoring, evaluations, etc.). A number of issues have arisen, and we … Read More