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ACADEMIC TECHNOLOGY
Academic Technology helps UW-Madison faculty and instructional staff maximize their effectiveness through the use of technology. Our team of consultants, designers, programmers, graphic artists and multimedia developers provide a continuum of services, from simple troubleshooting to designing complex online courses.

CONTACT: Kathy Christoph

CENTER FOR BIOLOGY EDUCATION (CBE)
The CBE's mission is the improvement of college and precollege biology education at all levels. The Undergraduate Coordinators focus on teaching and learning at the university level: both in courses and in undergraduate research experiences. CBE helps faculty/staff through providing information and resources as well as opportunities for sharing the results of experiments in teaching (e.g. workshops, brownbags, and teaching circles). See our webpage for information on how to participate.

CONTACT: Lillian Tong

CENTER FOR INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS AND COMPUTING (CIMC)
Although the Center for Instructional Materials and Computing's primary area of emphasis is PreK-12 teacher education, this teaching and learning center contains many resources in support of faculty development. Many monographs and journals in the CIMC collection provide information on the art and aims of college teaching.  CIMC staff provide reference assistance to search education databases, and provide instructional technology services and assistance across SoE programs and disciplines.

CONTACT: Jo Ann Carr, Director

CENTER FOR THE INTEGRATION OF RESEARCH, TEACHING, AND LEARNING
CIRTL is a National Science Foundation Center for Learning and Teaching launched in January 2003. CIRTL is a collaboration of STEM and higher education researchers at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, Michigan State University, and Pennsylvania State University. CIRTL will develop a national faculty in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) committed to implementing and advancing effective teaching practices for diverse student audiences as part of their professional careers.

CONTACT: Robert Mathieu, Director

CLASSROOM MEDIA SUPPORT (CMS)
Site contains a wealth of information regarding the classrooms supported by the Space Management Office and a variety of other information regarding classrooms and equipment. Includes a regularly updated list of multimedia classrooms.

CONTACT: Derek Dombrowski

UW DEAN OF STUDENTS WEB SITE
Lori Berquam, Dean of Students at UW-Madison, has a number of resources for faculty and staff including a powerpoint presentation about today's college students that she gave for the CALS Instructional Improvement committee Brownbag. John Parrish, co-chair of the CALS Instr. Impr. Comm., has the video of the talk and discussion.

DELTA
The Delta Program is a teaching and learning community for graduate students, post-docs and faculty that will help current and future faculty succeed in the changing landscape of science, engineering, and math higher education. Through the Teaching-as-research idea, the Delta program will support current and future science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) faculty in their ongoing improvement of student learning.

CONTACT: Chris Carlson-Dakes

ENGINEERING LEARNING CENTER, COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING (ELC)
The ELC serves faculty, staff, graduate students, undergraduate students, and administrators. It is designed to foster effective student-centered teaching and learning within the College of Engineering. Objectives: (1) Provide professional development opportunities and resources for instructors and students; (2) Facilitate connections for other units that support teaching and learning; and (3) Help build a culture of continuous improvement in undergraduate and graduate education.

CONTACT: Sandy Courter

HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE (HHMI) NEW GENERATION PROGRAM
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute program contributes to the enhancement of science education through the development and implementation of new teaching tools based on well-founded pedagogical principles and by training teachers who are adept at using these tools. These initiatives build upon previous work in science education with undergraduate learners and graduate and postgraduate teachers and expand the target student population to the general public through web-based active learning.

CONTACT: Jo Handelsman

INNOVATION IN TEACHING: BROWNBAG SERIES
The CALS Instructional Improvement Committee in partnership with the Center for Biology Education sponsors a brownbag lunch series spotlighting CALS departments and biological sciences departments across campus to share creative ways to solve teaching/learning challenges. A series, "Innovation in Teaching: Novel Approaches to Knotty Problems- Spotlight on Departments," has summaries by instructors archived on our website, indexed by the problem, solution, and department. A second series, "Innovation in Teaching: Developing Teamwork and Interpersonal Skills," has a website with materials from presentations. All UW-Madison Faculty/staff/students are invited to join the listserve that is used to announce brownbags

CONTACT: Lillian Tong

INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL EDUCATION (ICE)
ICE was established in 1983 to provide a center for science educators to develop and disseminate ideas. ICE is national in scope, and has led the drive to help teachers revitalize science in schools throughout the United States. Its efforts include the development of new materials, research in chemical education, demonstrations and hands-on activities, workshops for teachers, lab programs for school children, and dissemination via a variety of publications.

CONTACT: John Moore, Director

INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA DEVELOPMENT CENTER (IMDC)
The IMDC is a design, development, production and distribution facility within the UW-Madison's School of Education. The IMDC is a comprehensive resource for a wide range of instructional technology used in the production, dissemination and support of educational materials. The IMDC's professional staff has specialized skills in all aspects of instructional media production. They are equipped and professionally staffed for distance education using compressed video, satellite teleconferencing and live or taped cablecast telecourses. Services are on a cost-recovery basis.

CONTACT: IMDC email

LEARNING TECHNOLOGY AND DISTANCE EDUCATION (LTDE)
The mission of LTDE is "to lead in the improvement of teaching and learning through the integration of appropriate technologies and methodologies." Services offered include instructional systems consultation, learning technology events and workshops, instructional systems evaluation, consultation on instructional aspects of classroom design, learning technology liaison, and instructional systems design.

CONTACT: LTDE Email

LEARNING THROUGH EVALUATION, ADAPTATION, AND DISSEMINATION (LEAD)
Since 1994, the Learning through Evaluation, Adaptation, and Dissemination (LEAD) Center has worked with faculty and program administrators at UW-Madison and nationwide to evaluate the impact and improve the strategies of hundreds of educational programs. Its mission is to provide high-quality formative and summative evaluation for programs in education, technology, health, and social services. LEAD's experienced staff of evaluators with backgrounds in anthropology, psychology, and sociology is nationally-renowned for its third-party evaluations of academic programs, educational technology, educational equity projects, and curricular improvements for both higher education and K-12.

CONTACT: Julie Foertsch

LEARNING SUPPORT SERVICES (LSS)
Although LSS is a service department of the College of Letters and Sciences, it has a number of services available to all faculty/staff. LSS maintains an extensive collection of videos, including many which were formerly housed in BAVI. For anyone teaching in Van Hise, LSS supplies audio visual equipment for loan. For a fee, some video production services are available to non-L&S faculty. For L&S faculty/staff, many other services are available. (see webpage). An emphasis on helping faculty in using technology for teaching has resulted in several new programs.

CONTACT: Read Gilgen

LIBRARY AND INFORMATION LITERACY INSTRUCTION PROGRAM
Librarians can work with you to develop customized instructional sessions, tutorials, or course Web pages on sources, research strategies, and skills related to a particular discipline, class project or assignment. Click here for more information about scheduling a session.

MEDAL FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS (Medical Education Development And Leadership)
Two faculty development programs are offered this year to medical school faculty--one on fundamental teaching skills and one on program leadership. Each program meets for one afternoon a month during the academic year. Please see the on-line brochure for details and meeting dates.

CONTACT: Craig Gjerde

MORGRIDGE CENTER FOR PUBLIC SERVICE
The Morgridge Center for Public Service advances the Wisconsin Idea by promoting civic engagement, strengthening teaching and learning, and building collaborative partnerships through public service, service-learning, and community-based research.

CONTACT: Mary Rouse

NEW FACULTY WORKSHOP SERIES
The Office of the Secretary of the Faculty/New Faculty Services and the Office of the Provost collaborate to provide an orientation and workshop series for new and untenured faculty. Workshops are designed to convey information about institutional policies, processes, and resources that will enable participants to build successful careers at the UW-Madison. The series includes sessions on resources for research and graduate education, information and instructional technology, teaching and learning, and the tenure process."

CONTACT: Lindsey Stoddard-Cameron

NEW MEDIA CENTERS
The New Media Centers provide free access and assistance to the hardware and software you need to incorporate multimedia and graphics into your teaching and research. The New Media Centers are for UW-Madison faculty and staff working on University projects.

The Biology New Media Center provides resources to assist the campus community in integrating multimedia technology into teaching and research. Operating as a joint venture of UW Biotechnology Center, Center for Biology Education and the Division of Information Technology (DoIT), the BNMC's professional instructional and research staff are here to help you.

CONTACT: Dan LaValley, Manager

The College Library New Media Center in Helen C. White contains the same equipment and staff support to develop instructional research materials using new technologies but lacks the discipline-specific focus and the equipment-for-loan program.

CONTACT: Dave Luke, Manager

QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT PROJECT
Since its inception in 1990, the Quantitative Assessment Project at UW-Madison has attempted to identify the quantitative skills required of upper level undergraduates across campus and to assess the extent to which students have those skills at the start of their junior-level course work. The project has thus studied the match between faculty expectations and the quantitative capabilities of emerging juniors. The program involves an assessment of the quantitative skills required of students prior to starting upper level courses. Recently, the Quantitative Assessment Program has taken on the responsibility of assessing the effectiveness of the new general education requirements at UW.

CONTACT: Joel Robbin

SCHOOL OF NURSING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
This Center provides instructional technology facilities, resources, and support for faculty, staff, and students in the School of Nursing. Facilities include audio graphics and videoconferencing classrooms, a student computer lab, and group and individual viewing rooms for audiovisual materials.

CONTACT: Suzanne Harris

TESTING AND EVALUATION SERVICES (T&E)
Testing & Evaluation Services is an instructional support service which provides high speed test scoring and instructional evaluation services. Staff in T&E can help with development and analysis of course examinations and course evaluation questionnaires. There is no charge for these services for instructional users. A small charge is required for non-instructional applications. T&E also administers several national testing programs. T&E also houses the UW Center for Placement Testing. The Center develops and administers the placement tests for all UW System institutions. In addition, the Center conducts research on these tests for each institution in the System.

CONTACT: Charlene Tortorice, Associate Director

VERBAL ASSESSMENT PROJECT
DESCRIPTION: The mission of the Verbal Assessment Project is to provide insight into how general education communication courses are affecting the associated abilities, knowledge, and attitudes of the UW student population. Rather than assess particular faculty or students, the Verbal Assessment Project is designed to evaluate the match between general education course outcomes and program objectives.

CONTACT: Denise Solomon

WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM (WAC)
WAC encourages faculty in all disciplines to use writing activities that help students learn the subject matter of a course. WAC staff sponsors faculty and TA workshops on designing effective assignments and responding efficiently to student writing, develops workshops for individual departments, consults individually with faculty about the writing component of their courses, publishes a sourcebook for instructors teaching Communication-B and Writing-Intensive courses, publishes a WAC newsletter, and maintains an extensive Web site with advice and samples for faculty from across campus. Although based in the College of Letters and Science, the staff is glad to work with faculty across the campus.

CONTACT: Brad Hughes

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INACTIVE PROGRAMS

NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE EDUCATION (NISE)
NISE was funded by the National Science Foundation and was based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It confronted head-on the challenge of improving science and mathematics education in the schools, from kindergarten through graduate school, and continues to serve as a resource for teaching and learning even though NISE itself is no longer active.

CONTACT: Paula White

NEW TRADITIONS PROJECT IN CHEMISTRY
This NSF-funded initiative was completed several years ago. It developed strategies to promote student learning by creating a paradigm shift from faculty-centered to student-centered learning throughout the chemistry curriculum. The project's results are now being disseminated through the Multi-Initiative Dissemination Project (MID), about which more information is available at
http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/~midp/index.html?main.html&1

OFFICE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (OMERD)
OMERD had four components: faculty development, standardized patients, assessment, and research and evaluation. It offered a certificate program, workshops and faculty consultation on educational topics, recruited and trained simulated patients for student education, scored and reported results from written examinations, managed logistics for performance examinations, administered student evaluations of courses, managed a longitudinal data base, administered an educational research grants program and provided support for faculty applying for and receiving extramural support. Although OMERD is no longer active, its web site is still available as a resource.