{"id":9693,"date":"2015-07-17T11:02:55","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T15:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/?p=9693"},"modified":"2015-07-17T11:43:06","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T15:43:06","slug":"teaching-and-learning-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/2015\/07\/17\/teaching-and-learning-technologies\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching & Learning Technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The “Faculty Services” moniker is no more. We are now Teaching & Learning Technologies.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of the challenges with a team named “Faculty Services” is that the name\u00a0doesn’t adequately describe what the team actually does.\u00a0Obviously, there are many teams within LITS that provide services for faculty, and the services that our\u00a0team provides are used by staff and students as well. To that end, I’m happy to report that the “Faculty Services” moniker\u00a0is no more and we are now Teaching & Learning Technologies<\/em>.<\/p>\n

My hope is that the new name will be more specific and descriptive about the services we provide and will better tell our customers what we do and where our expertise lies. Within the team will be four different groups, each with a clearer set of directives:<\/p>\n

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  • Learning Management\u00a0<\/strong>will continue to support faculty in the use of\u00a0Blackboard and to administer that system, as well as assessing and supporting the Canvas pilot (more on that to come in the near future).<\/li>\n
  • Instructional Technology<\/strong>\u00a0is focused on support in a variety of disciplines, including instructional technology and design, electronic publishing and Web\/social media.<\/li>\n
  • Academic Production<\/strong> will focus on video production, primarily for deployment on the Coursera platform, but also building best practices for academic\u00a0video content\u00a0on campus.<\/li>\n
  • Software Distribution<\/strong>\u00a0focuses on the management of electronic software distribution.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    The intent of the new name\u00a0and organizational will not only improve the\u00a0way we communicate our service offerings to our customers, but will also\u00a0prepare us to offer greater\u00a0innovation and support\u00a0in the future. The change will take effect in Service Now in early next week, and all services currently in the Faculty Services queue will be in the Teaching & Learning Technologies queue. The change will percolate through other systems in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    One of the challenges with a team named “Faculty Services” is that the name\u00a0doesn’t adequately describe what the team actually does.\u00a0Obviously, there are many teams within LITS that provide services for faculty, and the services that our\u00a0team provides are used by staff and students as well. To that end, I’m happy to report that the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":9744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[182,384],"class_list":["post-9693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-staff-bytes","tag-faculty-services","tag-teaching-learning-technologies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9693"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9760,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9693\/revisions\/9760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}