The Academic Technology Services (ATS) team is excited to announce the launch of our new blog, Extra Points: Level up your Digital Teaching. Our team is responsible for nurturing and maintaining the digital learning ecosystem, a complex intersection of people, tools, and processes. This new blog will be a platform for our team to share insights, practices, and ideas about digital teaching at the University of Minnesota and the broader arena of higher education. Our posts will present pedagogically-tested digital teaching strategies, share tips to strengthen course design, explore tools to use in your teaching practice, and report on cross-institutional collaborations at the University of Minnesota.
Extra Points will complement the Teaching with Technology newsletter with in-depth exploration of topics delivered on a flexible publishing cadence. If you’re an instructor, academic support staff, technologist, or instructional designer, Extra Points will have:
- advice on effective use of technology in teaching,
- in-depth recaps of ATS online sessions,
- investigations of academic technology topics and tools, and
- information about pilots, products, and collaborations with peer institutions.