In the Fall of 2012 ETS participated in an eText pilot sponsored by the Office of the CIO, in conjunction with Educause and Internet2, to evaluate the value and use of eContent in UC Berkeley courses. McGrawHill provided the eTextbooks for students and Courseload provided the software used to access them. 14 courses and 11 different faculty participated in the pilot from a range of disciplines including college writing, business, engineering, math, history, and statistics. Over 650 students in participating courses were given the eText for free for the semester.
March 25, 2013
March 6, 2013
Berkeley’s new Instructional Design and Faculty Support (IDFS) group is a community of practice on campus that brings together instructional designers and faculty support staff who share common interests and strategies for addressing professional opportunities.* The group currently includes staff from ETS, the Law School, the Library, the Center for Teaching and Learning, EECS, and the Student Learning Center.
Since November, we have met monthly to get acquainted, brainstorm topics of interest and to delve deep into a topic that we all want to learn more about.
March 5, 2013
February 13, 2013
ETS staff have received a steady stream of questions about Canvas, CalCentral and the longevity of bSpace.We'd like to answer a few of those questions here.
What is Canvas?
Instructure’s Canvas is a Learning Management System (LMS) that ETS plans to pilot later this Spring and Summer. We see it as the eventual successor to bSpace course sites.
January 28, 2013
This semester two of ETS’ instructional designers are offering new workshops to meet the high demand for new media education. As faculty and students seek to use a growing list of new media technologies, Bobby White and Sage Adams are responding in new and creative ways.
January 1, 2012
ETS no longer provides 35mm slide projection equipment for loan and in general assignment classrooms. If you are planning on displaying 35mm slides, you do have a couple of options.
All of our technology classrooms have installed data/video projectors. Digital images may be displayed from your laptop using a classroom projector. You may wish to have your slides digitized in order to view them from your laptop. Here are a few service providers:
January 1, 2009
A list of local vendors offering tape, disc and other media duplication and transfer services.
Acutrack
350 Sonic Ave., Livermore 925-579-5000, 888-234-3472
http://www.acutrack.com
CD/DVD replication and duplication
Audio-Restorations
5779 De Soto Dr., Santa Rosa 800-894-0830
http://www.audio-restorations.com