Statistics assistant professor Rich Ross and chemistry lecturer Alicia Frantz are among nearly 550 instructors finding Gradescope to be an essential addition to their teaching toolkits.
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Using new software is no exception – our faculty have changed their approach to many standard pedagogical practices and will likely retain these innovations long after the pandemic is over.” “But we have found that this has led to faculty innovation, too. “The University invested in these technologies to help faculty make the best of a necessary situation during the pandemic: a lot of online course instruction,” Magill said. Instructors have taken advantage of these new or recently expanded technologies to improve assessment and evaluation processes and increase student engagement and collaboration. (More information on these tools and the rest of UVA’s digital catalog can be found on the Learning Tech website, another new initiative that launched ahead of the fall semester.) This summer, Executive Vice President and Provost Liz Magill and Chief Information Officer Virginia Evans invested in licenses for seven learning technologies: Digication, Gradescope, Hypothesis, MATLAB Grader, Peerceptiv, Poll Everywhere and VoiceThread. To help with these efforts, faculty and graduate students now have easy access to a host of new technologies to enhance teaching and learning. With many University of Virginia courses going online this pandemic year, instructors needed to find alternative, innovative ways to manage their classrooms and keep students engaged. This article has been cross-posted from the Learning Tech blog and appeared in UVA Today Wednesday, December 9, 2020.
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