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Impact

The Center for the Advancement of Teaching Excellence — CATE — has focused on 3 major areas. 1: Instructor teaching development & professional learning. 2: Graduate student & postdoc professional development. 3: Learning technologies & systems.

INSTRUCTOR TEACHING DEVELOPMENT & PROFESSIONAL LEARNING

OUTREACH & COMMUNICATION
  • 11 newsletters sent
  • 31,334 Total CATE website users
RESOURCES & PROGRAMS
  • 9 new Teaching Guides
  • 201 total Consultations supporting teaching, instructional design, and multimedia
  • 69 workshops delivered with 575 unique participants representing 128 departments
WORKSHOP FEEDBACK

“The content and flow of the sessions were well thought out and engaging.”

  • 100% of participants were somewhat to very likely to apply the teaching practices they learned to their future teaching

“Small group activities were well structured and yet flexible enough for the group to make it our own.”

CREATIVE & MULTIMEDIA SERVICES
  • 145 Videos Produced
  • 83 Multimedia Lab Walk-in Consultations
  • 376 Multimedia Lab Equipment Checkouts

GRADUATE STUDENT & POSTDOC PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

ANNUAL CAMPUSWIDE NEW TA ORIENTATION
  • 433 unique participants via Zoom in Fall 2021
  • 82% of survey respondents recommend the orientation to future new TAs
  • 325 attendees participated in an interactive workshop on teaching
  • 400+ people have registered for the on-campus orientation on August 17, 2022

“The whole event was very well organized and presented. I liked the emphasis on diversity and inclusion at UIC. It made me excited to help support the university’s mission.”

FOCI
  • Relaunched the Foundations of College Instruction (FOCI) program
  • new three-course series earns certificate
CIRTL@UIC
  • 9 monthly newsletters sent to UIC community of future faculty
  • 72 unique participants in 10 learning communities and workshops this past year
  • 52 UIC community member participants attended online CIRTL Network programs
  • 204 total participants in 7 workshops and info sessions requested by UIC departments

LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES & SYSTEMS

LEARNING SPACES

UIC Classroom Database:

  • Classroom upgrade project is putting streaming and recording technology in all
    of the 187 centrally-managed classrooms, and in 276 college-managed learning spaces
LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES

New Classroom Tech Support Program:

  • 20+ students providing proactive in-classroom AV and Ed Tech support
  • 13,490 total Tech Support Services tickets resolved
EDTECH INFRASTRUCTURE

New Learning Applications:

Data Project:

  • UIC LMS Data Universe available in the university data warehouse (EDW)
  • Featured in 2022 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report