Teaching and Learning Technologies
The instructional computing component of Information Technology at Purdue, the Teaching and Learning Technologies (TLT) unit, supports, empowers, and advances the innovative and evolving use of technology to facilitate learning. TLT operates facilities in its efforts, as well—instructional computing laboratories, specialized technology in classrooms, the Assistive Technology Center, and the Digital Learning Collaboratory. TLT includes four major areas:
Enterprise Learning Technologies
- Develops, supports, and integrates enterprise level technology applications that extend teaching and learning beyond the traditional classroom
- Provides infrastructure support to the University’s computer labs and provides applications to students for their use through Software Remote
Informatics
- Designs and develops custom Web applications
- Offers planning, design, development, and implementation of Web sites
- Provides tools that enable Web content management and search capabilities
Instructional Development Center
- Offers faculty custom training and consulting in a variety of software and instructional technologies and in instructional development
- Offers professional consulting to train faculty in integrating multimedia content into their curriculum
- Supplies funding that promotes faculty research to use technologies that support instruction
- Administers an annual grant program for faculty’s instructional needs
- Conducts student competitions to recognize excellence in digital content and production
- Provides custom training sessions for students through Undergraduate Training @ Purdue (UT@P), the IDC’s talented staff of undergraduate technology trainers.
Learning Spaces
- Provides and maintains interactive systems and applications, computer lab and classroom technologies, and mobile and virtual learning environments.
Current initiatives and services
- IDC’s Consulting and Training
The Instructional Development Center (IDC), a division of TLT, has a staff of educational technologists who offer consulting and training to faculty and staff in the integration of technology into course development, software and other technologies, and instructional design. - Digital Content Development Grants
The goal of this funding program is to select and help implement projects that increase instructional effectiveness through the use of digital and online technology. The IDC, which offers this program, seeks to cultivate instructional excellence through experimentation with new ideas, teaching methods, and technologies. Submitted projects should strive to enhance the quality of instruction at Purdue. - IDC Distance Education Incentive Awards Program
The goal of this program is to provide support and award Purdue faculty for the development of high-quality distance education courses at Purdue University – West Lafayette. All faculty and staff at the West Lafayette campus and the Statewide Technology sites are eligible. Courses submitted to the program must be developed and delivered as distance education courses from a learning management system platform, such as Blackboard Vista. Hybrid or blended classes are not eligible. - IDC Tips & Techniques Newsletter
This periodic e-newsletter, produced by IDC’s ed techs, offers detailed articles on new and popular technologies, reminders of upcoming training sessions, and updates from vendors, to name a few. This is an opt-in publication. - GoldAnswers
Whether you're looking for information on Windows Vista, Blackboard Vista or both, you can use GoldAnswers to find articles that offer definitions, step-by-step instructions or troubleshooting. With more than 3,600 articles in ITaP's extensive knowledge base-and more added every day-users can find helpful information on almost any ITaP service. - Purdue Mobile Learning Initiative
ITaP has partnered with Hewlett-Packard and Apple to offer professional-level laptops to Purdue faculty, students, and staff. Students receive a high-quality laptop loaded with a more complete software package, and, most importantly, guaranteed on-campus service and support. - Undergraduate Training @ Purdue (UT@P)
UT@P provides custom training sessions for students within classes by the IDC’s talented staff of undergraduate technology trainers.
TLT events
- Digital Cinema Contest
The Digital Cinema Contest is an exciting annual event for Purdue students to develop and produce video or animations. Entries are judged on all elements of development and production, including narrative, technical components, and integration of information resources. The contest culminates in a final public screening and awards ceremony. - Best Practices with Teaching and Technology
ITaP and the Center for Instructional Excellence (CIE) sponsor these seminars in a relaxed setting where faculty members describe the different ways they use technology in their teaching. - TLT Annual Conference
The annual Teaching and Learning with Technology conference provides a forum for networking, discussing, demonstrating and learning about innovative ways of incorporating technology into instruction.
Awards and recognition
- Digital Cinema Contest
The Digital Cinema Contest is an exciting annual event for Purdue students to develop and produce video or animations. Entries are judged on all elements of development and production, including narrative, technical components, and integration of information resources. The contest culminates in a final public screening and awards ceremony. - Digital Content Development Grants
The goal of this funding program is to select and help implement projects that increase instructional effectiveness through the use of digital and online technology. The IDC, which offers this program, seeks to cultivate instructional excellence through experimentation with new ideas, teaching methods, and technologies. Submitted projects should strive to enhance the quality of instruction at Purdue. - Distance Education Incentive Awards Program
The Instructional Development Center (IDC) awards cash prizes every year to Purdue faculty for developing high-quality distance education classes. The IDC’s educational technologists who work with faculty within the Digital Content Development Grant program on the West Lafayette campus joined forces with the Office of Continuing Education and Conferences (OCEC) to run this Distance Ed Incentive Award program. The program’s goal is to encourage and support quality distance education course development.