The Teaching Technology Integrations Gateway provides a single point of reference for access to and assessment of teaching technologies and their level of integration with UB Learns and is intended to have the following impacts on institutional and academic success:
The University at Buffalo is a large and complicated organization where faculty and staff often have difficulty navigating the policies and processes surrounding the use of technology in their programs and courses. The gateway gathers into one location tools to help faculty and staff:
Identifying a technology that will meet faculty instructional needs and understanding at what level that technology is implemented can be difficult. Many times a course or program employs specific teaching activities and methodologies but faculty are unsure of whether there is a best practice or technology that can meet those instructional goals. This gateway will provide a tool for learning what technologies are available at UB, connect instructional needs to training resources, provide a pathway to program and course design consultation, and best practices for use of existing teaching technologies.
This gateway provides a transparent view of the UB procurement process with the goal of helping faculty and staff to simply and efficiently work through the steps of assessment, procurement, and Implementation of a teaching technology by:
Vendor marketing practices can be difficult to navigate. This gateway provides a vendor registration process that will collect technology details including:
The vendor registration process will allow faculty and staff a central location to refer vendor inquiries to and help to reduce the impact of sales calls and marketing on productive work.