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08 April

Top 5 Lynda.ou.edu Courses

Written by Jeremy Hessman

OU faculty, staff and students began using Lynda.com just before the holidays, and since then, OU’s students and faculty members have watched 73,639 videos in various different courses on the site. However, a few courses stand out amongst our...

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05 March

Top 5 Innovative Ways OU Faculty are using the One U Store

Written by Jeremy Hessman

Though we’ve only been open a little over a year, we’ve seen some great interaction and innovation taking place in the One U Store. Designed to be more technology playground than store, our tools, advice and help are available...

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27 October

First Annual One U Cup – Nov. 14th & 15th

Written by Jeremy Hessman

One Day. One Community. One Difference. The Event: Please join us for the first annual One U Cup on November 14th and 15th! The One U Cup is a new event designed to bring value to OU students, faculty...

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10 October

Mobile Plaza Provides Space for Recommended Campus Apps

Written by Jeremy Hessman

Interested in looking through the various educational apps developed by OU or recommended by departments on campus? Visit OU’s new Mobile Plaza website. After hearing that it was difficult for students, faculty and staff to find recommended apps, OU...

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27 August

OU Libraries Invites the Public to Transcribe Civil War-Era Documents

Written by Jeremy Hessman

NORMAN – In observance of the 150th anniversary of the U.S. Civil War, the University of Oklahoma Libraries invites the public to transcribe a group of Civil War-era manuscripts, available at transcribe.ou.edu. Transcribing the Past: Civil War Manuscripts features...

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12 August

iClicker Training and Demo Workshops for Instructors

Written by Jeremy Hessman

The Center for Teaching Excellence and Information Technology are providing a day focused on iClickers — August 14. We are offering two training sessions for new users at 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. in Physical Sciences 224. We are...

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06 August

Spring 2014 LMS Pilot Update from Dr. Mark Morvant

Written by Jeremy Hessman

Colleagues, First, I want to thank the 859 Faculty and instructors who completed the D2L Faculty Survey last Fall and the 35 Faculty and instructors who participated in the LMS Pilot in the Spring. The survey gave us valuable...

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24 July

OU Libraries Collaborates with Max Planck Institute for the History of Science on New Publishing Platform

Written by Jeremy Hessman

NORMAN – To make advanced research results based on rare works in the History of Science broadly available to the public, the University of Oklahoma Libraries’ History of Science Collections and the Max Planck Institute for the History of...

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25 April

LMS Pilot – Why, When, & How

Written by Jeremy Hessman

As we travel across campus to engage faculty and students about the ongoing LMS pilot project, we’ve been routinely asked what is driving the project. It’s simple, actually: the OU Desire2Learn contract expires next summer. In the ever changing...

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14 April

LMS Pilot – Demo Online Access

Written by Jeremy Hessman

As you may know, OU is currently involved in a pilot to decide whether to keep OU Desire2Learn (learn.ou.edu) or replace it with Instructure’s Canvas. The most important part of this pilot is gathering feedback from students and instructors...

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