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ICON Direct: Iowa’s Recipe for Saving Students $1 Million

ICON Direct: Iowa’s Recipe for Saving Students $1 Million

Leading up to the Unizin Summit 2019, we will feature a monthly Summit-centric blog post and webcast.  First up in the series is a Q&A with Annette Beck, Director of Enterprise Instructional Technology in the Office of Teaching, Learning & Technology at the University...

Major Milestones

Major Milestones

Today’s announcement that the Unizin Data Platform (UDP) is now in General availability marks a strategic milestone for Unizin member universities.  We came together to ensure that we could shape our own future for digital education, stay in control of our own data,...

T&L Meeting in Chicago

T&L Meeting in Chicago

The bi-annual Unizin Teaching and Learning (T&L) Meeting was held in April at the Big Ten Center in Chicago. Preliminary subcommittee meetings were held on the afternoon of April 4th, and flurry of excitement could be felt as the general session convened the...

Iowa Insights from 2018 ELI Conference

Iowa Insights from 2018 ELI Conference

Hosted in New Orleans, the 2018 EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) conference brought together instructors and staff from across the country to discuss “Achieving Student Success Through New Models of Learning.” The University of Iowa Office of Teaching, Learning...

How Video Content Improves Learner Experiences

How Video Content Improves Learner Experiences

Written by Unizin's Fall 2017 video production intern Sarah Nouri. The creation and distribution of video content plays a key role in expanding and improving the way learners can access information. As a senior in college, I have witnessed a shift in the way the...

Solving the Learning Data Puzzle: The Unizin Common Data Model

Solving the Learning Data Puzzle: The Unizin Common Data Model

If you’re thinking about how to improve student success - and who isn’t in higher ed? - then data and analytics about teaching and learning are probably on your mind. It can be a daunting subject. There is so much data all around us - about students and courses; the...

Two Unizin Members Complete Migration to Canvas

Two Unizin Members Complete Migration to Canvas

Unizin recognizes Instructure’s Canvas as the top learning management system on the current market because of its incomparable interoperability, innovative content and analytics capabilities, and open standards. Currently, all of Unizin’s Founding Members have Canvas...