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Unizin and D2L expand the digital learning ecosystem
Partnership Expands Base of Learner Data to Support Academic ResearchAustin, TX, and Toronto, ON, Canada — March 17, 2021 — Unizin, the member consortium of leading academic and research institutions, and...
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...
IMS Global Caliper: What It Means for the Unizin Data Platform and the Higher Ed Community
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 Kara Armstrong, Unizin’s Product Manager for data, in which Kara...
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...
An Interview with Jennifer Sparrow, Unizin Teaching & Learning Chair
How and why did you decide to take the lead on the Unizin Teaching & Learning committee? Stacy Morrone of Indiana University took the lead in ensuring that this group was formed, and that the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Data Management: The Fundamentals
Data is becoming the most valuable digital asset, and getting data management right is as critical an issue for universities as other businesses. For Unizin, this is non-negotiable: Data belongs to the...
6 Steps for Creating a Collaborative Culture
Keynote address by Unizin CEO Amin Qazi at the University of Iowa Tech Forum 2017. New forms of collaboration are in increasing demand for successful paths forward. Internal constraints, both within an...