Under the
Office of the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Faculty Development, Academic Technology (AT) and sister department
Academic Media & Digital Services (AMDS) teams evaluate, procure, and administer the instructional technology resources
(D2L, Mediasite, Respondus, Qualtrics, Turnitin, Poly & Zoom) which are the core technologies deployed to support the educational mission of OUHSC. In addition to managing the physical hardware & software resources, AT/AMDS teams provide distributed expertise & training to college/departmental-based IT Tier-1’s, faculty and staff, enabling them to utilize these technologies based on their specific needs.
AT and AMDS Services include, but may not be limited to the following:
- Innovative design to
equip and support virtual and physical learning and collaboration environments,
through integrated, easy to use audio and video systems that support in-person
and distance education.
- Professional
full-service video and audio production (on-location or AMDS in-house studios).
- Lecture capture and maintenance of streaming media collections through on premise Mediasite infrastructure.
- Videoconferencing services through on premise Poly infrastructure/codecs and Zoom cloud-hosted solutions.
- In-house training to support faculty using videoconferencing solutions for education, collaboration, research and telemedicine.
- Full-color poster printing services to faculty and departments (paper or fabric) in support of academic activities.
- Optimize and support
Brightspace by D2L for 4500 OUHSC faculty/students/staff to access curriculum
content, lecture captures, quizzes, proctoring and plagiarism solutions, as
well as library resources in a secure environment.
- In-house training for
basic and innovative uses of tools within
Brightspace by D2L, including course
design consultations that support faculty using the technology to provide
course content and assessments for students.
- In-house training to
support faculty using
Respondus proctoring solutions, Qualtrics survey
software, and
Turnitin plagiarism software.