Instructional Technology
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With a team of Instructional Designers and Application Developers, the Office of Instructional and Research Technology provides instructional technology services for those who teach at Rutgers. We strive to help instructors realize the full potential of technology and its use as a tool in education.
Sakai
The Office of Instructional and Research Technology runs Sakai, the collaborative learning environment at Rutgers. Sakai has approximately 30,000 unique users per week, and represents approximately 30% of the for-credit course sections taught each year. Sakai has become the platform of choice for most faculty in the Rutgers-New Brunswick and Rutgers-Camden.
Sakai is great for courses, research projects, committees, departmental collaboration, and student projects. Here are some of the things you can do with Sakai to make your life easier:
- Manage your course with up-to-date rosters, photo rosters, and simple class communication methods (never manage another class mailing list again!)
- Share materials with your students, staff, and colleagues at other universities
- Conduct a hybrid course with intuitive discussion forums and easy content sharing
- Have access to always available file storage
- Share grades with students during the semester and send official course grades to the Registrar with one click
- Share Rutgers Library eReserves right in your worksite
All Rutgers users can create their own Sakai worksites. Visit Sakai today and give it a try!
OIRT offers departmental training for Sakai. If your department is interested in a personalized training session specifically for your department, please send an e-mail to sakai@rutgers.edu
For information on other course management systems at the university, please visit the Who Can Help? section of the OIRT website.
For a listing of goals we are currently working towards using Sakai, visit our Sakai Goals page.
More Information
We deal with additional instructional technologies as well, including blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, collaborative editing software, podcasting, and games in education.
Some of the services we provide include:
- Introducing faculty to instructional technologies and supporting the faculty in operation and use of such technologies
- Providing training, documentation, small group workshops, and individual assistance for current and new instructional technologies
- Researching and evaluating instructional technologies of interest to faculty
- Developing, maintaining, and supporting instructional technologies at Rutgers
For information on specific instructional technologies (and more), use the links to the right. If you are interested in incorporating technology into your teaching, contact us at oirt@rutgers.edu.