UNI Curriculum & Instruction

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Our blog posts, articles, presentations, workshops, and consulting focus on helping educators weave curriculum, pedagogy, and technology into engaging and rigorous learning.

College students think of information seeking as a rote process and tend to use the same small set of information resources no matter their question. Information literacy is essential for lifelong learning and empowers individuals and societies. Our educational system should expose students to information literacy from elementary school through postsecondary education so that it is a habit of mind they can call upon throughout their lives. Collaborative efforts between faculty, librarians, technology professionals, and others can develop students who graduate with information literacy competency.

UNESCO. A primer; an easy-to-read, non-technical overview explaining what information literacy means

"There's been an on-going industrial-institutional complex at play here for at least the past 30 years that has ensured the continued irrelevance of technology to learning"

To succeed as a planet in the 21st century, a strong education for every human being isn't just important, it is essential. An open letter to educators from a college dropout who says his schooling interfered with his education. 

Free tutorials for Blackboard, Google Apps, Drupal, Office, and many other applications. Organized by topic, so you can find short 3-4 min videos demonstrating what you need to know. 

Overview of Blackboard features enabling you to use the same content in more than one course or section.

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