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The UCLA Office of Instructional Development (OID) supports the instructional mission of the University and enhances teaching and learning opportunities. Through grants, programs and services, OID promotes the effective use of current and emerging instructional methodologies and technologies.

Office of Instructional Development offered grants to professors to integrate sustainability into their courses
Distinguished Lecturer Award: Stuart Biegel, Education "Creates curricula whose hallmark is inclusivity"
Distinguished Lecturer Award: Ronald Cooper, Integrative Biology and Physiology "Has utmost respect and consideration of everyone's academic needs"
Assisting TAs at UCLA in improving their teaching and advancing their professional development
Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award: Jacquelyn Ardam, English "Creates an atmosphere where students feel free to voice their opinions about the most sensitive material"
Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award: Joslyn Barnhart, Political Science "Breaks past the anxiety and panic that many students experience with mathematical subjects"
Providing skill-building programs that encourage youth in the community
FREE training for faculty and students! Self-paced. Improve your software skillset
Program and Instructional Assessment resources for faculty and students
AVS provides audio-visual services for faculty. Find classroom equipment info.
BruinCast offers recorded course lectures for students, now in iPhone/iPad formats
IMCS provides faculty with film material for their courses
The DVD Earth's Changing Climate offers an examination of global climate change, rent it at Instructional Media Collection & Services
Using an OID mini-grant, professor Karen Rowe obtained the HBO mini-series, available at Instructional Media Collection & Services
Daily Bruin article regarding the OID's online evaluation pilot program started in 2010 after seeing the need to make evaluating instructors more cost and time efficient