Teaching with Technology

UCLA provides undergraduate students with a broad range of educational experiences to encourage their integration into an academic community and to foster their development as scholars in their own right, able to create new knowledge and to contribute to the growth of communities at local, national, and global levels.

The purpose of this website is to provide a forum for information-sharing and opportunities for the discussion of the intersection of learning, teaching and technology.

What's New

April 2008 - The Faculty Committee on Educational Technology is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2008 Copenhaver Award for Innovation in Teaching with Technology.

To Nicolas Christou, Statistics
for developing the suite of interactive learning materials and simulation tools available through the Statistics Online Computational Resource and used by students and researchers at UCLA and around the globe.

To Frank Krasne, Psychology and Brain Research Institute

for developing SWIMMY, a virtual fish, to allow students to conduct virtual neurophysiology experiments and investigations.

To Otto Santa Ana, Chicana and Chicano Studies, and Francis Steen, Communication Studies

for developing the searchable, visually indexed Communication Studies Television News Archive and using the footage to instruct courses on mass culture and mass media literacy.

Additional information about the 32 nominees and their work is available on the award website.

June 2007 - The Faculty Committee on Educational Technology has released the 2006-2007 Annual Report. Committee agendas and minutes are also available on the committee website.

UCLA instructors are creating learning tools to help students understand concepts, solve problems, and experiment with solutions. You'll find a new set of web pages, Tools for Teaching, about some of the tools that instructors talk about in the gallery of interviews. Please contact us if you have developed a tool you would like to have added to this site.