The Teaching Innovation Center (TIC) is a center within Arizona State University (ASU) dedicated to the design (and more) of School of Life Sciences (SOLS) courses. Meet our core team!
Design
We provide access to training and resources to foster ongoing development for instructors and graduate-level teaching assistants in SOLS. We do this through regular workshops, development modules in canvas, reading groups, blog posts like this one on using alt text for scientific images, this one on building effective rubrics, and more. Our blog post on alt text is being rewritten as a feature on the TIMES Higher Education website (coming soon!).
We regularly research and evaluate the digital technologies we use in courses and help instructors select ones that improve the learning experience and outcomes for our students. We also keep updated canvas course templates and syllabi templates to consistently improve course delivery. While we are in the position to help folks with technology, we thrive when we help faculty plan how the technology is used in their course to further learning.
Lastly, we review courses using program-level curriculum alignment through efforts like the BioSpine initiative, but also now through our smaller review cycles available to all SOLS courses like our Rapid Review initiative over winter and summer break. During these sessions, we help guide faculty decision-making using evidence-based pedagogy and technology practices and champion a data-driven approach to course design.
Post-Authors:
Christy Jersin Woods an Instructional Designer Associate for the School of Life Sciences at ASU. She leverages technology and inclusive teaching pedagogy to assist faculty in the curriculum and design of their courses. She has several years of experience teaching and in curriculum design in higher education and continues to stay up to date in literature and best practices.
Lenora Ott is an Instructional Designer in the School of Life Sciences Teaching Innovation Center at Arizona State University. Lenora assists faculty with developing and launching their online courses and provides long-term evaluation, redesign, and support for online coursework. Her passion is empowering faculty to create meaningful learning experiences for their students and themselves online. She has worked in higher education for 8 years and has a Master of Science in Global Technology and Development from Arizona State University and a Graduate Certificate in Educational Technology from Northern Arizona.
Bottom row (from left to right): Christy Jersin Woods, Tiffany Lewis
Our Partners
Although our team is small, our network is mighty, and we couldn’t bring many of the services we offer to SOLS without the help and support of our partners in EdPlus, VisLab, CogBooks, the RISE Center, JEDI initiatives, Learning Experience (LX) Design, and our incredible student-worker team. At TIC, we believe in a collaborative model to give faculty and instructors the best resources. Here are a few partners that we work with frequently:- Student Workers: Tiffany Lewis, Ciarra Downing
- EdPlus: Taylor O’Kelley, Jill Roter, Peter Van Leusen, Dee Mullins
- CogBooks: John Ball
- VisLab: Jacob Sahertian, Megan Joyce, Jo Ramirez, Samantha Lloyd, James Baxter
- RISE Center: Sara Brownell
- SOLS JEDI Initiative: Sharon Hall
- LX Design: UTO Workshops
What we do
As Instructional Designers, we wear many hats. We are builders, consultants, project managers, evaluators, trainers, and more.
Relationship building is at the heart of what we do, and we want to collaborate with faculty and instructors at ASU. As instructional designers, we work side by side with faculty and instructors to help design and enhance their courses. We also work to provide a number of development opportunities for instructors to learn new innovative ways to teach their already fabulous courses.
Our mission
TIC’s mission is to empower and engage the instructional community in the School of Life Sciences, working hand-in-hand to design outstanding student-centered learning through inclusive pedagogy, evidence-based practices, data-driven decisions, and digital innovation.
TIC uses a few cornerstones to organize the services we offer to SOLS: Design, Develop, Enhance, Review. Let’s explore these further.
Design
We customize and redesign both new and existing courses with a focus on quality and inclusion. These courses are not constrained by modality. We can assist if your course is online, immersion (face-to-face), or hybrid.
Develop
Enhance
Review
Summary
We are excited to collaborate with you! For upcoming workshops and events, please check out our TIC google calendar. Interested in working with a TIC Instructional Designer? Email tic@asu.edu to get started!
Post-Authors:
Sarah Prosory is an Instructional Designer within the School of Life Sciences' Teaching Innovation Center at Arizona State University. She has worked in higher education for over ten years, supporting faculty in law, engineering, and biological sciences. Her experience includes assisting faculty with in-person, blended, and hybrid courses, as well as making the leap to fully online courses. She provides training to faculty and teaching assistants on how to use educational technologies, and shares evidence-based practices in course design to improve the student experience. She also teaches online for ASU's Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College.
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