About Us - Academic Technology

UIT Academic Technology partners with Tufts academic and professional communities to integrate the best of emerging technologies into teaching, research and learning in ways that are meaningful and that support Tufts University’s goal of relevant innovation. UIT Academic Technology (AT) groups and services include:

• Educational Technology
  
  
  • Educational Technology Consulting Services
    AT assists faculty, staff, and students by providing a broad range of Technology Consultation and Planning services, including Instructional Design and Educational Goals consultations.
    
    
  • Faculty Development and Outreach
    Year-long faculty development and outreach is accomplished with programs and publications that include the Summer Institute; the Health Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Mini-Symposiums; the UIT Forum for Teaching, Learning, and Research; the Faculty IT Liaison Program; the UIT Encyclopedia for Teaching with Technology; and the Teaching, Learning, and Research Innovations e-newsletter.
    
    
  • Tools for Teaching, Learning, and Collaboration
    A partial list of the tools that have been researched, designed, and developed by AT include Classroom Response Systems (iClickers); the Spark suite of Web 2.0 tools; VUE (Visual Understanding Environment); Web conferencing; and the Tufts Digital Repository & Digital Library services in partnership with Digital Collections & Archives (DCA). Visit http://uit.tufts.edu/at/?pid=24 to see a current list of available tools.
    
    Click here to download the AT Educational Technology Services Brochure.
    
    
    
• Research Technology
  Click here to view a complete list of currently available research technology services.
  
  
  • Research Technology Infrastructure
    Services include High Performance Computing via our Research Cluster as well as licensing of commercial software packages for use on the cluster. UIT-AT also offers network accessible research data storage.
    
    
  • Research Technology Tools
    Tools for visualization include support of the Tufts Center for Scientific Visualization and the center's Access Grid videoconferencing node. Bioinformatics tools include gene sequencing (http://emboss.uit.tufts.edu/) and micro-array (http://carmaweb.uit.tufts.edu) analysis tools.
       
    
  • Research Consulting Services
    Research Technology provides statistical consulting assistance to faculty and graduate students for both research technology and instructional projects (see http://uit.tufts.edu/at/?pid=81). They also assist faculty and departments with research, information, and recommendations concerning appropriate technologies.
    
    
  • Geographic Information Services
    Research Technology manages Geographic Information Systems (GIS) services across the Tufts campuses, including the GIS Center in the Tisch Library. GIS-related services include GIS training for faculty and students (workshops, courses), assistance with incorporating GIS modules into Tufts’ courses, and individual and project-based research consulting.  AT also provides specialty services such as map design, geo-processing, spatial analysis, application development, data conversion and development, and software licensing.
    
    Click here to download the AT Research Technology Services Brochure.
    
    

For more information, visit the Academic Technology site at http://uit.tufts.edu/at/.