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CIT Development Projects

Criteria for CIT development projects include meeting a campus need, demonstrating research and application of an emerging technology, scalability and expandability, and open source.

UTCT InspeCTor Java Applet

The Center for Instructional Technologies in collaboration with the UT Austin High Resolution X-ray CT facility developed a Java Slice Viewer applet for the Digital Morphology Web site. This tool, featured on Digimorph specimen pages, allows interactive use of high-resolution X-ray CT (computed tomography) images. Users can browse through available slice planes, access full screen and annotated image files, view text information, and measure distances between features on the images. See more details on how it works.
See a listing of Digimorph specimens featuring the Java Slice Viewer.

Connexus e-Portfolio

The CIT in collaboration with Connexus developed an online resource that allows students or academics to consolidate and showcase their accomplishments. It serves three basic needs for the user and the learning community:

• For the user, it provides a means of publishing and showcasing work and accomplishments.
• It encourages the user to build a conceptual framework, even if it is diverse in kind (e.g. coursework, research and internships) or character (topics, areas covered), allowing the individual to build a story of learning experiences.
• For assessment and evaluation, evaluators have a single access point to look at the individual's work as a whole.

EUREKA!

The CIT in collaboration with Connexus and the College of Natural Sciences developed this multifeatured online clearinghouse of research information and opportunities for undergraduates at UT Austin.

Connexus Web site

Connexus is designed to enhance the undergraduate experience at UT Austin by providing opportunities for students to make connections among disciplines, between their education and life directions, and among themselves and the faculty. CIT has supported the design and development of the Connexus website.

NMR Solitaire

The CIT collaborated with Dr. Ben Shoulders in the College of Natural Sciences to create the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Solitaire project. CIT staff saw this opportunity to implement and assess the question test interoperability specification (QTI) which asks questions with images and records the response as an interaction with the image. In the case of NMR Solitaire, the product assists UT Austin graduate students to interpret the findings from NMR. For more information on NMR Solitaire, see an interview with Dr. Shoulders.

Classroom Response Systems

CIT researches and benchmarks emerging classroom response systems to support engaging and effective teaching throughout UT Austin. Using remote control-like devices, students answer multiple-choice questions throughout lectures, providing both an interactive learning environment and immediate feedback to the professor regarding student lesson comprehension.