Headings: !!Local Resources at UCLA
Programs, Grants, and Offices
- UCLA's Office of Instructional Development (OID) has a host of resources for improving classroom instruction including:
- Grant Programs:
- Instructional Improvement Grants provide funding to support undergraduate instructional improvement projects initiated by faculty or departments. The due date for applications is in March.
- Mini-grants
are provided by OID for small-scale projects that improve or enrich existing undergraduate courses. A faculty member can request up to $750 per academic year and can apply at any time. About a thousand such grants are awarded each year.
- Faculty New Media Center has a host of resources, tutorials, and workshops to help you enhance all aspects of teaching. Services include:
- Audio Visual Services (AVS) provides equipment, training, and technicians for regularly scheduled classes, conferences and events.
- Video Conferencing and Distance Learning support is available almost anywhere on campus, as well as from dedicated facilities that can accommodate conferences of up to forty people.
- The Young Research Library is UCLA's central research library. Contact Patti Caravello (patti@library.ucla.edu), YRL Reference & Instructional Services Librarian. The library also offers tutorials and research consultations by subject area. You can find the appropriate contact person for a given subject area here.
- The Information Literacy Project is a project of the UCLA Library. Next year, in cooperation with the Sociology Department, a course on information literacy will be offered to sociology majors. Contact Patti Caravello (patti@library.ucla.edu) or Libbie Stephenson (libbie@ucla.edu) for details.
- YRL also offers 4 GIS work stations with access to ArcInfo/ArcGIS. The library has a license for GeoLytics, which is available for use by UCLA faculty, staff and students. Contact David Deckelbaum (ddeckelb@library.ucla.edu), the YRL Cartographic Information Librarian, for more information. With advanced notice, the reference librarians can also arrange to teach a GIS tutorial for faculty or TAs new to these resources. Interested faculty should contact the YRL reference department.
- Though not specific to the YRL, the UCLA Library also offers online resources in sociology that include abstracts, book reviews, electronic journals and much more.
- Teaching with Technology is a comprehensive yet easy way to find UCLA resources for incorporating new ideas and materials into your classes. There are resources to help you with class websites, video streaming, software licensing, digital imaging, and much more.
- The Institute for Social Science Research promotes interdisciplinary social science research at UCLA and maintains a Data Archive with numerous data resources. The Institute also maintains a web site with a useful set of links to Data Resources and Tutorials. See also the Instructional Resources page, which offers an excellent list of data sites. The site is maintained by Libbie Stephenson (libbie@ucla.edu), UCLA Social Science Data Librarian.
- UCLA Academic Technology Services is responsible for all technology services at UCLA.
- Social Sciences Computing (SSC) manages computing services for social science departments at UCLA. They offer a variety of Faculty Services including laptop and projector loans. Contact Mike Franks (franks@ssc.ucla.edu) for assistance.
- One particularly useful service provided by SSC is Classweb, a user-friendly service to create and maintain course websites. Websites are automatically created for undergraduate social science courses, and optionally for graduate courses. To learn more about this service, see the class website page at SSC.
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