ETS Training & Support

About Training & Support Services

ETS is dedicated to supporting faculty, staff and students on the use of educational technologies to enrich teaching and learning experiences. This encompasses a broad range of technologies, including bSpace (the campus learning management system), audio-visual and audience participation equipment in classroom, social media and online collaboration tools.

Help Center

An online collection of help topics, FAQs, and policies for using bSpace, Classroom Technology, Event Support, Webcast and other educational technologies.

bSpace Help can be found at http://bspacehelp.berkeley.edu.

Workshops and Training Events

bSpace workshops and brown bag events focusing on an array of educational technologies

Support Requests

Reliable, personal support for bSpace, Classroom Technology and Webcast issues

Consultations

Individual consulation sessions are available in support of implementation of educational technologies (including bSpace and other technologies), instructional design and for use of classroom technologies.

Recent Training and Support Articles

Backward Design: Putting the focus on student learning

Posted February 8, 2012 | Article

For some instructors, a course syllabus starts with a topic--a topic that you think students should be informed about, would find fascinating, or fulfills a requirement. For others, the core of a course is its material—lectures, textbooks and readings, hands-on projects, multimedia.

Tags: assessment, backward design, course design, learning objectives, syllabus design

Campus continues to thrive with bSpace; ETS prepares to pilot CalCentral for course work in Spring 2012

Posted December 19, 2011 | Article

As Fall semester 2011 ends, the bSpace Training & Support team brings another busy semester to a close.

Awakening the Digital Imagination: a Faculty/Staff Fall Seminar on New Media

Posted August 22, 2011 | Article

The subject is new media. The opportunity is professional development. The method is an engaging 12-week seminar.

Tags: courses, faculty, new media, social media

Blended learning; What is it and why try it?

Posted August 22, 2011 | Article

What is blended learning?

A blended learning approach to instruction combines face-to-face classroom methods with computer-based/mediated activities, resulting in an integrated learning experience for students. Blended courses combine face-to-face and online methods to varying degrees, depending on the discipline, the size of the class, student demographics, and the preferences of the instructor. There are no rules in place to prescribe what the ideal blend is.

Tags: bSpace, online instruction

Training & Support's Instructional Technologies Matrix

Posted August 21, 2011 | Article

The purpose of this matrix is to answer the comment question, “I’d like to do [x] in my class. Is there a technology that can help me do that?”

A .pdf is available for download below.

Tags: bSpace, instructional technology, online instruction, social media

Theories of Learning and Instructional Design Frameworks

Posted August 18, 2011 | Article

Numerous instructional design models have been used and are being redefined by instructors and instructional designer to write syllabi, design courses and course activities, and map out their assessment plans. Below are some of the influential instructional design models used by college and university instructors currently.

Tags: instructional technology, online instruction, syllabus, teaching and learning

Cal Educamp 2011: a Technology & Education Unconference

Posted August 15, 2011 | Article

On August 5, over 60 educators and technologist converged on the Berkeley campus to participate in the inagural Cal Educamp, a Technology & Education Unconference co-hosted by Educational Technology Services to engage faculty and the broader bay area teaching community in the uses of social media in education.

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