HumTech’s Digital Services Group (DSG)—responsible for managing websites, servers, and networking for Humanities—successfully completed the migration of the majority of its websites and applications to servers on Amazon Web Services…
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Written by Megan Reusche In part three of four in the XR series, we take a more in-depth look into VR through VSim, a VR software developed by Dr. Lisa…
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As anyone who’s ever had to write anything knows, there’s a whole host of forces seemingly conspiring against your words appearing on the page. Aside from the many sources of…
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The idea that language learners need exposure to the language (or “input”) to make progress in the target language is neither surprising nor new. What is surprising is what the…
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Written by Megan Reusche As part two of four in our XR series, this article focuses on the use of virtual reality (VR) in higher education. Insights and commentary regarding…
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Written by Megan Reusche This blog series is titled “Extended Reality (XR) Series” because “XR” is a term that encompasses the immersive technologies of Virtual Reality (VR)/Augmented Reality (AR)/Mixed Reality (MR)…
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In Fall 2017, UCLA Humanities Technology was faced with needing to undertake a major PHP version upgrade of a locally hosted, custom application that provides web-based 24/7 scheduling for thousands…
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Over the past few terms, we’ve been fortunate enough to work with and support instructors as they create non-traditional assignments in their classes. Despite some of the challenges that may…
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Writing Instruction and Research Education, known as WI+RE, is a community at UCLA that fosters student success in their writing and research projects. UCLA’s WI+RE team has developed 7 online…
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It’s typical at the end of every term. While our students go off to celebrate the end of classes, final exams, and projects, we get busy marathon-grading away and trying…
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