UNL recently joined Unizin, an eleven member consortium of universities driving solutions for collaborative digital education. The group’s members represents over 500,000 students, including the University of Michigan, Indiana University and the University of Florida. Unizin’s goals are to empower educational institutions and faculty by collaboratively steering the direction for learning management systems, digital repositories and analytics for easier cross-institutional cooperation.
“The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is pleased to be a founding member in Unizin,” said Ronnie Green, interim senior vice chancellor for Academic Affairs. “ As a founding member of Unizin, UNL will provide leadership in and help shape the future of learning analytics and the development, distribution and sharing of digital content in a way that is consistent with our mission and values.”
“We are extremely excited to welcome to Unizin another world-class institution in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln,” said Robin Littleworth, Chief Operations Officer at Unizin. “Unizin is working hard to shape the future of higher education, and it is great to bolster the consortium with this leading university.”
Unizin will assist the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a pilot of Canvas, a commercial learning management system that is favored by the consortium. A limited pilot is taking place this fall at UNL. Faculty are invited to participate in a wider pilot for the 2016 Spring semester.
"There was great interest in Canvas during learning management showcases held at UNL," says Heath Tuttle, director of academic technologies, information servics. "This pilot will give our faculty a more in-depth useability experience with Canvas."
UNL has been using the Blackboard learning management system since 1999.
For more information about Unizin and participating in the Spring Canvas pilot: http://go.unl.edu/unizin