Welcome to the Office of Instructional Development
The UCLA Office of Instructional Development (OID) supports the instructional mission of the University and enhances teaching and learning opportunities. Through grants, programs and services OID promotes the effective use of current and emerging instructional methodologies and technologies.
The Earth's Changing Climate
Professor Yongkang Xue of UCLA's Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences says, "The DVD Earth's Changing Climate offers an examination of global climate change, and explains the concepts of energy balance and the greenhouse effect; and looks at such fingerprints of climate change as rising temperatures, melting glaciers, and altered behaviors of plants and animals. This DVD is ideal to complement the materials that I teach in the class 'Applied Climatology,' which presents basic knowledge of the components in the physical and biological environments, and how environment will change under global climate change scenarios." This media acquisition was funded through OID's Mini Grant program.
Instructors may schedule this title for class use by contacting OID's Instructional Media Collection & Services. (IMCS)
2009 Copenhaver Award Winner
John G. Riley from the Economics department discusses the development of UCLA Auction House
to let students experience the economic modeling of auctions without
having to understand the complex mathematics underlying those models.
Read more about the awards and past winners at the Copenhaver Awards page.
