TAMU Resources

Below is a listing of technology support, distance education information, and teaching and learning resources at Texas A&M.

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Center for Teaching Excellence
Continuing and Professional Studies Office
Help Desk Central
Instructional Media Services
Instructional Services at TAMU Libraries
Internet Media Services
iTunes U Initiative
Measurement and Research Services
Office of Distance Education
Office of Institutional Assessment
Open Access Labs
Student Learning Center
Student Life Studies
TTVN
Texas A&M Information Technology
University Writing Center


Center for Teaching Excellence
(979) 845-8392
533 Blocker Building
4246 TAMU

• Consults instructors and offers suggestions for teaching enhancement
• Conducts classroom observations
• Interprets student-evaluation data
• Helps assess student learning
• Supports writing teaching-philosophy documents and compiling teaching portfolios
• Supports graduate teaching assistants
• Promotes best practices in teaching and enhancing student learning

Continuing and Professional Studies Office
(979) 845-6036
101 Houston Building
4460 TAMU

• Provides guidance in planning and executing continuing education programs
• Consults with educators to identify viable programs and target audiences
• Develops relationships and brokers connections with potential continuing education partners
• Converts existing academic courses to continuing education credential programs
• Implements and assesses continuing education programs

Help Desk Central at Computing & Information Services
(979) 845-8300
1112 Computing Services Center (Teague Building)
3142 TAMU

• Houses a 24-hour service facility that provides computing assistance to students, instructors, and staff
• Serves as a central point of contact for computing-related issues on campus and beyond
• Manages computing accounts and allocations
• Tracks and monitors virus, malware, and security threats
• Offers fee-based computer and other hardware repairs

Instructional Media Services
(979) 845-8456
2601 General Services Complex
3142 TAMU

• Supports and maintains technology-enhanced classrooms throughout campus
• Provides, supports, and delivers various reservable equipment, such as data projectors, laptops, VHS-C and MiniDV videocameras, and VHS/DVD players
• Supports and maintains registrar-controlled classroom equipment, such as data projectors, desktop computers, display screens, VHS/DVD players, document cameras, SMART Sympodiums, wireless microphones, and 35 mm slide projectors

Instructional Services at TAMU Libraries
(979) 458-0114
107 Evans Library
5000 TAMU

• Supports instructors and graduate students who teach research and/or writing-intensive courses
• Offers in-class library informational sessions, workshops, and web-based tutorials
• Consults instructors about how to incorporate library research and resources in any course throughout the academic disciplines
• Consults instructors about how to create effective library assignments and use specific library services and resources

Internet Media Services
(979) 845-1236
1112 TAMU

• Administers the MediaMatrix Audio/Visual Internet Streaming System
• Provides encoding, digitizing, and/or converting services for various types of media
• Supplements the traditional classroom approach and provides alternative learning mechanisms through on-demand, streaming video/audio content
• Expands the reach of education beyond the university
• Enables users to augment and package existing materials to create robust learning and promotional materials

iTunes U Initiative by the Division of Marketing & Communications
(979) 845-4663
204 Bizzell East Hall
1372 TAMU

• Provides a no-cost content distribution system hosted by Apple on the iTunes Store
• Enables Texas A&M departments and student organizations to provide audio, video, and PDF files from lectures, interviews, performances, and other sources
• Allows users to download publicly available multimedia content to their computers, iPods, or other portable devices

Measurement and Research Services
(979) 845-0532
1101 General Services Complex
4239 TAMU

• Provides testing opportunities for college-credit hours through CLEP, departmental credit-by-exam, or correspondence courses
• Provides scanning services for exams and research
• Creates and conducts surveys for research, customer satisfaction, and assessment using online, paper-based, or telephone methods
• Analyzes and reports results of local and national survey projects
• Conducts student ratings of instructors

Office of Distance Education
(979) 845-4282
101 Houston Building
1478 TAMU

• Provides information and resources for instructors to develop new distance education courses
• Ensures courses in development meet THECB and SACS requirements
• Provides over 20 different graduate degrees and certificate programs for both students and the public
• Provides assistance in marketing distance education programs to help recruit highly motivated graduate students

Office of Institutional Assessment
(979) 862-2918
109 Pavilion
1157 TAMU

• Supports and assists assessment initiatives throughout the university, particularly those involving university-wide assessment and accreditation
• Consults instructors and staff who develop and implement program-level assessment plans and reports, student-learning outcomes, assessment methods, and other evidence of student learning
• Offers workshops regarding assessment
• Hosts an annual assessment conference where instructors and staff can learn more about assessment and share best practices

Open Access Labs
(979) 845-8306
Student Computing Center (main office)
3142 TAMU

• Provide computer access, classrooms, testing facilities, and group-study areas
• Provide general and specialized workstations
• House walk-up resource desks and offer informational guides about campus computing resources
• Feature a variety of printing capabilities

Student Learning Center
(979) 845-2724
118 Hotard Hall
4230 TAMU

• Assists undergraduates to apply learning theories to college studies
• Provides career awareness to students to help focus their academic pursuits
• Helps students with course-content struggles through peer tutoring in lower-level math and science courses
• Fosters course-content confidence in students by focusing on developing long-term study skills in targeted lower-level core-curriculum courses through Supplemental Instruction (SI) sessions
• Helps students improve developmental skills for success with Texas Higher Education Assessment (THEA), College Board ACCUPLACER, and graduate school entrance exams

Student Life Studies
(979) 862-5624
C321 Cain Hall
1254 TAMU

• Provides nationally normed, self-report data on student demographics, opinions, attitudes, values, and experiences upon entry to Texas A&M and throughout their college years
• Collects data on the overall student experience at Texas A&M
• Provides data regarding the campus climate as voiced by students
• Offers assessment and program-evaluation support for staff and recognized student organizations

TTVN
(979) 862-2240
Moore Communications Center
4244 TAMU

• Provides wide-area data and interactive communications network for the Texas A&M University System
• Serves numerous affiliated colleges and universities, K-12 school districts, and state agencies throughout Texas
• Provides enterprise-class commodity Internet, Internet2, National LambdaRail, and Texas Intranet data services to all members of TAMUS and the extended TTVN community
• Provides videoconference scheduling and facilitation services, videoconference user and technical support, multi-point videoconference bridging, ISDN/H.320 gateways, live and archive video webcasting, and videoconference equipment repair
• Manages the Centra Webconferencing System for the TAMUS

Texas A&M Information Technology
Office of the Vice President & Associate Provost for Information Technology
Dr. Pierce Cantrell
(979) 845-2072
119 Teague Building
1365 TAMU

• Provides Information Technology (IT) services and resources to support academic and research pursuits at Texas A&M
• Provides network and videoconferencing connectivity
• Provides instructional and educational technologies
• Provides telecommunications and high-performance computing
• Administers university IT grant programs
• Affiliated with numerous regional and national IT initiatives

University Writing Center
(979) 458-1455
214 Evans Library
5000 TAMU

• Supports all student writers, both graduate and undergraduate, through individually tailored consultations, writing resources on the web, and workshops
• Supports instructors who teach written and oral communication through services such as Undergraduate Writing Assistants, newsletters, workshops, and online resources
• Consults instructors about how to incorporate writing in any class throughout the academic disciplines
• Conducts workshops about written and oral communication in undergraduate and graduate courses
• Provides training for graduate student teachers in the area of writing instruction