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Innovating in Education. Connecting Students and Faculty.

Our Mission -

The mission of the Academic Technology team is to facilitate the development, integration, and implementation of student information and curriculum management systems and to promote strategies and programs for teaching and learning at UMass Chan through instructional design consultation and integration of innovative teaching and learning technologies.

Our team of leaders, developers, business analysts, instructional technologists/designers, and product owners work directly with administrators, faculty, and students from all three UMass Chan schools to meet current and future acadmic technology challenges.

 

Meet Our Team

 
Patrica Lanzillotti
ACIO, Academic Technology
Abhi Yalamanchili
Director Academic Technology
Michael Westfort
Manager Curricular Innovation
Stephen Roll
Sr. Product Owner
Sagaya Alphonse
Sr Development Engineer
Varun Kamatar
Application Database Developer III
Edward Kane
Sr Development Engineer
Pamela Kenyon
Sr Business System Analyst
Meg Latessa
PS Applications/Sr Business System Analyst
Dhan Kondal Reddy Vangeti
Sr Development Engineer
Supraja Konduru
Test Automation Engineer
Andrea Delaney
Sr Instructional Technologist
Hui Rong
Sr Instructional Technologist
Mike Belanger
Sr Instructional Technologist
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Ross Petrain
Instructional Technologist III
Lucy Ortiz
Instructional Technologist II

Training & Support

Academic Technology partners with UMass Chan faculty and staff to stay up to date and comfortable with emerging instructional technology tools and pedagogical practices. Our team offers individual and group training opportunities as well as technical support for a variety of learning technologies.

 
One on One Consultation
Our Instructional Technologists are available to meet one-on-one to discuss your teaching goals, identify relevant instructional approaches or technologies, and support the planning and implementation of your idea.
 

 

Schedule a group training
session with one or more of our Instructional Technologists.

 

 

 

View our Knowledge Base
articles for supporting information/Documentation on all Academic Instructional Technologies.
 

 

 

Our instructional Design team offers training opportunities through regularly scheduled workshops on different educational technologies. These workshops include topics such as Blackboard, Top Hat and Kaltura as well as many others.