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Rethinking Online Discussion Boards (Part Two): Changing Student Expectations For Online Dialogue

Rethinking Online Discussion Boards (Part Two): Changing Student Expectations For Online Dialogue

This is the second part of the Rethinking Online Discussion Boards series, focusing on practical tweaks to Canvas’s existing structures. My TLi Faculty Innovation Fellowship has focused on challenges with online discussion boards. In part one, I explored the contradiction of using discussions as thinly veiled assessments rather than as tools for dialogue and exploration. […]

Navigating the Transformation Process: Understanding and Supporting Teacher Candidates Through Their Journey from Student to Professional

Navigating the Transformation Process: Understanding and Supporting Teacher Candidates Through Their Journey from Student to Professional

I have spent the better part of the last few years examining the transformation of our teaching credential students as they move from “student” to “teacher” during their one-year licensure program at CI in the Teacher Education Department. Specifically, my studies aim to map the known cycle of transformation onto their experiences and create activities […]

Rethinking Online Discussion Boards (Part One)

Rethinking Online Discussion Boards (Part One)

Through a TLi Faculty Innovation Fellowship, I’ve been exploring how to adapt online discussion boards to create more genuine opportunities for dialogue, belonging, and learning. This initial blog will focus on why online discussions matter and how to get started with retooling. Part Two will focus on practical tweaks within Canvas’s existing structures. Part Three will […]

[Repost] “Servingness” Through Culturally Sustaining Learning Design

[Repost] “Servingness” Through Culturally Sustaining Learning Design

This week, in honor of National HSI Week, TLi is proud to repost “‘Servingness’ Through Culturally Sustaining Learning Design,” by Danna Lomax, Megan Eberhardt-Alstot, and Lorna Gonzalez. This post was originally published on October 24, 2023. Last month, CSUCI celebrated our designation as a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) and our identity as a community rich in cultural wealth […]

Introducing TLi’s Faculty Learning Design Coordinator, Stacey Beauregard!

Introducing TLi’s Faculty Learning Design Coordinator, Stacey Beauregard!

Teaching and Learning Innovations is thrilled to welcome Stacey Beauregard to our team! In 2024-2025, Stacey is joining us in the role of Faculty Learning Design Coordinator, a new position that will lead core learning design initiatives for CSU Channel Islands. Stacey Beauregard has been a Lecturer in English at CSUCI for more than ten […]

TLi’s Summer AI Residency: Exploration, Learning, & Community

TLi’s Summer AI Residency: Exploration, Learning, & Community

In Summer 2023, Teaching and Learning Innovations (TLi) launched our AI Residency, an experimental opportunity for a CSU Channel Islands staff member and a faculty member to join the TLi team in a summer of exploring, tinkering, learning, and critically analyzing AI diffusion in higher education. Through weekly meetings with demonstrations, a shared commitment to […]

Teaching with a Character!

Teaching with a Character!

This is the ninth and final post of the Carefully Curated Series for the Spring 2024 semester. *Disclaimer: This is NOT an advertisement for Adobe Character Animator. I just find this particular software tool to be a really engaging way to create ​​fun and interesting characters to improve student engagement in online classes. It’s also available to […]

Small Teaching: Transparent Content

Small Teaching: Transparent Content

This is the eighth post of the Carefully Curated Series for the Spring 2024 semester. In my last blog, I discussed the small teaching move, Winkelmes et al. (2016) Transparent Assignment Design (TAD). As part of the Transparency In Learning and Teaching (TILT) Project, Winkelmes et al., (2016) studied the impact of a very small and very […]

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