At the 2023 President’s Convocation, Assistant Professor of Education, Tadashi Dozono, was awarded the President’s Award for Teaching and Innovation. The Teaching and Learning Innovations team has been proud to partner with Dr. Dozono on the Equity Inquiry Project, for which he was aptly recognized, and we are excited to continue our celebration of him through the […]
If you teach a STEM course like me (I teach physics), then you know that creating and implementing a remote learning activity for a STEM course that retains the rigor required for a math-based discipline is challenging to say the least. It simply isn’t a natural modality for any subject that requires one to move […]
This is the final part in a series of blog posts to highlight the work of our Teaching & Learning Innovations team. Each team member was asked to write a post about the work of one of their colleagues. The Real Wonder Woman Hollywood depicts superheroes as larger than life super-humans endowed with special powers […]
This is part 4 in a series of blog posts to highlight the work of our Teaching & Learning Innovations team. Each team member was asked to write a post about the work of one of their colleagues. Ben Hytrek is many things; young, creative, funny… he’s quite the peacock. As the unofficial “media specialist” […]
This is part 3 in a series of blog posts to highlight the work of our Teaching & Learning Innovations team. Each team member was asked to write a post about the work of one of their colleagues. Kristi O’Neil-Gonzalez, our self-described “quirky” Instructional Technologist and Accessibility Lead for the Teaching and Learning Innovations (TLI) […]
This is part 2 in a series of blog posts to highlight the work of our Teaching & Learning Innovations team. Each team member was asked to write a post about the work of one of their colleagues. Michael McGarry describes his journey to becoming the Instructional Technology Lead at CSU Channel Islands as “weird” […]
This is part 1 in a series of blog posts to highlight the work of our Teaching & Learning Innovations team. Each team member was asked to write a post about the work of one of their colleagues. When I first met Megan Eberhardt-Alstot and asked her about her work, a smile lit her face […]
Last night at the age of 41, despite my full time job as a university performing arts professor and mom of 2, I personally felt like I defied the status quo by dancing with Selena Gomez on the American Music Awards. I danced professionally in my twenties, and in my thirties shifted my dance practice […]
I recently enrolled in an online doctoral program and now find myself in the role of an online student and not just an online instructor. I have learned so much from being on the “other side of the screen.” Here are five essential things to consider as you build successful online learning opportunities for your […]
Normally, I use these blog entries to reflect on my teaching practices. However, before this Spring semester even started, I received an e-mail from a new student that got me thinking in a completely different direction. I have been wrestling with some of these ideas for a while, but this email was “the straw that […]
