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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 “Carefully Curated” Spring 2024 Blog Series

Introducing TLi’s “Carefully Curated” Spring 2024 Blog Series

The Teaching and Learning Innovations (TLi) team is always tinkering and studying emerging technologies through the lens of effective pedagogy and learning design principles. During the spring semester, we are pleased to share “Carefully Curated,” a blog series that will include a thoughtful and intentional showcase of topics related to teaching and learning, as well […]

Exploring Problem-based Service-Learning + Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL)

Exploring Problem-based Service-Learning + Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL)

Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) has emerged in recent years as an innovative approach to Global Learning, recognized by the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AACU) as a high-impact practice (HIP). Add to the mix another HIP, such as Problem-based Service Learning (PBSL), and you get a powerful pedagogical combo. I usually run a […]

My Takeaways from Exploring AI

My Takeaways from Exploring AI

During Summer 2023, Teaching and Learning Innovations hosted a Summer AI Residency to interrogate, tinker, and explore generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) and large language model (LLM) diffusion in higher education. Our Summer Residents included Jerilee Petralba (Staff in Residence) and Dan Lenz (Faculty in Residence). This week, we are thrilled to share this post […]

“Servingness” Through Culturally Sustaining Learning Design

“Servingness” Through Culturally Sustaining Learning Design

Last month, CSUCI celebrated our designation as a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) and our identity as a community rich in cultural wealth and knowledge. In federal law, the HSI designation is for institutions that enroll a Hispanic-identifying population at a certain numerical threshold (25% or more full-time equivalent enrollment in undergraduate programs). Beyond that enrollment figure, […]

Engaging Students in STEM: PlayPosit Analytics to Support Continuous Improvement

Engaging Students in STEM: PlayPosit Analytics to Support Continuous Improvement

The Pinch Point: Lack of Low-Stakes Pulse-Checks Often, we may not know how our students are really doing until it’s too late to turn things around: packed pre-exam office hours, a slurry of pressing emails the night before the assignment is due, or unexpectedly low exam scores. It becomes clear during these moments that important […]

Engaging Students in STEM: Interactive Digital Worksheets with PlayPosit

Engaging Students in STEM: Interactive Digital Worksheets with PlayPosit

The Pinch Point: Student Engagement with Written Content In every course, across all subjects, students are constantly given written material they are supposed to read and learn from. Books, chapters, worksheets, papers, instructions, articles, and even syllabi all fall on students’ plates. When tasked with a sea of assigned course documents, it can be easy […]

Teaching with Zoom? Here are a few tips from TLi

Teaching with Zoom? Here are a few tips from TLi

Thank you to our Learning Design Lead, Megan Eberhardt-Alstot, for contributing to this post. In the time since emergency remote instruction, many instructors still find themselves teaching in Zoom. Teaching and Learning Innovations has compiled a few tips and resources to get you started, and we encourage you to meet with us if you would […]

Encouraging Professional Growth through Purposeful Discomfort in Coursework

Encouraging Professional Growth through Purposeful Discomfort in Coursework

T. Drescher’s Perspective I am incredibly averse to conflict; it is something that has affected my personal and professional life as early as middle childhood. I’ve spent some time ruminating about how life might be different had I the ability to address interpersonal difficulties head-on, and I’ve concluded that I would have benefited tremendously from […]

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