I spent part of this summer redesigning ENGL 105 (Composition and Rhetoric), a first-year writing course I’ve taught in various forms over twenty years. One of my most useful collaborators was CourseTuner, a custom GPT developed by CSUCI’s Teaching & Learning Innovations (TLi) team. I provided CourseTuner with learning outcomes, assignments, and pieces of my […]
Meet TLi’s Updated Course Starter Kit Building a course from scratch takes time that could be spent on what matters most: your content and your students. Teaching and Learning Innovations’ Course Starter Kit 3.0 is a Canvas template designed to give faculty a strong, accessible course foundation— one that already reflects best practices in inclusive […]
Are you preparing to build classes in Canvas for Spring semester? Teaching and Learning Innovations has a Course Starter Kit available that can help lighten your course-building workload. The Starter Kit is an accessible template that you can copy into your courses and populate with your own instructional content. The kit has been updated to […]
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 […]
As you prepare for the upcoming semester, be sure to request your set of custom course banners/graphics for your courses in CI Learn! While a clear, consistent course navigation is essential in the online component of a course, we are here to help you take your course design to the next level! The aesthetics of […]
