Teaching and Learning Innovations consists of four, core areas—each led by a specialist: Academic Technology, led by Michael McGarry; Learning Design, led by Megan Eberhardt-Alstot; Academic Media, led by Benjamin Hytrek; and Accessibility & Inclusive Design, led by Kristi O’Neil-Gonzalez. These areas are distinct and yet interconnected as they pertain to digital learning at CSUCI. […]
It is now the second week of the Spring 2022 semester and if you’re teaching a course this term you may have noticed a new course menu item, Accessibility Report. Many of you may also recall me referring to an upcoming ALLY tool that would provide more information to faculty, well, this is it! I’m […]
Teaching and Learning Innovations is so proud to share that one of our own—Kristi-O’Neil-Gonzalez, Instructional Technologist-Accessibility Lead and FIT Studio Coordinator—was named this year’s recipient of the President’s Staff Award for Excellence. Kristi’s expertise and dedicated efforts toward accessibility and inclusion helped TLi articulate this set of values as one of our four core areas […]
Perhaps not the ‘sexiest’ topic in virtual learning, but arguably one of the most important for student success (Joosten & Custis 2019). Simply put, navigating an online course is different – literally. Compare a student’s first day of all ‘online’ courses with their first day of ‘on ground’. Whether enrolled in Statistics or English; the […]
Faculty Info Name: Carol Hartnett Academic Program: School of EducationAverage Number of students per section: 30Featured Course: EDMS 522 Literacy 1 Methods: Multilingual/Multicultural Had you taught online prior to the rapid shift to virtual instruction in response to COVID-19? No, not until the shift. What practice or technique have you implemented in your course? I […]
Faculty Info Name: Peter HarperAcademic Program: ArtAverage Number of students per section: 32Featured Courses: Art 102: Multi Cultural Children’s Art Art 220: The History of the Art of Rock’n Roll, and Art 382: The Art of Social Media Had you taught online prior to the rapid shift to virtual instruction in response to COVID-19? Yes, […]
