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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. […]

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 […]

BECOMING AN ACTIVIST: A JOURNEY TOWARDS IMPROVING ACCOMMODATION 	METHODS TOWARDS STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES IN THE WRITING CENTER

BECOMING AN ACTIVIST: A JOURNEY TOWARDS IMPROVING ACCOMMODATION METHODS TOWARDS STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES IN THE WRITING CENTER

The following blog post developed out of student interest to explore how campus services, specifically tutoring in the Multiliteracy Writing Center, addressed the needs of student clients with various learning needs and the tutors who serve them. That study  was conducted by Cristal Gamez (CSUCI, 2018) and was supported by a TLI Faculty Fellow, Talya Drescher, Assistant Professor of Special […]

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