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Inclusive Teaching and Beyond: The Need for Institutional Change
"Inclusion" has become a post-pandemic buzzword in many universities, highlighting historical inequities within a broader crisis in higher education. As universities face record levels of student despair and disconnection, campuses across the country report dropping...
Pedagogies of Possibility in a Post-Pandemic Classroom
Educators everywhere remember the pandemic as a period of cataclysmic upheaval, the effects of which are still being felt today. For many longtime educators like me, the events of 2020 meant not just a sudden switch to new modalities but also a reexamination of what...
Critical University Studies: Rethinking Academia from Within
In 2024, as debates intensify over the legitimacy, fairness, and value of higher education, a new academic movement is bringing analysis and balance to a discourse increasingly vulnerable to partisan posturing. “Critical University Studies” (CUS) looks at the...
Learning Assistants as Peer Educators in Large Online Courses
Following the graduate student worker strike of 2023, many faculty members like me were caught off guard by the sudden need for alternative instructional support. The term "learning assistant" initially brought to mind images of undergraduates serving merely as...
Workshops and Professional Development
Workshops and Professional Development Digital Accessibility Support and Help (DASH) Open HouseIn partnership with the Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity (OEOD), the Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation (DTEI) is excited to announce the launch...
Gamifying Our Way Through Teaching
Author: Kritideepan Parida The usage of gamification in classrooms has drastically increased in the past decade as instructors need a new and fun method to impart education to students. Gamification as a term corresponds to the...
Using Discord in University Classrooms: Overview and Guidelines
Author: Boyun Kim The switch to remote teaching due to COVID-19 brought about the rise of many tools. Discord, used primarily for gaming functions, increasingly began to be used by students for classes. As instructors, many of us remember students in Zoom chats...
Fostering Faculty Learning Communities to Encourage Teaching Dialogues, Faculty Engagement, and Peer Support
The UCI Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation (DTEI) is devoted to preparing faculty to be self-sufficient in designing pedagogical innovations that embrace inclusive excellence and encourage student engagement to enhance the learning experience and support...
Reframing Assessment and Grading Design to Focus on Mastery Using Specifications Grading
Steve Mang Associate Professor of Teaching Department of ChemistryIn this faculty spotlight blog, I had an opportunity to interview Steve Mang, an Associate Professor of Teaching in the Chemistry department, who teaches upper-division physical and analytical chemistry...