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UCI COMPASS: UCI’s Campuswide Initiative to Support Data-Driven Student Success
What does it mean to be a university in the 21st century? Universities have always aimed to...
Closing Opportunity Gaps with Student Conferences
Author: Nathan Allison Department of English Editor-in-Chief: Alex Bower February 20, 2022...
First Time Teaching? SGFP to the Rescue!
Author: Victoria E. Rodriguez, MSW, MPH Program in Public Health Editor-in-Chief: Alex...
Current Challenges in Public Health Pedagogy
Author: Michael P. Huynh Program in Public Health Editor: Helen Meskhidze Editor-in-Chief:...
Creating a Flipped Classroom in a Remote Statistics Course
Author: Jeff Coon Department of Cognitive Sciences Editor-in-Chief: Alex Bower February 20,...
“Uncovering” Student-Centered Historical Pedagogy Within a Lecture-Oriented Tradition
Author: Clay Ammentorp Department of History Editor-in-Chief: Alex Bower February 20, 2023...
Factors That Promote Student Retention in MOOCs
Author: Adebisi A. Akinyemi Department of Psychological Science Editors: Thomas Matthew...
Introducing the UCI Postsecondary Education Research & Implementation Institute (PERI²)
In 2022, the Office of the Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning (OVPTL) and Division of Teaching...
DTEI’s Theresa Duong Featured by The Chronicle of Higher Education
In a recent article for The Chronicle of Higher Education titled “Students Say Mental-Health...
DTEI Winter 2023 Newsletter
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A Bittersweet 2023
In typical new year fashion, 2023 will bring change, both exciting and challenging. As many of you...
UCI DTEI Attends the 47th Annual POD Network Conference
Recently, the POD Network hosted its 47th Annual Conference in Seattle, Washington. Held from...
Highlights from the 2022 American Association of Colleges and Universities Transforming STEM Higher Education Conference
On November 3-5, 2022, the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) hosted...
UCI Faculty Academy for Teaching Excellence (FATE)
UCI Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Hal S. Stern recently announced the formation of the UCI...
Resources to Support Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in Teaching
The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has increased in classrooms to foster...
What Makes Us or Breaks Us
As we begin the work of pedagogical wellness in DTEI, there has been a number of reactions to the...
UCI DTEI Announces New Postsecondary Education Research & Implementation Institute (PERI²)
In September 2022, the Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation (DTEI) at the University of...
Welcome Back!
It's a new academic year that hopefully comes with some fresh starts and a quarter without...
UCI DTEI Hosts Examining STEM Transfer Pathways Conference
On July 27-29, 2022, the UCI Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation’s (DTEI) Postsecondary...
UCI CODAS Selected as 2022 EDUCAUSE Exemplar
We are excited to announce that the University of California, Irvine (UCI) Collaboratory for Data...
UCI DTEI Welcomes New Pedagogical Wellness Specialist Position Created to Integrate Well-being into Instructional Practices
Coming out of nearly two years of teaching during a pandemic, Andrea Aebersold, Director of...
High Stakes Assessments vs. Reflective Journaling
Jordan C. Grasso, School of Social Ecology Professors across disciplines often rely on...
Take a Moment for Wellness
School's out, and for me this summer means a moment to step back and just be. I tend to focus on...
Critical Latinx Pedagogy: Empowering Latinx Students at a Hispanic Serving Institution
Julybeth Murillo, School of Social Sciences Hispanic Serving Institutions Aguilar- Smith states...
Finding Balance
It's a new month so I decided it was time for a new me. I have literally cut my hair once since...
Gamification and the Classroom: A Short Review
Christopher Chacon, School of Humanities In this short review, I will consider the role student...
Implementing Active Learning in Large-Enrollment Courses
Claire Freimark, School of Biological Sciences Introductory undergraduate science courses can be...
Covid-19, Educational Inequity, and Student Outcomes
Alisson Rowland, School of Social Sciences The US’s poor welfare infrastructure, combined with the...
Implementing Undergraduate Learning Assistants (LAs) in College Classrooms: A Win-Win-Win-Win!
Karma Rose Zavita, School of Social Ecology Big universities are the most likely to have large...
Cultivating an Inclusive Learning Environment
It’s my honor to spotlight Professor Brandon Golob, an assistant professor of teaching of...
Reflective Practice Toolkit
“Reflective Practice is the ability to reflect on one's actions so as to engage in a process of...
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A Celebration Sneak Peek
I'm probably jinxing it just by writing this blog post...but Celebration of Teaching is back! The...
Course Transformation & A Growth Mindset
This month I would like to spotlight Patrick Hong, Lecturer in the Department of Engineering at...
An Article: “10 Course Policies to Rethink on Your Fall (Winter) Syllabus”
Going through this unprecedented time for almost two years, academia is still undergoing adapting...
A Meaningful and Collaborative Learning Environment
I want to write a post to spotlight Professor Victorya Nam, an instructor for lower division...
Implementing Curative Pedagogy in Teaching Theatre History
Talin Abadian, Department of Drama Theatre history courses are generally offered through survey...
Connections Between UDL and Educating Students with Disabilities
Katherine Karayianis, School of Social Ecology As a child growing up with a disability, I often...
Welcome to This Week’s Episode on….Student-Produced Podcasts
Mutsumi Ogaki, School of Social Ecology In social science classes, it's not uncommon for...
Using Flipped Classrooms in Health Sciences Education: The Latest Evidence, and Recommendations
Babak Saatchi, PhD Student, Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing, University of California,...
