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First Time Teaching? SGFP to the Rescue!
Author: Victoria E. Rodriguez, MSW, MPH Program in Public Health Editor-in-Chief: Alex Bower February 20, 2022 Teaching for the first time completely on your own is a very intimidating feat. When I was first offered the position to teach an...
Current Challenges in Public Health Pedagogy
Author: Michael P. Huynh Program in Public Health Editor: Helen Meskhidze Editor-in-Chief: Alex Bower December 20, 2022 The Problem After being admitted to graduate school in public health, I was excited to learn how career professionals promote...
Creating a Flipped Classroom in a Remote Statistics Course
Author: Jeff Coon Department of Cognitive Sciences Editor-in-Chief: Alex Bower February 20, 2022 Statistics courses are fundamental to virtually every STEM major, yet they are often viewed as a necessary evil. Students generally choose their major...
“Uncovering” Student-Centered Historical Pedagogy Within a Lecture-Oriented Tradition
Author: Clay Ammentorp Department of History Editor-in-Chief: Alex Bower February 20, 2023 Entering into my first ever stint as an instructor-of-record, I felt reasonably well-prepared to face the unique challenges of teaching History 40C: Modern...
Factors That Promote Student Retention in MOOCs
Author: Adebisi A. Akinyemi Department of Psychological Science Editors: Thomas Matthew Colclough & Helen Meskhidze Editor-in-Chief: Alex Bower February 20, 2023 Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are online courses that are open for enrollment...
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 Excellence and Innovation (DTEI) at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), announced the creation of the Postsecondary Education Research & Implementation...
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 Breaks From Class Help Them Succeed. Here’s How Colleges Are Responding,” author Julian Robert-Grmela interviewed Theresa Duong, Pedagogical Wellness Specialist at the UCI...
A Bittersweet 2023
In typical new year fashion, 2023 will bring change, both exciting and challenging. As many of you have seen, 2023 is bringing a major change to me. I have accepted a new position as the Executive Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Montana State...