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UCI DTEI Attends the 47th Annual POD Network Conference
Recently, the POD Network hosted its 47th Annual Conference in Seattle, Washington. Held from November 16 to 20, 2022, the conference invited the international POD Network to come together and celebrate this year’s theme of “Re:Imagine, Re:Connect, and Re:Start our...
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 their annual Transforming STEM Higher Education conference in Arlington, Virginia. This year, the conference was titled “Back to Broken? Accelerating Undergraduate STEM...
UCI Faculty Academy for Teaching Excellence (FATE)
UCI Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Hal S. Stern recently announced the formation of the UCI Faculty Academy for Teaching Excellence (FATE) under the umbrella of the Office of the Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning (OVPTL). FATE is an organization...
Resources to Support Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in Teaching
The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has increased in classrooms to foster active learning and student engagement. As a result, digital literacy is becoming a critical component to ensure that pedagogy and curriculum serve the needs of all...
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 idea of wellness in the classroom. Much of this was expected on my part - there is a pretty consistent spectrum of buy-in from faculty when we present something new....
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 California, Irvine (UCI) announced the creation of the Postsecondary Education Research & Implementation Institute (PERI²). PERI² represents an interdisciplinary...
Encourage Active Learning with Google Docs New Drop-Down Menus!
Do you love using Google Docs for creating collaborative worksheets and active learning activities for your students? Great news! Google Docs has recently released a powerful new feature that allows you to create drop-down menus (or what they call drop-down chips)...
Welcome Back!
It's a new academic year that hopefully comes with some fresh starts and a quarter without interruption. I hope summer was whatever you wanted it to be. Here's some highlights from my summer: The good: We spent a month in Washington state with family. I got to...
UCI DTEI Hosts Examining STEM Transfer Pathways Conference
On July 27-29, 2022, the UCI Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation’s (DTEI) Postsecondary Education Research and Implementation Institute (PERI2) hosted the Examining STEM Transfer Pathways Conference. Supported by the National Science Foundation, this...