Karma Rose Zavita, School of Social Ecology Big universities are the most likely to have large lecture-style classes and as a result of the labor involved in managing these courses, there has been an increase reliance on the use of Teaching Assistants (TA’s). One...
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Implementing Curative Pedagogy in Teaching Theatre History
Talin Abadian, Department of Drama Theatre history courses are generally offered through survey courses where future theatre professionals are exposed to essential historical knowledge and vocabulary (Smith et al 113). Yet even though these courses are often...
Connections Between UDL and Educating Students with Disabilities
Katherine Karayianis, School of Social Ecology As a child growing up with a disability, I often heard the word “universal design” thrown around by my mother at every IEP meeting. I remember her begging my teachers to use these universal teaching strategies to not only...
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 instructors to integrate podcasts into course materials. In this post, I will go a step further and discuss benefits of implementing student-produced podcast as a class project....
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, Irvine Using the flipped classroom model has become a popular approach in higher education within the past years. In contrast to traditional classrooms in which the knowledge...
Lilly Conference, San Diego 2022 – Evidence-Based Teaching & Learning International Teaching Learning Cooperative (ITLC)
Jeanie R. C. Toscano, DTEI Pedagogical Fellow Department of Spanish & Portuguese. I attended Lilly Conference on Evidence-Based Teaching & Learning in San Diego, California in January of 2022 The in-person conference was a refreshing change of pace after...
Sharing Teaching-as-Research at a Discipline-Specific Conference
Daniel Bergman, Department of Mathematics In January 2020, I attended my first Joint Mathematics Meetings, the single biggest math conference in the world. The conference lasted five full days and took place in the spacious Colorado Convention Center in downtown...
Lilly Conference on Teaching for Active and Engaged Learning – San Diego, 2020
Katie Cox, Department of Anthropology In late February 2020 - just before the COVID-19 pandemic prompted the shutdown of university campuses and shelter-in-place orders around the world - I had the opportunity to attend a Lilly Conference in San Diego. The Lilly...
Learning with Commercial Games
Reginald T. Gardner, Department of Informatics How Videogames Teach Videogames often use reward and punishment systems, grading systems, soft resets, and other techniques to push players towards learning specific skills in order to proceed in their games. The most...