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"Constrain the classroom: Predictable patterns to encourage student engagement and creativity"
Encouraging engagement and creative responses from students whose backgrounds vary poses…
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Cecilia Giulivi shares how concerns about authentic and sustained learning in her biochemistry course led her to substitute a one-page essay for the more typical multiple-choice questions test to…
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Ted Geier discusses his efforts to provide his students opportunities to see, think, and write beyond the strictures of our productivity-focused society.
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Susan Abplanalp shares how she creates and manages groups in her drawing classes. She discusses how the deliberate mixing of skill levels and the opportunities to build community benefits students.
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Laci Gerhart shares her teaching experiences in the unique no-tech setting of a California prison. She describes the data collection the learners participate in and the challenges of providing…
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In this wide-ranging conversation, Bwalya and Andy talk about the importance of listening to student feedback and the power of the "Know Your Students" tool. Bwalya shares her DEI efforts…
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Janine L.F. Wilson describes the role that videos from UC Davis economics alumni play in her classes. Such sharings and testimonials provide context for problem sets and also introduce current…
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Dr. Jane Beal talks about the importance of writing as a "translation" between people with different areas of expertise, as well as the value of seeing and then telling the stories found in…
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Kenji Quides discusses the challenges of moving from teaching small to large classes, and shares an example of an interactive activity using a heat map that meaningfully engaged students in one of…
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Delmar Larsen provides updates on the no-cost online textbook system that he has created, including the languages in which materials are available, the countries in which the system is used, the…
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The Collaborative Syllabus:
Unmuting Students by Inviting them into Course Design
In collaborative syllabus-building the term begins with an
unfinished syllabus in which students are invited to…
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To emphasize professional students’ ability to retrieve and critically appraise information sources in the model of Problem-based and Case-based Learning, the UC Davis School of Veterinary…
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Dr. Joe Anistranski, a lecturer in Human Ecology who recently left UC Davis for the greener pastures of Portland, Maine, titled his talk "Four Years, No Scantrons: A Retrospective." In this…
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Art Studio assistant professor Timothy Hyde uses Otter.ai, an audio transcription app supercharged by artificial intelligence, to recognize individual voices and record student workshop conversations…
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Mark Verbitsky is an Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Political Science department, teaching classes on constitutional law and American political theory. Among his pedagogical interests are…
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A Conversation About International Teaching with Elizabeth Langridge-Noti and Jolynn Shoemaker: A SITT 2022 Interview with Dr. Andy Jones. In this interview, Elizabeth Langridge-Noti, UC Davis…
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