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Gamification and Assessment Concept Maps

By Lorenzo Brancaleon, Ph.D.UTSA 2022-2023 Next-Gen Leadership FellowProfessor, Department of Physics and Astronomy In the previous post I argued how gamification offers, among other benefits,...

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How Gamification Changed My Assessment Strategy

By Lorenzo Brancaleon, Ph.D. UTSA 2022-2023 Next-Gen Leadership Fellow Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy When I started writing this second blog post, I wanted...

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Flipped Classroom Model and Gamification

By Lorenzo Brancaleon, Ph.D. UTSA 2022-2023 Next-Gen Leadership Fellow Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy Academic Innovation (AI) is excited to offer the latest round...

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Behind the Course – Leadership and Science Integration Program

By Brett W. Copeland, Academic Strategic Communications Chris Packham, professor in the College of Sciences’ Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Carmen Fies, associate professor...

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Creating an Inclusive Teaching Environment

By M. Sidury Christiansen, PhD UTSA 2021-2022 Next-Gen Provost Fellow Associate Professor, COEHD Bicultural Bilingual STD This week our Teaching Tip comes from Dina Drozdov,...

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Managing Big Projects

By M. Sidury Christiansen, PhD UTSA 2021-2022 Next-Gen Provost Fellow Associate Professor, COEHD Bicultural Bilingual STD This week our Teaching Tip comes from Ian Thacker,...

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Promoting Higher Level Thinking

By M. Sidury Christiansen, PhD UTSA 2021-2022 Next-Gen Provost Fellow Associate Professor, COEHD Bicultural Bilingual STD This week our Teaching Tip comes from Whitney Chappell,...

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How digital discussions spark connection and collaboration

By Brett W. Copeland, Academic Strategic Communications There are two types of conversations happening online about M. Sidury Christiansen’s class BBL 7213 Ethnological Theory. The ‘official’ or...

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Handling Difficult Discussions

By M. Sidury Christiansen, PhD UTSA 2021-2022 Next-Gen Provost Fellow Associate Professor, COEHD Bicultural Bilingual STD This week our Teaching Tip comes from Zaid Haddad,...

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Ways to Promote Student Engagement

By M. Sidury Christiansen, PhD UTSA 2021-2022 Next-Gen Provost Fellow Associate Professor, COEHD Bicultural Bilingual STD This week our Teaching Tip comes from Alex Mejia,...

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Play@ UTSA – Teaching Strategies for Gamification

31 January 2023

Join this inaugural faculty panel to explore how to transform learning by engaging undergraduate and graduate students in a more interactive, creative, and collaborative environment in all course modalities. Through gamification, learners are challenged to work more toward mastery than grade-based academic achievement. This can lead to a more meaningful and deeper understanding of [...]

Faculty Coffee Hour

1 February 2023

The Faculty Coffee Hour is designed to provide faculty members with the space to discuss current issues they are facing in an inclusive and supportive environment. During these sessions Faculty work together on finding solutions, connecting to resources and encouraging diverse perspectives and ideas. Creating an inclusive learning environment is important to us. To [...]

Strategies for Inclusive Teaching Institute (SITI)

7 February 2023

This institute will run February 7 – April 4 and is taught in a hybrid format with sessions on February 7, 10am – 11am; February 15, 10am – 11am; February 21, 10am – 11am; March 1, 10am – 11am; March 21, 10am – 11am; March 29, 10am – 11am; & April 4, 10am – [...]

Accessibility Quick Fixes

7 February 2023

Making your course content accessible benefits all learners in your course. Making quick changes to your course content are easier than it looks! Join us to learn more about the quick changes you can make to your content to improve the learning experience for your students. By attending this course, participants will be able [...]

Faculty Mini-Retreat: Learner Engagement

7 February 2023

Join Academic Innovation to chat about how you can engage your learners via active learning techniques and experiential learning. We will provide you with hands-on personal experiences and ask you to incorporate what you learned to apply to your classroom materials. As a result, we will create a welcoming classroom environment that is engaging [...]

Teaching Support Hours

27 February 2023

Academic Innovation will be providing office hours for faculty to help with any teaching support needs for midterms. Creating an inclusive learning environment is important to us. To request an accommodation, please email DigitalAccessibility@utsa.edu one week prior to your scheduled training. [...]

Teaching Support Hours

3 March 2023

Fostering Student Success with OER: A Conversation with Students, Faculty & Administrators

7 March 2023

In this UTSA Libraries & UTSA Academic Innovation sponsored panel, hear perspectives on open educational resources (OER) from a variety of UTSA stakeholders. UTSA Student Government will share the stresses of textbooks and why OER are a great fit for UTSA students. UTSA faculty will share how they are creating OER for their courses: [...]

Teaching Support Hours

10 May 2023

Academic Innovation will be providing office hours for faculty to help with any teaching support needs for finals. Creating an inclusive learning environment is important to us. To request an accommodation, please email DigitalAccessibility@utsa.edu one week prior to your scheduled training. [...]

Teaching Support Hours

12 May 2023