The TLC’s Maintaining Instructional Continuity page has newly-added resources for supporting instructor wellbeing during this unprecedented and uncertain time.

Christine Holten

Secondary Collaborators Laurel Westrup, Continuing Lecturer Tamar Christensen, Continuing Lecturer Darien Battle, Continuing Lecturer  Liz Galvin Lew, Sr. Continuing Lecturer  Dana Cairns Watson, Continuing Lecturer Initiative in generative AI and composition instruction Writing Programs’ primary charge is to help students hone their academic writing and reading skills, so we are on the front lines as […]

Mackenzie Day

Virtual Geoscience Field Trips Field trips are well-established as highly impactful experiences that enhance learning and improve overall educational outcomes, particularly in geoscience education. At UCLA, approximately half of the advanced geoscience courses include some form of field trip, but these are often costly and limited to local areas, restricting access to certain types of […]

Mireille Kamariza

Secondary Collaborators Richard Wesel, Professor and Associate Dean Randall Fallows, Lecturer Dino Di Carlo, Professor and Chair of Bioengineering Jacob Schmidt, Professor of Bioengineering Yang Yang, Professor and Chair of Materials Science and Engineering Development of Writing II Courses for BioEngineering and Materials Science BioEngineering would like to offer a Bioengineering/Biomedical Engineering-focused ethics and Writing […]

Serena Wang

Secondary Collaborators Sarah Gustafson, Assistant Professor Peter Quiros, Professor Anders Garlid, Postdoctoral scholar AI for Learning Branch: AI Clinical Reasoning Tutor Recent widespread generative AI(Gen AI) adoption before AI guidance/regulation has posed unprecedented challenges in maintaining the quality and integrity of medical education. Thankfully, Generative AI can also accelerate and personalize medical education. We believe […]

Rana Khankan

Secondary Collaborators Jessica Gregg, Academic Coordinator Jay Phelan, Academic Administrator Advancing Science Literacy & Self-Advocacy Skills to Close Equity Gaps in LS7C The goal of this project is to test the hypothesis that targeted support modules that provide guidance on science literacy and student advocacy skills will reduce or eliminate disparities in outcomes for underrepresented […]

Yue-Ming Huang

Secondary Collaborators  Daniel Weisman  Ken Lay Warren Scott Comulada Creating AI Simulations to Practice Communication Skills The goal of this project is to introduce health professions educators, clinicians, and medical and nursing students to the practical and ethical use of large language models (LLMs) and other generative AI tools in education and clinical training. Through […]

Tawny Paul

Diversifying Career Pathways for Students in History Majoring in history has incredible advantages for students. It fosters creativity and problem-solving abilities, teaches students how to do in-depth research, and requires them to make arguments and articulate them through different media and to different audiences. However, for most history majors, it is not obvious how to […]

Ian Roberts

RemoteRF: An Active Learning Platform for Undergraduate and Graduate Courses on Wireless Communication and Signal Processing This Tier 3 Catalyst proposal seeks support from TLC to further develop an innovative teaching platform called RemoteRF, which enables scalable active learning of electrical engineering curriculum. The principal advantage of the RemoteRF platform is that it allows each […]

Michelle Rensel

Assessing the Impacts of a Cross-Disciplinary Role-Playing Intervention in a Large General Education Course This project will formally assess the impacts of a historical role-playing exercise on critical thinking, scientific literacy, and core self-efficacy and perspective-taking skills amongst first year undergraduates in a large general education course. The game positions students as characters in a […]

Lauren Clark

Secondary Collaborators Eric Sung, Professor of Clinical Dentistry and Momentum Endowed Chair in Special Patient Care Theresa Brown, DNP, ACNP-BC, AACC, FAANP, Adjunct Assistant Professor Amy Simons, Chief Operating Officer, MOMENTUM Kelly Vitzthum, DDS, MPH, Assistant Clinical Professor Elizabeth Thomas, PhD, ANP-BC, COHN-S, FAAOHN, Adjunct Associate Professor MoDeRN: Interprofessional Disability Clinical Competencies for Doctoral Students […]

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