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learning

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A new chapter in teaching

UCI School of Education helps students, instructors navigate changing landscape

Gates Foundation grant funds study of factors that prompt youth interest in certain careers

June Ahn, associate professor of education, has received a three-year, $500,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to conduct a study identifying factors that motivate youth toward occupational careers. Ahn and his team will be working with K-12 after-school program educators and participants to gain an understanding of the key experiences that shape […]

Nathalie Mejia CalTeach, Education, Biological Sciences

Curating curiosity

Science and math majors find creative support for themselves and their students through CalTeach program

Avatars summarize students’ progress on research projects in a UCI course that takes place in a fantastical 3D online environment called Anteater Island.

Anteater Island

Anthropology professor teaches class on digital cultures by creating his own virtual community – where COVID-19 isn’t a threat

Mark Warschauer, UCI professor of education, citing one way online learning might leave some students further behind.

The post-pandemic education landscape

UCI professor warns that coronavirus-prompted changes could worsen disparities in academic achievement between low- and high-income students

UCI faculty create curricula for kids worldwide confined by coronavirus

U.N.-sponsored Earth School will help children learn about environment

The Anteater butterfly effect

‘Small token of appreciation’ leads to surprise gifts for new UCI medical students

Arts trek

Class boldly goes on 1,900-mile mission to explore artworks embedded in the environment

Carol Booth Olson

UCI gets $5 million to establish first national R&D center on improving writing skills

Focus will be on identifying best teaching practices in middle, high school classrooms

Associate professor of education Drew Bailey is named Jacobs Foundation Research Fellow

Drew Bailey, UCI associate professor of education, has been selected as a 2019-2021 Jacobs Foundation Research Fellow. The highly competitive global fellowship program lets early- and midcareer recipients in all scholarly disciplines concentrate on projects to improve child and youth development. Bailey’s work focuses on the processes underlying the stability of individual differences in youngsters’ […]