The Humanities Welcome is an annual event held at the beginning of the academic year that invites faculty, staff and students to come together to showcase the Humanities at UCLA. At this event we will introduce the UCLA campus to the benefits of coursework and degrees in the Humanities. The program includes an introduction from...
Please see the following information for UCLA Library’s Open Access Week program (all time in PST): Open Axis Returns! Monday (10/25) 9:00 am to Friday (10/29) 5:00 pm Join and play the open access roll-playing video game A Case for Creating OERs Wednesday (10/27) 3:00-3:30 pm Presentation by Dr. Asako Hayashi Takakura and Tomoko Bialock about...
EPIC cordially invites you to “Improvising the Classroom: Multimodal Strategies for Active Learning,” a part of the Small Changes, Big Impact Workshop Series (SCBI). EPIC’s signature Small Changes, Big Impact is a set of workshops on inclusive and equitable teaching practices. This workshop is designed for instructors who wish to incorporate active learning activities...
EPIC-Lang is happy to announce the Tips, Tricks and Treats talk series on language instruction. Dr. Beyza Lorenz, our first speaker in the series, will focus on interactive, collaborative assignments and activities in synchronous online courses in this talk. Dr. Lorenz will particularly focus on new tools and technologies in online language instruction and provide...
EPIC-Lang presents "The Communication “C” and Technology", a talk by Bhavya Singh as part of the Tips, Tricks, and Treats talk series. This talk aims to share with language educators the use of immersive educational technology tools in language classrooms to enhance learners’ language proficiency and performance. Examples will be presented from all three modes...
EPIC, CEILS, and CAT are pleased to announce two speakers from The Arthur Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center. Family medicine physician, Dr. Erin Gleason, and Amrit Nagra, MPH, Director of Clinical Operations, will join Professor Megan McEvoy for the "End of Fall Forum: Towards Wellness in the COVID Classroom." As we conclude the...
EPIC-Lang's newest Tips, Tricks, and Treats talk "Designing Online Language Modules", invites you to explore various sequences for organizing language learning in online modules. Dr. Kim DeBacco, a Senior Instructional Designer with the UCLA Online Teaching and Learning team, will share models and samples to inspire instructors' course design. This seminar will consider factors that...
EPIC's signature Ready, Set, Teach! event invites the community of Humanities instructors at UCLA to come together for practical discussions on topics in teaching and learning. EPIC welcomes the Winter quarter with insights from undergraduate students on what it means to be a student in this pandemic era and what they’d like their instructors to know. Topics include the impact of...
EPIC-Lang presents “Entering the World of Asynchronous Online Language Courses: A Personal Journey”, a talk by Dr. Magda Tarnawska Senel as part of the Tips, Tricks, and Treats talk series. Dr. Tarnawska Senel is the Director of the German Language Program and Lecturer at the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies at UCLA. Her...
EPIC cordially invites you to “Using Video to Enhance Classroom Learning”, a part of the Small Changes, Big Impact Workshop Series (SCBI). EPIC’s signature Small Changes, Big Impact is a set of workshops on inclusive and equitable teaching practices that can be easily implemented in class with minimal preparation either synchronously or asynchronously. This...
