XCITE launched four Faculty Learning Communities (FLC) in Spring 2023. In collaboration with the Office of the Provost and the Council of Deans, XCITE invited select faculty who teach undergraduate courses from each of UCR's colleges to participate in this new faculty professional development and course design opportunity.
The purpose of RIDLE 4X was to provide UC Riverside faculty members with time, space, and support to participate in an interdisciplinary professional development and course design collaboration to enhance their teaching, increase student success, and foster collegial discussions around teaching and learning practices at an R1 university.
RIDLE FLCs were based on a design thinking model which used human-centered collaborative research methods to foster meaningful shared understanding around teaching and learning, including opportunities to engage with faculty peers and students in a supportive and dynamic community. The underlying framework was proven to aid in the design and delivery of deep and meaningful learning experiences through the development of Social, Cognitive, and Teaching presence.
FLCs were collaborative learning experiences which united people through a common interest or set of problems. The strength of an FLC was in the interaction between participants' diverse ideas and how such dialogue created opportunities for innovative teaching and learning.
The four FLCs, and their facilitators, are the following:
RIDLE DX | Advance Digital Inclusion: Develop Equitable and Inclusive Pedagogy
- Explore digitally inclusive pedagogical competencies for teaching success
- Design course activities that support student belonging and equitable learning
- Apply learning science research to engage learners in a digital environment
- Discover tools & methods that support inclusive teaching and learning
- Identify how we can best assess if our classroom creates belongingness and is equitable
- Explore data on opportunity gaps for evidence-informed pedagogies
- Consider how we might integrate high-impact practices into your curriculum
XCITE facilitator: Dr. Deborah Nelson dnels009@ucr.edu
RIDLE FX | Foster Flexible Teaching: Design for multiple modes of learning
- Identify learning affordances of an online, hybrid, blended, or flipped classroom
- Design for multiple teaching and learning modalities
- Explore authentic assessments for addressing academic dishonesty
- Apply evidence-based practices for student engagement in multiple teaching modalities
XCITE facilitator: Dr. Swati Ramani swati.ramani@ucr.edu
RIDLE LX | Empower Active Learning: Engage Your Students
- Explore ways to improve academic achievement and to reach student outcomes more equitably using active learning strategies designed to increase student engagement and motivation.
- Share creative pedagogical or technological solutions to potential challenges that come with implementing active learning strategies.
- Develop new techniques for grading and assessing active learning.
- Familiarize yourself with ways to address some of the unique challenges that arise with active learning strategies in high-enrollment contexts.
XCITE facilitator: Samantha Eastman samantha.eastman@ucr.edu
RIDLE RX | Promote Equitable Learning: Deliver Just-in-time Academic Solutions
- Identify challenging content in past courses
- Design activities necessary to assess student understanding of content
- Identify areas of understanding and those needing intervention
- Explore solutions to content challenges with or without technology integration
- Design interventions in the form of adaptive learning, supplemental instruction, and supplemental content
- Identify resources and opportunities to supplement student understanding of the material
- Recognize the benefits that just-in-time interventions have on student engagement and motivation
XCITE facilitator: Israel Fletes israel.fletes@ucr.edu
