In October 2021, UCR virtually hosted OSU faculty and staff for the "Teaching in the Round: Faculty Summit" to share experiences and knowledge with UCR faculty who were preparing to teach in the newly opened classroom in the round. A follow-up symposium in March 2023, organized by Richard Lawrence Edwards, executive director for the XCITE Center for Teaching and Learning, UCR, brought representatives from OSU and UCLA to the UCR campus for presentations of ongoing research and for discussions with faculty who had taught or were preparing to teach in the classroom in the round.
Overview
What is XCITE Research?
XCITE research is a mixed-methods research collaborative investigating teaching and learning to inform future directions and enhance the student and faculty experience. XCITE partners and collaborates with UCR faculty and students, local, regional, and national organizational partners, and institutions within and beyond the UC system.
How Can XCITE Support Your Research?
XCITE Research is open to discussing new ways of supporting and collaborating on your teaching-related or user experience research. A sampling includes:
- Letters of support for the scholarship of teaching and learning and/or pedagogical research
- Partnership or collaboration on internal and/or external research grants
- Graphics or visualization support (subject to recharge rate)
- Multimedia and/or video support for externally-funded research grants (subject to recharge rate)
- Proposal or budget planning for course development or teaching-related research projects
- Research assistance with classroom teaching observation protocols
- Usability studies or focus groups for course development
ARTICLES/PUBLICATION
- Rockey, A., Cohn, J., & Eastman, S. (2023). Reducing access barriers: Exploring student smartphone use across higher education institutions. Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 13, 285–303. https://doi.org/10.5590/JERAP.2023.13.1.20
- Johns, Eric, Ditta, Annie S., Eastman, Samantha, and Diermyer, Cheryl. 2022. XCITE Research Briefs
- Mindy Colin, Samantha Eastman, Margaret Merrill and Alex Rockey. 2021. “Leveraging Mobile Technology to Achieve Teaching Goals.” Educause Review. https://er.educause.edu/articles/2021/3/leveraging-mobile-technology-to-achieve-teaching-goals
- Rockey, A., Eastman, S., Colin, M., and Merrill, M. (2019). “Spotlighting innovative use cases of mobile learning.” The Emerging Learning Design Journal, 6(1), Article 3. https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/eldj/vol6/iss1/3
