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Innovative teaching: Assistant professor keeps lessons simple
Logan Fiorella incorporates examples and visualizations into his lessons and presents information in a conversational style to engage students in creative activities.
Word choice matters in weather communications
Research by professor Alan Stewart shows certain phrases can make people feel helpless when facing storms.
Innovative teaching: Associate professor creates a virtual safe space
Using a virtual hosting site and avatars, associate professor Jori N. Hall aims to create a safe meeting space.
Innovative teaching: Clinical assistant professor combines service learning with hybrid teaching in tutoring program
When the pandemic hit, David Chiesa developed a hybrid teaching model to tutor young language learners at Bay Creek Elementary School.
Innovative teaching: Senior lecturer makes physical education personal, accessible from home
Ilse Mason helped expand the use of Fitbits and other heart rate tracking devices to improve physical education students’ overall well-being both in-person and at home.
Weight loss shouldn't be the goal of PE
A new study lead by Sami Yli-Piipari, an associate professor in the department of kinesiology, shows kids’ physical fitness is more important than BMI.
Pandemic poses new challenges for deaf community
Lecturer Brian Leffler highlights the challenges of teaching American Sign Language virtually during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lecturer uses grant to support research on cognitive learning
Lecturer Amanda Ferster received a Learning Technologies Grant from UGA's Center for Teaching and Learning to support her research on cognitive learning.
Assistant professor named USG Chancellor's Learning Scholar
Jill Stefaniak, an assistant professor in the department of career and information studies, was recently selected to join the University System of Georgia Chancellor’s Learning Scholars.
Study to make computer science more accessible, fun for young students
Researchers from Clemson University and the UGA College of Education will partner with rural schools in South Carolina on a three-year research project to make computer science more accessible and fun for young students.