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Department of Teaching and Learning News

The central mission of the Department of Teaching and Learning is to perform educational research and prepare educators at all levels. We ensure that our professional education programs are based on essential knowledge, established and current research findings, and sound professional practice.

Current Teaching and Learning News

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Research |

The College of Education's National Institute for the Advancement of Education awarded four faculty research grants that will explore potential solutions for retaining Nevada's teachers.

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People |

When not dreaming of travel or watching baseball, this administrative assistant efficiently manages the Department of Teaching and Learning.

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Campus News |

GeoPaths program leads to more student-centered and interactive Earth science classes.

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Business and Community |

The collaborative initiative offers training opportunities to assist teachers in developing a more comprehensive STEM curriculum for the classroom.

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Campus News |

A collection of news stories highlighting the experts and student changemakers at UNLV.

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Campus News |

A collection of news stories highlighting expert insights, new collaborations, and academic achievement.

Teaching and Learning In The News

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Drowsy driving among college students and young drivers in America is a public health challenge that critically impacts road safety drives with the rising number of accidents involving the youth and new drivers, according to a new study published by the public health experts of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV).

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Three months after a shooter opened fire on the UNLV campus — terrorizing students, staff and faculty members — the campus seemed normal Tuesday. The weather was picture perfect, birds were chirping and students moved about the campus walkways just outside the Student Union.

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KTNV-TV: ABC 13

With ongoing contract disputes between Clark County School District and Clark County Education Association, many question what the future of teachers will look like.

Scripps National News

A 2020 University of Nevada, Las Vegas study recruited those suffering from substance use disorder to participate in a 14-week exercise training program that would conclude with them participating in a race.

KNPR News

From self-driving cars, to virtual assistants on smartphones, artificial intelligence has become a big part of our lives. But what happens when we combine artificial intelligence with cutting-edge chatbots like Chat GPT and ask it to write college essays.

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Recent Teaching and Learning Accomplishments

Associate professor of mathematics education Kari Kokka (Teaching and Learning) gave the opening keynote, "Who is in the frame?," for the California Math Council North Annual Conference in Asilomar, California, on Dec. 6, 2024. 
Chyllis E. Scott (Teaching and Learning), her doctoral students, Sonja Howard and Katherine Hallford (both Teaching and Learning), and colleagues Mae Lane of Sam Houston State University, Cindy Benge of Eastern New Mexica University, and Montana K. McCormick of Towson University, recently published an article, "Examining Asynchronous Virtual…
Danielle Mireles (Teaching and Learning) and Anna Acha (University of California, Riverside) recently published a co-authored chapter, "From compliance culture to liberatory access: reimagining disabled & deaf futurities on college campuses and beyond," in the Handbook of Race and Refusal in Higher Education: Like a Path in Tall…
Michael McCreery (Interaction and Media Sciences) and Kathleen Krach (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) co-authored a paper with doctoral students Danielle Head, Joey Fiorentini, Zandy Leung, and Sam Leif (all Interaction and Media Sciences). The paper titled, “Examining player estimates of prior video gaming experience:…
Iesha Jackson (Teaching and Learning) and Doris Watson (Educational Psychology, Leadership and Higher Education) participated in a panel discussion with colleagues Claytee White (Oral History Research Center) and Norma Marrun (Teaching and Learning) and former students Kenneth Brown II, Laurents Banuelos-Benitez, and Marbella Alfonso, all who…
Kari Kokka (Teaching and Learning) published an article "A Love Letter to Women, Femme, and Nonbinary Critical Scholars of Color: Theorizing the Four I’s of Love in SiSTARhood" with her colleagues. Rochelle Gutiérrez and Marrielle Myers in the Qualitative Inquiry journal.