We are a team with diverse skill sets. As educators, scholars, and artists ourselves, we study how learning sciences and technologies can help learners succeed in learning and educators enjoy their teaching. We rely and thrive on partnerships with subject matter experts who derive mutual benefit from partnering with us.
Our Mission
Teaching & Learning Innovations advances CSUCI’s mission by cultivating a space and professional home for learning, literacy, innovation, and productive play. We are stewards of technology and pedagogy, and we embody what it means for higher education to be a team endeavor.
Our Vision
We aim to be a hub for innovation large and small, a space for integrative collaboration, and a center of expertise in teaching, learning, and inclusive approaches to technology.
Online Course Service (OCS) Leads
Megan Eberhardt-Alstot continued as a Learning Designer Lead working with the Learning Design Team and campus partners to develop multimodal teaching and learning opportunities and inclusive solutions to support the success of all our students.
Rachael Jordan continued as the Faculty Lead for CI Quality Assurance. Rachael is a full-time Lecturer in the English Department and an experienced online instructor. Rachael continues to facilitate faculty learning experiences, provide course and program feedback, and contributes her expertise to inform the work of the Learning Design Team.
Core TLi Team
Leadership
- Jill Leafstedt, Ph.D. – Dean of Extended University & AVP of Digital Learning
- Lorna Gonzalez, Ph.D. – Director of Digital Learning
Academic Technology & Media
- Michael McGarry –Academic Technology Team Lead
- Benjamin Hytrek – Academic Media Lead
- Isaac Ortiz – Academic & Media Technologist
Accessibility & Inclusive Learning Design
- Kristi O’Neil- Accessibility & Inclusive Design Lead
- Megan Eberhardt-Alstot – Learning Design Lead & OCS Staff Lead
- Georgia Van Tyne – Learning Designer
- Rachael Jordan – OCS Faculty Lead & Learning Designer/ FT English Lecturer
Student Assistants
- Harrison Kyriacou
- Arianna Miller
- Zoe Bones
Learning Design & OCS Team
- Megan Eberhardt-Alstot – Learning Design Lead/OCS Staff Lead
- Rachael Jordan – Full-Time English Lecturer/OCS Faculty Lead
- Kristi O’Neil Gonzalez – Accessibility & inclusive Design Lead/Instructional Technologist
- Georgia Van Tyne – Learning Designer
Faculty Fellows
- Jaimie Hannans (2016)
- Jacob Jenkins (2016)
- Ekin Pehlivan (2017)
- Heather Castillo (2017)
- Talya Drescher (2018)
- Sean Kelley (2018)
- Stacey Anderson (2019)
- Luis Sanchez (2019)
- Kim Vose – (2019)
- Emily Fairfax (2020)
- Jackie Reynoso (2020)
- Antonio Jimenez Jimenez (2022)
- Dana Baker (2022)
