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About & Consultations

We are a collaborative team comprised of several partners including Academic and Emerging Technologies (AET), the Center for Engaged Teaching and Learning (CETL), and Students Assessing Teaching and Learning (SATAL). Our Mission is to provide a centralized physical and virtual location for programs, resources, and services focused on delivering student-centered, innovative, and high-quality learning experiences to improve student outcomes.  


Pedagogy Consultations

Our pedagogy and education research experts can help you think about strategies to promote inclusion and equity in the classroom, design a course from outcomes to assessments, evaluate teaching efficacy, analyze course evaluations, clarify course outcomes and objectives, assist with classroom alignment, develop assessments and syllabi, and so much more.

Pedagogy Consultations


Technology Consultations

Our academic technology experts and instructional designers can help you integrate remote teaching into your course, organize your CatCourse pages, build accessibility and inclusion into the course structure, optimize and integrate Zoom, Canvas, Clickers, and other instructional tools, and so much more.

Technology Consultations


OUR PEOPLE

Eileen Camfield

Eileen Camfield Ed.D.
  • Interim Director
  • Center for Engaged Teaching and Learning

Ed.D. Higher Education

Pronouns: she, her, hers

ecamfield@ucmerced.edu

Rachel Leigh Bellofatto

Rachel Leigh Bellofatto M.S.
  • Director, Academic & Emerging Technologies
  • Academic and Emerging Technologies

M.S. Instructional Technology and Design

Pronouns:

rpeters3@ucmerced.edu, rbellofatto@ucmerced.edu

Jackie Shay

Jackie Shay Ph.D.
  • Associate Director
  • Center for Engaged Teaching and Learning

Ph.D. Quantitative and Systems Biology

Pronouns: she, her, hers

jshay@ucmerced.edu

Adriana Signorini

Adriana Signorini Ed.D.
  • Students Assessing Teaching and Learning (SATAL) Program Coordinator
  • Educational Assessment Coordinator
  • Center for Engaged Teaching and Learning

M.A. TEFL & Applied Linguistics

Pronouns: she, her, hers

asignorini@ucmerced.edu

Joan Holmquist

Joan Holmquist M.Ed.
  • Senior Instructional Designer
  • Academic and Emerging Technologies

M.Ed. Instructional Tools

Pronouns: she, her, hers

jholmquist@ucmerced.edu

Alex Hernandez
  • Service Delivery Manager
  • Academic and Emerging Technologies

Pronouns: he/him/his

ahernandez-perez2@ucmerced.edu

James Cha
  • Learning Technologies Manager
  • Academic and Emerging Technologies

Pronouns: he/him/his

jcha239@ucmerced.edu

Ramsin Tamraz

Ramsin Tamraz
  • Instructional Video Coordinator

B.A. Art

Pronouns: he, him, his

rtamraz@ucmerced.edu