Nicole Albada receives Hybrid Online Technology Grant (HOT) for Teaching
A teaching project to help undergraduate students gain insights into aging directly from older adults
Professor Albada received the Hybrid Online Technology (HOT) grant for a video project to be used in her Adult Development and Aging course. The project includes developing a series of videos of older adults discussing their experiences of aging. These videos will include interviews with older adults, the challenges they face, and the promises that aging holds, which can be difficult for young adults to envision. Intertwined with the course concepts, students will respond to these videos and think critically about the messages older adults are sending.
In introducing students to age-related gains and losses in cognition, social relationships, personality, and emotion, Dr. Albada hopes that this video project will give her students a chance to think about their own aging, contemplating the passing of time in a more personal way by having them hear from older adults themselves.
Nicole Albada is a CALS-affiliate from the Psychological and Brain Sciences Department at UCSB and the Director for Education & Outreach of CALS.
