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Mid-term Student Feedback
by Jen Gregory, Director of Instructional Design If you’re like most people, when you eat a meal at a restaurant you appreciate the waiter or waitress coming by and checking on your soon after you’ve received your meal and probably...
What All Faculty Need to Know about Disability Support
Spotlight: What All Faculty Need to Know about Disability Support CITAL Monthly Faculty Workshop By Jen Gregory, Director of Instruction Design and Zebadiah Hall, Disability Support Coordinator NOTE: Each month one CITAL blog will summarize the CITAL Faculty Workshop of...
…with a little help from your friends
Classroom Observations by Jen Gregory and Cynthia Rutz Teaching can be an isolating activity. It is hard to know whether things you are trying in the classroom are working well or not. Would you like some friendly feedback on your...
Technology: Neither Culprit nor Savior
By: Allison Hunt On the heels of the last article (Effective Online Teaching -Best Practices), we explore the question: how can I use technology to address my pedagogical challenges? Technology is primarily a utility for teaching and learning. When...
Effective Online Teaching – Best Practices
By: Allison Hunt One might think that effective online teaching might involve a high level of tech savviness or the ability to entertain students with videos where your focus is allure rather than the content of the course. Effective online...
Three New Faculty Learning Communities To Begin this September
By Cynthia Rutz, Director of Faculty Development Last spring, faculty voted to launch three new faculty learning communities at Valpo to begin this fall. A faculty learning community (FLC) meets regularly to explore a teaching topic that interests them. This...
What to Do on the First Day of Class
by Jen Gregory, Director of Instructional Design Do you remember attending the first day of a college class? After receiving the syllabus and listening to a quick monologue from your instructor, you were probably excused for the rest of...
Five Ways to Make Your Syllabus Awesome!
by Jen Gregory, Director of Instructional Design Spend some time planning (or reviewing) the course Imagine you signed up for an African safari. You were told that you’d see lions, elephants, giraffes, rhino and zebras. But at the end...
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