Tag: Curriculum
Let’s Talk Video Game Development
By Cynthia Rutz, Director of Faculty Development A group of faculty has spent the last year exploring how Valpo can expand our curriculum offerings in the exciting and growing field of Video Game Development. In 2023, Valpo launched a new minor...
Valpo’s First Quality Matters Certified Course
By Tiffany Kolba, Mathematics & Statistics When I first heard that Valpo planned to require online summer courses to achieve Quality Matters (QM) certification (as part of an HLC initiative), I was immediately wary and skeptical. I was concerned that...
Helping Students Connect Your Class to Their Future Career
By Cynthia Rutz, Director of Faculty Development Your students may not realize it, but in your classes, they are developing the skills that their future employers are seeking. To help your students understand this connection between classroom and career, Valpo...
January Teaching Tools Symposium
By Cynthia Rutz, Director of Faculty Development, CITAL On Tuesday, January 14, 2026, CITAL held our annual Symposium on Teaching Tools. Faculty learned from their colleagues and CITAL staff about some of the best online teaching tools available to enhance...
Faculty Development Fellowship Opportunity
Do you have some pedagogical ideas that you would like to try out in your classroom? Would you like to work collegially with other faculty to learn more and to hone your ideas? Then consider applying for CITAL's Faculty Development...
Valpo’s Honor Code and AI
By Cynthia Rutz, Director of Faculty Development, CITAL Faculty are increasingly encountering AI in the classroom, whether they want it there or not. Not surprising, then, that there is an increase in the number of Honor Council (HC) cases involving...
Exploratory Learning
Written by Raina Isaacs, Instructional Designer, CITAL Exploratory learning is an active and inclusive activity that is the reverse of traditional instruction. In traditional instruction, we teach students the underlying concepts and then ask them to solve problems. In exploratory...
Christ College’s First Year Program Transitions to Canvas
By Cynthia Rutz, Director of Faculty Development, CITAL Sam Graber, Director of Christ College’s First-Year Program (FYP), oversaw the program’s move from Blackboard to Canvas this past fall. This article, based on an interview, describes that transition, and how Canvas...
January Teaching Tools Symposium
By Cynthia Rutz, Director of Faculty Development, CITAL On Tuesday, January 7, 2025, CITAL conducted a half-day Symposium on Teaching Tools. Faculty learned from their colleagues and CITAL staff about some of the best online teaching tools available to enhance...