The Cowbell
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Digital Accessibility Tip: When to Use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on PDFs
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Optical character recognition, or OCR, is an automated process that turns an image of text into machine-readable characters that can be parsed by technologies like screen readers. OCR is a very important step for making some PDFs accessible, but it isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach. Knowing where and when to use OCR is important for making…
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Recognizing Faculty and Staff Completion of the 2025-2026 “Teaching with AI” Course
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The Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL) is pleased to acknowledge the following faculty and staff who successfully completed the 2025-2026 cohort of Auburn University’s Teaching with Artificial Intelligence course, reflecting their ongoing dedication to professional development. The current list reflects those who completed during the summer of 2025 and earned the…
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Eat & Educate Series Fall 2025
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AI is already being used in creative and unexpected ways across our campuses. To help faculty and staff learn from one another, the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL) and the Division of IT (GBIT) are continuing the Provost-sponsored Eat & Educate series this fall. This semester, we’ll host three lunchtime sessions,…
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Digital Online Whiteboards
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Interactive digital online whiteboards offer a shared virtual space for instructors and students to collaborate, brainstorm, and engage with course content simultaneously or asynchronously. Like their physical counterparts, they help explain concepts, illustrate examples, and present information in ways that allow students to visualize key points. At UW-Green Bay, instructors have access to three main…
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“Opposite of Cheating” Book Group Fall Sign-Up
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Are you interested in exploring ways to promote academic integrity in the era of GenAI? CATL is sponsoring small book groups this fall semester centered around the 2025 book, The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI by Tricia Bertram Gallant and David A. Rettinger. These groups will meet two or three times…