Category: Articles
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“The Great Re-Wiring of Childhood” Goes to College: A Reflection on Jonathan Haidt’s THE ANXIOUS GENERATION
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Article by Tara DaPra, Teaching Professor & 2024-25 Instructional Development Consultant Jonathan Haidt’s new book, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, was supposed to be about how the rise of smartphones and social media were damaging democratic society. But when he wrote the chapter on…
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Regular and Substantive Interaction: Why It Matters
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What is Regular and Substantive Interaction (RSI)? Regular and substantive interaction or RSI is a requirement from the U.S. Department of Education designed to distinguish genuine distance education programs from more passive experiences, such as correspondence courses. The Department of Education describes RSI in its legal definition of “distance education,” but this explanation from Ohio…
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Understanding Today’s UWGB Students: Trends & Strategies for Success
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Article by Kris Vespia, Director of the Center of the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL) As CATL prepares for our semester-long focus on Teaching Today’s UWGB Students, the first step is to identify who those students are. There’s a common narrative out there that UW-Green Bay’s students are fundamentally different today in terms of…
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Teaching Today’s UWGB Students: A Preview of CATL’s Spring 2025 Programming Series
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Article by Kris Vespia, Director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL) One of the comments I have heard the most since becoming CATL Director is some variation on the following: “I just don’t understand students today. They [fill in the blank].” Whether that sentence is completed with “don’t do their…
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Assessment and Assignment Guidance in the GAI Era
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CATL is often asked questions about how to approach assessments in the wake of easy access to generative artificial intelligence (GAI). We hope to crowd-source suggestions and examples from our own instructors so that we can build a repository of work from the UWGB community in Canvas. Please take our GAI Assignment Repository survey if…