Category: News
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Teaching Strategy Spotlight – Debate on High Capacity Wells
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Rebecca Abler, Manitowoc Campus, Natural and Applied Sciences Department About the Professor Rebecca Abler is a Wisconsin native with a degree in Biology from UW-Oshkosh. She graduated with a PhD in 2004 and then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at UW- Madison. She became a faculty member in 2005 in Manitowoc and is now a…
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Teaching Strategy Spotlight – PostSecret Writing Project
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Jonas Gardsby, Green Bay Campus, English Department and Writing & Applied Arts About the Professor Jonas Gardsby is in his third year as an Assistant Professor at UWGB. Previously, he completed an MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in English at the University of Colorado. He earned his PhD in early modern literature at…
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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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Call for Faculty College 2025 (Applications Due Jan. 8, 2025)
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Each year, educators from across the Universities of Wisconsin gather for Faculty College, an institute and retreat led by the Office of Professional & Instructional Development (OPID). The 45th Annual Faculty College will be held at the Osthoff Resort at Elkhart Lake (close to three of our four locations in Sheboygan County) on May…
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Upgrading Outdated Kaltura Players in Canvas
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If you use Kaltura to embed videos in your Canvas courses, you may have noticed a change in the appearance of the video player for newly embedded videos. Kaltura video embeds created since August 5, 2024, use an updated “v7” player, which offers faster loading times and new features, including a searchable transcript panel, which…