Category: News
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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Upgrading Outdated Kaltura Players in Canvas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…
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Resources for Discussing “Thanksgiving” with Your Students
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As we approach fall recess and Thanksgiving Day, it’s important to recognize this holiday’s complicated roots. Many of us, including our students, have been taught an overly simplified or even apocryphal version of the “first Thanksgiving” meal shared between English settlers and Wampanoag natives in 1621. The real story is far more complex, interwoven with…
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Event Follow-Up: Ride the Active Learning Train
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At CATL’s most recent Wacky Wednesday event on September 25, we embarked on a cross-continental ride aboard the active learning train with the engaging board game “Ticket to Ride.” This hands-on session gave us a chance to “lay the tracks” for active learning strategies that can improve student retention and success in any discipline. Active…