The Cowbell
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Setting the Tone for a Welcoming Classroom with a Liquid Syllabus
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At times, the syllabus can feel like a relic from a different age of academia: a formal, lengthy document that reads like a legal contract and lacks personality. In an attempt to make syllabi more engaging and student-friendly, some instructors have come up with clever ways of reimagining their syllabi. One example of this is…
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Next Steps for Moving Beyond the Asterisk and Toward Better Support for Our First Nations Students
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This past semester, CATL partnered with some of our First Nations faculty, staff, and students to bring you a series of events and resources titled “Building Our Shared Stories Through First Nations Student Engagement.” To keep the conversation going, we have collected many of the suggestions for actionable tasks from this event series and compiled…
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UWGB Team Joins National Efforts in OER Promotion and Adoption
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Building on the preliminary work for the recently funded OER Strategic Priority Initiative proposal, a small team from UW-Green Bay has been accepted to participate in the inaugural AAC&U Institute on Open Educational Resources.
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What will you carry forward?
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Last summer we all had ideas about how this year would go. This week’s blog post looks back on some common concerns from last summer to see how they have fared in the crucible of experience. Jillian Jacklin, Kiel Nikolakakis, and Heidi Sherman share their teaching experience this year and what they will carry forward…