The Cowbell
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Call for 2026-27 Wisconsin Teaching Fellows and Scholars Program (Applications Due Friday, Nov. 21, 2025)
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The UWGB Provost Office and the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning, on behalf of the UW System’s Office of Professional and Instructional Development (OPID), invite faculty and instructional academic staff to apply for the 2026-2027 cohort of the Wisconsin Teaching Fellows and Scholars (WTFS) Program. Administered by OPID and directed by UW…
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Call for Teaching Enhancement Grant Proposals (Applications Due Monday, Dec. 1, 2025)
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The Instructional Development Council (IDC) is accepting applications for Teaching Enhancement Grants (TEGs) through support from the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL) and the Office of the Provost. TEGs provide funding for professional development activities related to teaching or for projects that lead to the improvement of teaching skills or the…
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Discipline-Specific Examples of Assessments with Responsible GAI Integration
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Instructors interested in integrating GAI in their courses often ask about examples of assignments or assessments from their discipline. To help you get started, CATL has assembled examples of GAI-infused assessments from other universities and categorized them by major disciplines available at UW-Green Bay. Each of the following assessments could be utilized, with or without…
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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…