Tag: engagement
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Making Connections Meaningful
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Article by Kris Vespia, Director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL) Last fall, our programming focus was “Assessment in the Digital Age.” In January, we transitioned with the Instructional Development Institute (IDI) to “Moving from Access to Connection,” and many of our workshops and the keynote reflected on how we…
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Spring 2026 Events & Programming Overview
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Find all of CATL’s spring events and programming in one place! We already have several new events on the calendar, in addition to our ongoing programming and online training courses. New Programming Our programming focus for spring 2026 is “Making Connections Meaningful.” Transformative Debate and Dialogue for the College Classroom | Mar. 5, 12 –…
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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…
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Why Didn’t Anyone Do Today’s Reading? – Engaging Students by Building Relationships
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Article by Pamela Rivers The semester is well under way. Your students have taken their first exam. Some are active and excelling. Others have stopped coming to class or are not completing the assigned readings. Welcome to the end of September. Maybe you thought this time it wouldn’t happen. Everyone was eager and excited and…
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Evidence-Based Frameworks and Strategies for Keeping Students Engaged
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Engaging students is a common concern among instructors. While some approaches for engaging students are contingent on modality and content area, there are also methods that can apply to courses of all types. CATL has compiled some of these key research-backed frameworks and strategies in this blog post on student engagement.