Helping All Your Students with Universal Design for Learning

By Cynthia Rutz, Director, Valparaiso Institute for Teaching and Learning (CITAL)  Many of our students are struggling right now. Some are hampered by two years of lockdown and missed learning. Others have learning disabilities, whether diagnosed or not.  How can you help these students succeed in your classes?  Christina Hearne, Director of the Access & […]

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Effective Online Teaching – Best Practices

By: Allison Hunt One might think that effective online teaching might involve a high level of tech savviness or the ability to entertain students with videos where your focus is allure rather than the content of the course. Effective online teaching is actually more simple and more doable than this, and the practices listed here […]

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Getting Students to Read for Class by Using Perusall

By Cynthia Rutz, Director of Faculty Development, CITAL   Like many of you, I have struggled to get my students to read for class.  I have tried daily reading quizzes, group presentations, even assigning questions for each reading. But nothing has worked as well as the free and easy to use app Perusall. Perusall is […]

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