Dear Colleagues,

Welcome back, we hope you all had a wonderful holiday weekend. It was nice to see the sun out and temperatures on the rise. With Spring finally upon us (we hope anyway), CITAL brings you the next installment of our newsletter. In this issue, we begin by focusing on a few examples of the experiential learning component in the new Valparaiso University Experience (VUE) courses. Next, we highlight our newest cohort of faculty to attend and complete the Applying the Quality Matters Rubric (APPQMR) workshop offered earlier this semester.

Recently, the CITAL team was able to accompany Valpo faculty to the Midwest SoTL Conference, and we highlight the presentations below. Finally, we share some information about Khanmigo, a new AI teaching assistant tool available in Canvas, while also providing important information about the upcoming migration. Thank you all, and please reach out with any questions.

Sincerely,

The CITAL Team (Ed, Gina, and Cindy)

Eleven more faculty members participated in this year's first  Quality Matters workshop at Valpo: Applying the QM Rubric (APPQMR). See the photo below. These faculty learned about the underlying principles behind the QM Rubric and the critical elements of QM's quality assurance process for designing online and hybrid courses. Each workshop participant earned the QM certificate. This QM credential is quite a professional achievement for them and an asset for Valpo. Please join CITAL in giving kudos to these individuals for their success and achievement of the APPQMR certification. Look for future announcements for more QM workshop offerings coming soon this summer and fall at Valpo.