Author: Carolyn Speer

February 14, 2023 — Each month, the Office of Instructional Resources (OIR) publishes Teaching Today, a teaching-focused newsletter for instructors at WSU. For February's issue, OIR highlights many things it loves, including free training resources, Blackboard Ultra updates, an archive of available data sets and more.

February 9, 2023 — Thanks to COVID relief funds, WSU has been able to offer free human captioning on Panopto videos for the last few years. The money has been spent, and the service will discontinue as of the last day of February.

January 25, 2023 — Each month, the Office of Instructional Resources publishes Teaching Today, a teaching-focused newsletter for instructors at WSU.

January 6, 2023 — Free artificial intelligence (AI) tools that can write full essays are now here. In the past two months, free online AI tools have gone from being able to write reasonable paragraphs from a simple prompt to producing full essays with citations on more complex topics.

December 16, 2022 — The Winter Teaching Today provides an opportunity to learn more about the January Academic Resources Conference and the many ways it will be tackling issues surrounding digital transformation and artificial intelligence. 

December 8, 2022 — The Academic Resources Conference (ARC) is back for a week of events Jan. 9-13! In addition to some technical training, the conference will focus on the impact digital transformation has on education, and the full campus community is invited.

November 17, 2022 — The November edition of Teaching Today is all about gratitude.

October 25, 2022 — Each month, the Office of Instructional Resources publishes a teaching-centered newsletter called Teaching Today. The October issue of  Teaching Today addresses the very important topic of digital transformation, and we are excited to share this conversation with our campus industry partners.

October 25, 2022 — The October issue of  Teaching Today addresses the very important topic of digital transformation. From what it is to where it’s going, we cover as many aspects of digital transformation as we could.

September 29, 2022 — The September issue of Teaching Today is now available. The September 2022 issue has information about Suicide Prevention training, the upcoming January Academic Resources Conferece and information about the Course Messages feature in Blackboard.