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Be a Life-long Learner with LinkedIn Learning at UChicago
What is LinkedIn Learning at UChicago? LinkedIn Learning at UChicago is a free service for the entire UChicago community. LinkedIn Learning is a leading online learning company that helps anyone learn business, software, technology, and creative skills to achieve...

Combating Academic Dishonesty, Part 4: Library Services to Support Academic Honesty
This is a guest post by Rebecca Starkey and Greg Fleming. We invite you to review previous installments in our series: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 In this recent blog series, the importance of promoting academic honesty when planning your courses and assignments...
Global Accessibility Awareness Day Is Thursday, May 19
Thursday, May 19, is the 11th annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), focusing on digital equality for the one billion people in the world living with a disability. Creating an accessible digital environment supports the full participation of all members of...

Combating Academic Dishonesty, Part 3: Towards a Pedagogy of Academic Integrity
In this post, we continue our discussion of academic dishonesty in higher education and how it can best be prevented. Part 1 of this series looked at the evidence for dishonest behavior by students and explored some of the factors that can either promote or inhibit...

Combating Academic Dishonesty, Part 2: Small Steps to Discourage Academic Dishonesty
In this post, we continue our discussion of academic dishonesty in higher education and how it can best be prevented. Part 1 of this series looked at the evidence for dishonest behavior by students and explored some of the factors that can either promote or inhibit...

Social Annotation Beyond the Classroom: Use the Hypothes.is Chrome Plug-in for Research and Instruction
Hypothes.is Beyond the Classroom As a social annotation tool, Hypothes.is enables instructors and students alike to engage in collaborative reading and idea-generating activities across course content and openly accessible web-based materials. As a research tool and...

Combating Academic Dishonesty, Part 1 – Understanding the Problem
The Aims of This Series Academic dishonesty – a term that encompasses a wide range of behaviors, from unauthorized collaboration and falsifying bibliographies to cheating on exams and buying pre-written essays – is a serious problem for higher education. Left...

Promote Your Professional Growth with LinkedIn Learning
What Is LinkedIn Learning? LinkedIn Learning at UChicago is a free service for the entire UChicago community. LinkedIn Learning is a leading online learning company that helps anyone learn business, software, technology, and creative skills to achieve personal and...

Attend Axe-con 2022!
Axe-con, a virtual conference that focuses on digital accessibility, will be held March 15th to 17th, 2022. Developers, designers, business users, and accessibility professionals of all experience levels are welcome to attend this free conference. Come join Academic...

Collaborative Close Reading in Remote, Hybrid, and Face-to-Face Instruction: Part 3 (Graduate Training)
This is the third installment in a three-part series about social annotation. Part 1 explored social annotation in the context of teaching in the undergraduate Core: "Part 1 (Teaching in the Core)”; part 2 focused on a variety of language pedagogy contexts: “Part 2...