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Tips and Trends: Perusing Perusall

Posted on July 3, 2026 by ACRL Instruction

By Josh P. Cohen and Matthew GoodInstructional Technologies CommitteePDF Version of Summer 2026 Tips and Trends Overview and Definition Perusall is a social annotation software platform, initially developed at Harvard University for their community. It became available to the general … Continue reading →

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Tips and Trends: Universal Design for Learning

Posted on April 15, 2026 by ACRL Instruction

By Abigail HigginsInstructional Technologies CommitteePDF Version of Spring 2026 Tips and Trends Overview and Definition Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is an approach to instructional design positing that learning experiences should be designed from the ground up to be accessible … Continue reading →

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Tips and Trends: AI Text Detectors

Posted on October 15, 2025 by ACRL Instruction

By Mary KamelaInstructional Technologies CommitteePDF Version of Fall 2025 Tips and Trends Overview and Definition  AI text detection tools are designed to identify writing that has been crafted using generative artificial intelligence (AI). Similar to plagiarism checkers like Turnitin.com, these … Continue reading →

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Tips and Trends: Microsoft Forms: Interactive Polling for Presentations and Instruction

Posted on March 24, 2025 by ACRL Instruction

By Elizabeth Sterner and Alissa DroogInstructional Technologies CommitteePDF version of Spring 2025 Tips and Trends Overview and Definition Microsoft Forms (MS Forms) is an interactive polling tool that can be used in face-to-face, synchronous, and asynchronous teaching. It joins the … Continue reading →

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Tips and Trends: Race on the Database: Using Claude AI to Gamify Library Instruction

Posted on January 15, 2025 by ACRL Instruction

By Toni Pilcher and Matt ArmstrongInstructional Technologies CommitteePDF version of Winter 2025 Tips and Trends Overview and Definition To gamify the database demonstration portion of our first-year writing library instruction, a pair of library instructors at Brigham Young University used … Continue reading →

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