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T.H. Culhane, Ph.D, Director of the Climate Mitigation and Adaption Concentration at the Patel College of Global Sustainability at USF, Tampa shares how Perusall creates a lifelong learning community with students around the world.

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“But, Dr. Beck, I’m spending so much time on Perusall!” A Quick Analysis of Students’ Active Time

Have you been wondering if your students are spending too much time completing their assignments in Perusall? Written by Scott A. Beck, PhD, Georgia Southern University.

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Harnessing The Power Of Social Learning In Teaching Marketing

Originally published on 07/13/2023 by Dr. Tracy L. Tuten on Social Science Space. Dr. Tracy L. Tuten explores the power of social learning in teaching marketing, emphasizing the importance of collaboration, resource sharing, and the use of platforms like Perusall to foster a sense of community and enhance the educational experience, based on an online reading group of her book Principles of Marketing for a Digital Age.

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Students First: Pima Community College and the Case for Perusall

As the Academic Learning Technologies (ALT) team at Pima Community College, one of our main goals is to identify and implement technology tools that can increase community and student engagement within our online courses.

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Perusall: Transforming the Way Students Read for Class

Being an education professor means constant self-interrogation. If I’m supposed to be teaching teachers, I have to practice good teaching, right? But it’s also true that education professors, consumed by research or administration, can fall into the rut of teaching as we’ve always taught. While this might hurt students in any discipline, it seems particularly harmful to teaching pre-service teachers, who need to see pedagogical innovation in both theory and in practice.

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The Benefits of Using Perusall in a First-Year Seminar Course

Do you run a large department or another academic program? Are you looking to achieve greater consistency in the content taught across your course sections? What if you could do this while reinforcing student learning and retention of knowledge? Perusall can help with all these things… and more.

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Perusall: A Student's Perspective

Brittany Goranson, Florida International University, gives her insights on how Perusall has enhanced her learning as a student!

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Aisles Full of Annotations! Ginsberg’s Supermarket in Perusall

Original published by Marsha Bryant's blog. "If shopping with Ginsberg is like coloring outside the lines, annotating his poem with Perusall is like reading beside the lines. "

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Social Annotation and Community Building

A number of folks have written about the value of social annotation in the past year, so I do not want to rehash the many great arguments in favor of using platforms like Perusall . The benefits in terms of reading comprehension, close textual analysis, and critical thinking are pretty clear. What I do want to think about for a moment, however, are the more intangible benefits of such platforms when it comes to building community. Written by Nicolas Miller, Perusall Faculty Advisory Panel Member & Assistant Professor of English, Valdosta State University

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