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At a recent Dutton Community Day, the learning design team engaged in a "User Manual Scavenger Hunt" to strengthen connections. Each person created a personal "user manual" outlining their work preferences, and these were displayed around the room for a fun scavenger hunt, sparking conversation and laughter. This activity not only helped team members learn more about each other, but it also provided a great model for use in classrooms. By having students create personal user manuals, instructors can foster connections and enhance communication. Activities like the scavenger hunt—whether in-person or virtual—can build a sense of community, making students feel valued and supported, which can boost both their social and academic success.

Play, gamification, and feedback are the main topics for this edition of the Digest.

Students in Earth 103: Earth in the Future created collections of short essays for their capstone projects. Each essay describes how climate change is impacting a distinct community somewhere in the world. 1400 of these essays have been published in the e-Book Communities in Crisis: Student Voices on Climate Change.

This issue of the Dutton Digest focuses on student engagement and includes a reminder that the free Faculty Tech Academy course is available via the Learning Resource Network.

Research shows that active engagement helps students learn. Read on for ideas to encourage active learning in your classroom.

This digest introduces a tech tool called Yellowdig, provides a glimpse of Ed Tech trends for 2023, and shares information on a new standardized approach to microcredentialing.

Explore how to engage students with interactive videos and design effective quizzes, tests, and exams.

Topics of this month's digest include engaging learners for relevancy and retention, combatting learning loss, and rethinking student support.

Gather some guidance and frameworks to help plan and develop a blended or hybrid course, learn new ways to engage your students and enhance your teaching, explore replacing presentations with student-led lessons, and access presentations and discussions from the virtual workshop: Leadership in STEM Fields: Increasing Leadership from Historically Underrepresented Groups.

This month's digest explores how to make your teaching more engaging; provides teaching resources for extra credit, team assignments, and discussions; and examines strategies for inclusive teaching.