Tag: equity
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Evidence-based teaching strategies increase student engagement
By Jonathan Andicoechea, OSU College of Science Despite continuous research attempting to drive a stake through its heart, the exclusive use of the lecture format continues to haunt the college classroom. Like a ghoul slinking around under the cover of darkness, it feasts on students’ academic potential, resulting in depressed learning gains and an enervated…
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Inclusive Teaching: Structure and Mindset
By Sarah Pearce, doctoral student, College of Health Editor’s note: This post is based on an Ecampus GRAD 516 Graduate Teaching Seminar assignment in which CTL’s Dr. Funmi Amobi asked students to address principles from Inclusive Teaching: Strategies for Promoting Equity in the College Classroom (2022) by Kelly Hogan and Viji Sathy. Students were tasked…
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Resilience as Resistance: Defending Higher Education by Finding Ways to Remain
By Kristen D. Herring, Ph.D., School of Communication As early career faculty, many academics build armor. We shield ourselves from attacks on our authority with memorized citations, ambitious research agendas, and cleverly thrifted blazers. The word resilience takes on an unnerving connotation among millennial audiences. We are a generation whose entire adult lives have been…
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Academic Integrity and Equity: It’s in the Pedagogy
By Dr. Jacqueline Goldman, OSU School of Psychological Science Editor’s note: Dr. Goldman presented on this topic in a Center for Teaching and Learning Quality Teaching (QT) talk on October 17, 2023. If you do a quick Google search of the terms “students cheating” you’ll see a plethora of articles, both op-ed and peer reviewed,…
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Tuesdays Are for Teaching!
By Emma Larkins, Center for Teaching and Learning Each term, the Center for Teaching and Learning invites speakers to share pedagogical practices and strategies that can help bring the Quality Teaching (QT) framework to life for learning communities at OSU. Each QT Talk homes in on a principle from the framework with a focus on…
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JOIN CTL’s “Read, Reflect, Reform” Spring Book Club
Join the Center for Teaching and Learning’s “Are You IN(clusive)? READ, REFLECT, REFORM” Spring Book Club. The Read, Reflect, Reform book clubs use a blended format with 2 synchronous meetings (times set by the group, in person or remote) and asynchronous activities. Activities commence Spring Term 2023. You will receive free – Inclusive Teaching: Strategies for Promoting Equity in the College Classroom…
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Call for Applications – Inclusive Excellence@OSU 2021 Cohort
Each year IE@OSU welcomes STEM faculty from OSU, Linn-Benton, and Lane Community Colleges to participate in a year-long fellowship. Inclusive Excellence@OSU seeks to transform STEM education by creating a thriving community of peers who are invested in inclusive excellence in STEM, challenging fellows to develop equity and justice-oriented mindsets, and exploring pedagogical practices that fellows can implement…
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RAP ON: Not all Retrieval Practice is Created Equal
About the Author: Emily Burgess is a graduate student in the School of Psychological Science at Oregon State University. Studying in the Engineering Psychology area, her research focuses on working memory and memory for emotional faces. This post is part of our series of Research Advancing Pedagogy (RAP) blogs, designed to share pedagogical research from across the disciplines…
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Creating Equitable & Culturally Inclusive Environments
by: Lauren Alva, Instructor (ESL) Tuesday Teaching + Tech Talks: Week 2 – Creating Equitable & Culturally Inclusive Environments by Jane Waite – Creating Space for Everyone: Equitable Teaching and Learning Environments. Imagine a group of students standing at the top of a sand dune. They’re lined up side by side, some with their arms…