Tag: teaching

  • Timely Teaching Tips: Weeks 5 and 6 – Communication Strategies to Support Students

    By Emma Larkins, Center for Teaching and Learning Believe it or not, we are approaching the midpoint of winter term. Many students are preparing for midterms, building presentations, and working through project plans. Academic pressures in addition to the winter conditions can challenge student wellbeing. This is a great time to check in with your…

  • AI on Campus: Upcoming CTL Podcast Explores Artificial Intelligence and Education

    By Raven Chakerian, Blended Learning Faculty Fellow, Center for Teaching and Learning Part of the intrigue of a podcast is its storytelling nature, and the origin story of an upcoming Center for Teaching and Learning podcast on teaching and Artificial Intelligence (AI) marks no exception. In graduate school, I looked forward to the articles focusing…

  • RAP ON: Helping Students Study

    By Regan A.R. Gurung, Associate Vice Provost and Executive Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning and Professor of Psychological Science, Oregon State University Editor’s Note: This is part of our series of Research Advancing Pedagogy (RAP) blogs, designed to share the latest pedagogical research from across the disciplines in a pragmatic format. Teachers hope that…

  • Timely Teaching Tips: Course Prep + Weeks 1 and 2

    By Emma Larkins, Center for Teaching and Learning Get winter term off to a successful start! Preparing for the term and setting the tone in the first few weeks of the course are important to both the instructor and students. Here are tips and strategies from considering a welcoming syllabus, to setting up your Canvas…

  • Resilient Teaching in Spite of Technology Changes

    By Peder Nelson, Senior Instructor, CEOAS Digital technology has held much promise for discovery, research, and long-term impacts for teaching and learning about nearly any subject. For me, as an instructor of computer-based coursework that attempts to build foundational technology skills along with particular domain expertise that takes us into fundamental concepts about how to…

  • Embracing Resilience as a Process

    By Jenny Jackson, Clinical Associate Professor, College of Health Resilience. It’s achieved buzzword status in recent years, something we are encouraged to possess (resilience) or strive to be (resilient). According to the American Psychological Association, resilience is “the process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences, especially through mental, emotional, and…

  • 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…

  • My Increasing Fascination and Use of Generative AI

    By Laura Rees, Associate Professor, College of Business Editor’s Note: This faculty guest post marks the first anniversary of the public release of ChatGPT. The Center for Teaching and Learning invites first-person posts from OSU faculty about applications of generative AI to teaching and learning. What do providing source code for how to show videos…

  • Build Resilience! Join a Resilient Teaching Cohort This Winter

    Want to be part of a supportive community of faculty focused on resilience and improvement of teaching? Looking for an enjoyable way to energize your Corvallis or Cascades campus teaching? Join the Winter ’24 Resilient Teaching Faculty Learning Community sponsored by the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL). A small cohort of faculty from across…

  • Can AI Tools Reshape the Way We Educate?

    By Dr. Shrikant Londhe, Dept. of Chemistry History has shown that when new technologies emerge, there is often resistance and skepticism regarding their adoption. The introduction of tractors and other mechanized equipment received apprehension from farmers in India, who were concerned about their jobs being taken away by machines. However, those who embraced the technology…