• Elevating Student Engagement in Breakout Rooms

    Students want to interact with each other. In fact, they learn better when they do. In a national survey of undergraduate students during the COVID-19 pandemic, 65% of participants identified the opportunity to collaborate with other students as one of the aspects of their learning that suffered from the shift to remote instruction. How can…


  • Sign up for Course Design and Teaching Workshops!

    These workshops are a great way to prepare for the challenges of teaching in Fall ‘20. The workshops will include both asynchronous activities and a 90-minute synchronous Zoom session. Workshops are open to all OSU faculty and GTAs.   Register now! Workshop details, including Zoom login information, will be emailed to you.  Additionally, most colleges…


  • Four Strategies for Facilitating Group Activities in Remote and Hybrid/Blended Classes

    One of the biggest pedagogical shifts in moving in-person classes to remote learning involves modifying active learning activities. Online courses which are designed from the ground up without face-to-face meetings have many ways to engage students (Forbes, 2020). The challenge is to make our remote teaching also be more active. Facilitating active learning assumes greater…