• Eating your Peas, like Active Learning, not Preferred but Better for You.

    [This is the first in a series of Research Advancing Pedagogy (RAP) blogs, designed to share the latest pedagogical research from across the disciplines in a pragmatic format] “I wish he would just lecture instead of all this active learning stuff. I just want to sit back and take notes.” – Overheard walking behind two…


  • Crossing The Finish Line: Some Suggestions for Ending the Term

    Last days of class are perhaps just a short hop behind the first days in the big scheme of stressful days of teaching. This itself may come as a surprise. A last class needs close examination. Not enough educators pay enough attention to the last day. Many of us cannot wait to be done with…


  • Submit Hybrid Funding Proposals by Dec. 3

    The Center for Teaching and Learning has extended the due date for proposals for the Winter term Hybrid Faculty Learning Community until Tue., Dec., 3, to provide more time for proposal preparation. This program offers professional development funding to participants and supports redesign of Corvallis campus courses as hybrid courses that blend classroom meetings with…