Author: Cub Kahn
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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…
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Practical Solutions for Remote Learning Issues
Two months into higher education’s sudden transition to remote teaching, the challenges of this modality are evident to students and faculty alike. Even as we encourage and support students to successful completion of Spring term, we look ahead to Summer Session and Fall term teaching contingencies. To assist faculty as we move forward, the Center…
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Remote Teaching = Blended Learning: Part 2
At the outset of Oregon State’s Spring term in late March, the first post in this series suggested considering this sudden shift to remote teaching as an extension of the widely used, evidence-based blended learning modality. Now that we’ve passed the halfway point of the term and faculty are thinking ahead to Summer Session remote…
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Be Seen. Be Heard. Teach Effectively.
An essential life skill in the month-old era of Remote Teaching (Zoomocene Epoch) is to effectively deliver information via Zoom. The quality and quantity of education in colleges and universities today is deeply dependent of the efficacy of instructors communicating through Zoom and similar video conferencing platforms. This is true whether the student is viewing…
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Remote Teaching = A New Kind of Blended Learning
Blended learning, in which classroom learning activity is integrated with online learning activity, has been on the rise over the past two decades. Nationally, a large portion of faculty and students express a preference toward blended approaches and substantial research supports the efficacy of this approach. Now with the abrupt transition to remote teaching in…
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Jump-Start Your Remote Teaching with a Canvas Template
To help you rapidly prepare for Spring term remote teaching, you have access to a Canvas course template that can be imported into your empty Canvas course sites. The template itself gives simple directions to import it into your course sites. You can do this in 2 minutes! The template embodies evidence-based best practices for…
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In Tribute to Kay Sagmiller
Kay Sagmiller, Ph.D., director of the OSU Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) from 2012 to 2018, passed away on Feb. 27. Originally from Montana, Kay was a career educator who placed great emphasis on advancing teaching excellence for the benefit of all learners. As a first-generation college student herself, she deeply believed in the…
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Join the Applying Learning Technology Community
Good news! The deadline has been extended to March 15 to apply for this Spring’s pilot of the Applying Learning Technology Community. All faculty teaching on-campus courses are encouraged to submit proposals. The @ALT Community will provide participants with opportunities to explore learning technology with support from the Center for Teaching and Learning and Academic…
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Apply Now for Your Spot in the Spring Hybrid Learning Community
Each term Oregon State University offers well over 100 hybrid courses that blend classroom and online learning. All Corvallis teaching faculty are invited to apply to participate in the Center for Teaching and Learning’s Spring 2020 Hybrid Faculty Learning Community and redesign Corvallis on-campus courses as hybrid courses. Professional development funding provided. Proposals are due…
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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…