Author: Cub Kahn
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Interested in Designing a Hybrid Course?
Blended learning is a prominent feature of the teaching and learning landscape at Oregon State University. Since 2012 when OSU established the hybrid course schedule type, Corvallis campus hybrid courses have enrolled more than 42,000 students. The number of hybrid course sections has grown by more than 20% every year. The Center for Teaching and…
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CTL Reaches out to OSU Faculty in Eastern Oregon
The faculty of OSU’s Agriculture and Natural Resource Program at Eastern Oregon University participated in a CTL workshop on Blended, Flipped and Hybrid Course Design and Teaching. The Agriculture and Natural Resources Program is a long-standing cooperative relationship between EOU and OSU’s College of Agricultural Sciences to serve students, communities and industries of eastern Oregon…
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See You at the Faculty Success Symposium on Sep. 19 and 20
This popular annual event is a great opportunity for faculty, staff and graduate students to come together and learn about academic technology, services and tools to support teaching and learning, and upcoming faculty development programming. Presenters on Friday include CTL’s Brooke Howland, Funmi Amobi, Lexi Schlosser and Cub Kahn. Check out the full program. It’s free…
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Sign up for Guided Review of Your Blended, Flipped or Hybrid Course
This CTL workshop on Tuesday, July 9, offers a great opportunity for you to use new course review guidelines to take a close look at a blended, flipped or hybrid course you teach. You’ll be guided through a self-assessment of one of your courses to explore strengths of the course design and delivery and potential…
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Congratulations, OSU Graduates!
The Center for Teaching and Learning congratulates all Oregon State University graduates in the Class of ’19 and offers our best wishes for a wonderful future! And as another academic year draws to a close, we extend our deep appreciation to all OSU teaching faculty for everything you’ve done this year on behalf of your…
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Teaching Hybrid: What Works Well?
The Center for Teaching and Learning surveyed OSU Corvallis and Cascades campus faculty in Oct. 2016 to determine effective hybrid teaching practices from the perspective of instructors. Results: There was significant consensus among the 28 respondents from 7 OSU colleges. More than three-fourths of the instructors that used each of the following 11 practices rated…
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Return on Investment
What if a college instructor could appreciably increase the likelihood of the long-term well-being of a student by simply having a few conversations with the student? Great Jobs Great Lives, the recently released 2014 Gallup-Purdue Index National Report, links the quality of one’s college experience with subsequent well-being and with workplace engagement. This report is an eye…
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Get Funding to Design a Hybrid Course – Proposals Due June 12, 2014
Academic Affairs is offering compensation and course development support to OSU faculty during the Fall 2014 term for the redesign of established undergraduate classroom courses as hybrid courses. Priority will be given to Bacc Core courses. Tenured/tenure-track faculty and instructors with at least 2 years of teaching at OSU are eligible to participate. These funds…
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Universal Design for Teaching and Learning
“Universal design is the design of products and environments to be usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design” –Ron Mace, NCSU Center for Universal Design Though the term “universal design” has been used since the ‘70s, full application of the principles of universal design to…
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Student Tech
The Chronicle of Higher Education Almanac 2013 was published this week, complete with insights from the EDUCAUSE Center for Analysis and Research’s annual survey of college students and IT. This year’s survey collected data between February and April from 112,000 students at 251 institutions. Five interesting findings: What tech trends do you see in your…