Author: Cub Kahn
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Community at the heart of resiliency
By Kryn Freehling-Burton, OSU School of Language, Culture, and Society Reflecting on my own teaching and learning consistently leads me to community. Compassion, nourishment, learning, and creativity run through my own resiliency and the ways I see students respond in the classroom, particularly since the pandemic lockdown. All of these are sharpened in community. “When we decide to…
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Explore humanities teaching innovations: Beyond the classroom
Looking for new ideas for the humanities classroom? You’re not alone — traditional essay assignments have become fraught in the age of generative AI. Drop in for a lunchtime conversation on re-invigorating humanities teaching practices. The event will include three short presentations that focus on useful takeaways for faculty, followed by Q&A. Each presenter will…
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Resilient teaching in an Abnormal Psychology course
By Deborah Becht-Buss, OSU-Cascades Resilient teaching often means letting go of control—trusting students to find their own pathways to understanding. In my Abnormal Psychology course, this meant saying yes when a student asked, “Can I use Piglet to explain anxiety?” The result has transformed not only how my students learn, but how I teach. The…
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From gut feeling to data-driven: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
By Tasha Randall, OSU College of Health As teaching faculty, we are often interested in what might make our teaching more effective or improve the experiences of our students. To achieve these goals, we may focus on refining our course content, designing effective assignments, engaging our students, and assessing their learning. These are all valuable…
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Fall 2025 teaching support from the Center for Teaching and Learning
The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) is offering a variety of Fall 2025 programming to support your teaching excellence and effectiveness. Beyond the events listed below, CTL offers consultations, focus groups with your students, and tailored workshops for unit or college meetings. Email ctl@oregonstate.edu to make a request. Fall Workshops and Sparkshops: Register now Peers & Pedagogy: For graduate…
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Announcing CTL Faculty Fellows AY25-26
The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) is pleased to announce our set of faculty fellows for the 2025-2026 academic year. CTL held an open call for faculty fellowship applications in Spring 2025, and the following 10 faculty members were competitively selected for the CTL fellowship cohort. While each fellowship provides an opportunity to specialize and bring…
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Apply now for the Ecampus Research Fellows Program
If you are interested in conducting research about online teaching and learning, the Ecampus Research Unit will help you plan your proposal for the Ecampus Research Fellows Program. The Ecampus Research Unit annually funds faculty and/or department projects—$25,000 each—to support research in the areas of distance and online education, including hybrid delivery. Info sessions will be…
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OSU AI Book Club Call for Participation – Fall ’25
Invitation We see nothing less than a revolution. AI will change education even more fundamentally than the internet did. The magnitude of these changes calls for a broad, sweeping view of what will come next, and what changes as a result of AI’s presence and undeniability. —Yee, Uttich, Giltner, & Bojanowski, Coach for the Approach The…
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Using generative AI to support all learners
By Cub Kahn, OSU Center for Teaching and Learning and Ecampus The growing popularity of generative AI (GenAI) tools since ChatGPT’s 2022 release has simultaneously sparked enthusiasm and deep concern across higher education. This post provides a brief introduction to one aspect of GenAI’s potential by focusing on how AI tools may support inclusivity in…