Category: Announcements and Events
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Sign up TODAY for the OSU Academic Integrity Retreat
You are invited to the 2025 Academic Integrity Retreat: Fostering a Culture of Academic Integrity. We hope you will join us for this half-day gathering aimed at strengthening our understanding of academic integrity, its impact on student success, and developing strategies to enhance a culture of integrity within your college. Snacks and beverages will be provided. The…
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Explore spring teaching and learning events
The Center for Teaching and Learning is pleased to share our spring programming to support excellence and innovation in teaching. We look forward to supporting you through the talks, workshops, and faculty development offerings. Find out more and register for CTL Sparkshops and Quality Teaching Talks. CTL Spring Sparkshop Series: Championing a Culture of Inclusive Learning…
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Enhancing class engagement with OSU’s new student response system
Starting summer 2025, Poll Everywhere will replace Top Hat to become Oregon State University’s centrally supported Student Response System (SRS). OSU employees with valid ONID accounts will be able to register as presenters, and students will be able to register as participants using ONID. There is no cost to OSU individuals who use Poll Everywhere.…
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Join CTL’s Spring ’25 Global Learning Book Club
Are you curious to explore how to promote and support Oregon State University’s internationalization goals outlined in the Prosperity Widely Shared strategic plan? We are excited to invite you to participate in CTL’s Spring ’25 Global Learning Book Club. We will discuss engaging topics in the Mind the Gap: Global Learning at Home and Abroad edited volume,…
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Meet the 2024-25 Center for Teaching and Learning College Fellows
The OSU Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) Fellows Program plays a pivotal role in fostering innovative teaching practices, supporting faculty development, and enhancing student success. In Fall 2024, five CTL Fellows were selected, representing the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences; the College of Engineering; the College of Health; and OSU-Cascades. Below, get…
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Empower your teaching: Winter ’25 professional development events
Teaching faculty, mark your calendars! Engage with colleagues in these events brought to you by the Center for Teaching and Learning. Check CTL Workshops & Events, Academic Technology Events, and Ecampus Online Teaching Workshops and Events for the latest updates and details about teaching-related professional development opportunities. Also see upcoming AI events and past recordings.…
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Last chance to join the Winter ’25 AI book club
Update Dec. 27, 2024: Registration for the Winter ’25 AI book club is now closed. The integration of AI in education is not a future possibility—it’s our present reality. This shift demands more than passive acceptance or futile resistance. It requires a fundamental reimagining of how we teach, learn, and assess knowledge. As AI becomes…
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Using a fishbowl to teach
By Brooke O’Brien, Center for Teaching and Learning What is the Fishbowl Teaching Strategy? In its simplest form, as described in the Center for Teaching and Learning’s Instructional Strategy Cards, the fishbowl teaching strategy gets its name from the way it organizes students. A “closed conversation” includes a smaller “inner circle” made up of “conversationalists,”…
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Call for participation: Winter ’25 Teaching and AI Faculty Learning Community
Invitation The goal isn’t to outsmart AI or to pretend it doesn’t exist, but to harness its potential to enhance education while mitigating the downside. The question now is not whether AI will change education, but how we will shape that change to create a more effective, equitable, and engaging learning environment for all.” ––Ethan Mollick,…
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Autumn leaves and learning: Upcoming events
We hope to see you in the coming weeks at these professional development opportunities for Oregon State University faculty and GTAs: CTL Quality Teaching (QT) Talk: The Courage to Teach Tuesday, Oct. 29, 3:30 to 4:20 p.m. in LINC 350 and via Zoom – Parker J. Palmer’s classic book emphasizes the deep interconnections between student,…