Category: Announcements and Events

  • Announcing the 2025-26 CTL Mini-Grant recipients

    In Spring 2025, the Center for Teaching and Learning held an open call for teaching mini-grant proposals with up to $2,500 in funding for each proposed project. CTL’s Teaching Mini-Grants challenge instructors to think creatively about their teaching and make bold curricular choices that work towards every student graduating with meaningful learning experiences; these mini-grants…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Transforming teaching with AI: A fall faculty learning opportunity

    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…

  • Re-energize your teaching this fall: Call for participation

    In principle, resilient design is meant to be flexible, to anticipate disruptions, and to value social equity and community. —Andrea Kaston Tange, Resilient Design Are you seeking a supportive community of teaching faculty focused on resilience and improvement of teaching? Curious how to choose and use ed tech tools? Looking for an enjoyable way to…

  • Stepping up to new heights: Congratulations, Class of 2025!

    Thanks to the many OSU faculty and staff who support teaching excellence and foster engaged student learning, and congratulations to the the record 8,000-plus graduates in the Class of 2025—we wish you all the best in your future endeavors! Go Beavs!

  • Apply now for new Teaching Mini-Grants

    The Center for Teaching and Learning is excited to launch Teaching Mini-Grants for the 2025-2026 academic year. This is a great opportunity to think creatively about your teaching and make bold curricular choices. Why apply? CTL’s Teaching Mini-Grants encourage you to embrace teaching challenges. Whether you’re reworking a course, integrating new teaching technologies, or creating…

  • Exciting new fellowship opportunities for teaching faculty

    The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) invites applications for multiple faculty fellowships for the 2025–2026 academic year. These fellowships provide pathways for instructional faculty to increase their educational leadership skills, develop teaching resources, and design and deliver programs that drive teaching excellence across OSU. Up to five Teaching Excellence Fellowships, up to two AI…