OSU Center for Teaching and Learning

Category: Center for Teaching and Learning

  • Learning to see in Oregon: Mobile photography, farms, and what happens in between

    By Whitney Stone, OSU College of Agricultural Sciences We use our cameras every day to call, text, and scroll on social media. But have you used your camera to document how we grow our food? During Zero Week (June 15-18), students in our AGCM 200 Mobile and Drone Photography for Visual Storytelling in Agriculture and…

  • The Student View: Centering students with visible and invisible disabilities

    By Ashley Peterson, OSU Academic Technologies – Media Services Student panel shares insights on accessibility and learning Thank you all so much for your bravery, honesty, and willingness to be constructive. — Audience member At Oregon State University’s Quality Teaching Symposium on April 28, the Student View panel brought together OSU students from multiple disciplines…

  • Congratulations, Class of 2026!

    Congratulations to the record 8,785 students graduating in the Oregon State University Class of 2026. We wish you all the best in your future endeavors! The Center for Teaching and Learning is grateful to OSU faculty and staff who consistently inspire engaged student learning and advance teaching excellence. Go Beavs!

  • The challenges and rewards of a decade-long collaborative student project

    By Hailey Ferris, Rebecca Olson, and Mckenna Sonday, OSU College of Liberal Arts Introduction (Rebecca) In 2016, I initiated what would become a long-term teaching and public humanities project, a student-edited open textbook Romeo and Juliet, published with OSU’s Open Educational Resources. An innovative edition of a Shakespeare play insofar as it was designed by…

  • Dialogue facilitation in the DPO classroom

    Join staff from the OSU Difference, Power, and Oppression (DPO) Program and the Office of Institutional Diversity for a workshop on using dialogue facilitation skills to manage difficult conversations in the DPO classroom. Participants will learn about dialogue facilitation skills and have the opportunity to put them into practice using DPO teaching scenarios, focusing on…

  • Intentional AI Spotlight: Doug Reese on acoustic ecology and the AI expert-in-the-loop

    By Demian Hommel, CTL AI in Teaching and Learning Fellow in partnership with the AI Literacy Center As part of the Intentional AI at OSU series, I sat down with Doug Reese, a senior instructor II in ecology. Doug’s work focuses on the distribution, structure, and function of ecological communities: specifically, how they respond to…

  • Intentional AI Spotlight: Jonathan Leong on finance at the speed of feedback

    By Demian Hommel, CTL AI in Teaching and Learning Fellow in partnership with the AI Literacy Center As part of the Intentional AI @ OSU series, I sat down with Jonathan Leong, an instructor in finance at the Oregon State University College of Business. In the high-stakes world of finance, Jonathan has found that generative…

  • Intentional AI Spotlight: Rachael Cate on grounding the technical with the human-centered

    By Demian Hommel, CTL AI in Teaching and Learning Fellow in partnership with the AI Literacy Center As part of the ongoing Intentional AI at OSU series, I sat down with Rachael Cate, a senior instructor II in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at Oregon State University. With a Ph.D. in…

  • Celebrate teaching excellence at the Quality Teaching Symposium

    Register now for OSU’s 2026 Quality Teaching (QT) Symposium! Join CTL for sessions that center evidence-based teaching practices in support of inclusive learning, teaching as a discipline, and mentorship of learners. This daylong event will lead off the university’s Teaching Excellence Week on Tuesday, April 28, with on-campus sessions in Corvallis from 8 a.m. to…

  • Spring 2026 teaching support from the Center for Teaching and Learning

    This spring term the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) is offering a robust slate of programming in support of student success and inclusive excellence. We invite faculty and graduate students to register for communities of practice, workshops, Core Education pedagogical support, and the inaugural Quality Teaching Symposium on April 28th. On behalf of the…