Category: Center for Teaching and Learning
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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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Learning on location at an engaged learning research seminar
By Meg Mobley, OSU Dept. of Crop and Soil Science I have been reading about place-based approaches to teaching for a while and have dabbled with them while designing and teaching my general education natural science courses. I’m interested in the potential for these approaches to encourage students to build on their own prior knowledge…
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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…
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Authentic Classroom Dialogue: Preparing for Success
By Dennis Adams, OSU College of Business I often teach an Honors colloquium course on the role of commerce throughout history. Our in-class and online discussions cover some serious topics, such as slavery, colonialism, and the use of violence. At times I have struggled to get students to open up and share their thoughts. At…
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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!
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Boost SLE response rates to elevate student voices
The Spring 2025 Student Learning Experience (SLE) surveys remain open through Sunday, June 8. There is still time to take small actions that can raise the survey response rate to provide a more complete picture of student experiences in your courses. For example, you can let students know the importance of their feedback, and how…