OSU Center for Teaching and Learning

Category: Center for Teaching and Learning

  • 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…

  • Intentional AI Spotlight: Jonathan Kalodimos on assessing learning when students can’t hide behind the text

    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 Jonathan Kalodimos, an associate professor of finance and Harley & Brigitte Smith Fellow. Jon’s background includes a tenure as a financial economist at the U.S.…

  • Last chance! Join the student engagement community of practice now

    The Center for Teaching and Learning invites teaching faculty to join the new community of practice on facilitating student success through engagement across modalities and class sizes. Individuals who teach large-enrollment courses or teach in multiple modalities are especially welcome. The community of practice will focus on small changes or minor adaptations that can be made in courses to…

  • Intentional AI Spotlight: Nate Kirk on cultivating productive failure in biology

    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 Nate Kirk, an associate professor (teaching) in the Department of Integrative Biology. Nate’s background as a molecular ecologist—studying the intricate symbiotic relationships between cnidarians…

  • Centering community in the classroom: Experiential approaches in ethnic studies

    By Jennifer A. Reimer Recio, OSU-Cascades What happens when students encounter course concepts through lived experience, dialogue, and shared space? This question guided my CTL mini-grant project, Embodied Perspectives: Integrating Scholar and Community Voices in Ethnic Studies. With support from the OSU Center for Teaching and Learning, I developed a speaker series across ES 201:…