Category: Center for Teaching and Learning
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Supporting student wellbeing in the classroom: Call for participation
the best practices for reducing unnecessary stress and discouragement are usually the best practices for increasing learning. ~ Robert Eaton, Steven V. Hunsaker, and Bonnie Moon, Improving Learning and Mental Health in the College Classroom The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) along with Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS), as part of Health Promoting University…
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Come join the 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…
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Re-energize your teaching this fall: Call for participation
The growth of any craft depends on shared practice and honest dialogue among the people who do it. We grow by trial and error, to be sure—but our willingness to try, and fail, as individuals is severely limited when we are not supported by a community that encourages such risks. – Parker Palmer, The Courage to Teach Are you…
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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 Oregon State University faculty and/or department projects — $25,000 each — to support research in the areas of distance and online education,…
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New team members expand support at CTL
The Oregon State University Center for Teaching and Learning is excited to welcome three new staff members in time to significantly expand teaching support and faculty development efforts for the 2026-27 academic year! Anish Bhatia serves as the Accessible Pedagogy Coordinator at CTL. In this role, he provides training and support to help faculty combine…
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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…
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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…
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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!
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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…
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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…