Category: Center for Teaching and Learning
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You’re Invited to the April 26th Resilient Teaching Symposium
The vast shifts in teaching modalities during the two years since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic have been a contributing factor to prolonged stress and fatigue for many faculty. As they navigate the roller coaster of their professional and personal lives, teaching faculty are confronting the question of how best to adapt their course…
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Teaching with Media: Liven up Your Lecture Videos
Creating and using instructional media well can be a major asset in your teaching. Discover new ways to create more interactive and engaging lecture videos as you blend classroom and Canvas learning activities in your Corvallis and Cascades campus courses. The Faculty Media Center and the Center for Teaching and Learning invite all OSU faculty…
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Student Reflections Inform Teaching
This week I have learned a few things: 1. I now completely understand why so many people drop out of college.2. Insulin is as cheap as water. (I’m being sarcastic.)3. My boyfriend gives the best hugs.4. I can’t wait to become a teacher and help mold little brains.5. Weighted blankets and lots of ice cream…
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Requests for Extensions Getting You Down? Some Solutions.
It is near the end of Week Seven here at Oregon State University. It is about the time faculty will be getting a lot of requests from students. Requests for more time for a paper, for a quiz, or for an exam. Requests for recording lectures, copies of notes, or zoom links. Most faculty want…
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CTL Lumen Learning GRANT Opportunity
JOIN US FOR AN OPPORTUNITY TO IMPROVE THE SUCCESS OF FACULTY! We are excited to announce a grant funded professional development opportunity with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Lumen Learning. In collaboration with the Center for Teaching and Learning, Lumen hopes to engage faculty (tenure track and fixed term) and graduate students with…
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CTL Mutual Mentors
About the Author: Dr. Brooke Howland provides curriculum design and pedagogical support for OSU teachers. Prior to working at OSU, Dr. Howland taught in the School of Education for University of Southern California, University of California, Irvine, and University of California, Los Angeles. Wanting professional renewal that impacts your teaching and improves your students’ learning?…
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Towards Transformative Teaching
About the Author: Jacqueline Goldman earned a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Oklahoma in 2018, with an emphasis on the cognitive and motivational aspects of learning. Her current research focuses on increasing first-generation college student retention in higher education through task value and engagement interventions. Dr. Goldman taught as an Assistant Professor…
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Apply Now for the 2022 CTL Blended Course Redesign Program
The Blended Learning Innovation in Pedagogy (BLIP) initiative, a partnership between the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), Academic Technologies, Ecampus, and the Office of Academic Affairs, is currently recruiting lead instructors interested in redesigning large enrollment courses on campus. Lead instructors will work alongside the BLIP Faculty Fellow, Dr. Raechel Soicher, in exploring and…
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Call for Applications – CAAI Faculty Learning Community – Spring ‘22
Community for the Advancement of Antiracist Instruction (CAAI): A learning community led by and for instructors and TAs The Community for the Advancement of Antiracist Instruction (CAAI) is a learning community in which instructors and TAs engage in antiracist work related to their teaching. This grassroot project was designed and will be facilitated by a…
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Building a robust framework for supporting QTI+ students at OSU
About the author. Jessica Lodwick is an instructor of Botany and Plant Pathology and Integrative Biology at Oregon State University. Her teaching interests are grounded in the ecology and the evolutionary basis of life on earth. Jessica has previously taught courses on animal behavior and scientific writing, with a focus on fundamental ecological principles and…