Category: Center for Teaching and Learning
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Embracing an Asset-based Model of Neurodiversity: Challenges and Academic Supports
Neurodiversity is a concept or movement that emphasizes that neurological differences should be recognized and respected as a variation of human wiring rather than a disease (Armstrong, 2011; Clouder et al., 2020). While autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is often identified as its primary focus, neurodiversity is an umbrella term that includes other neurological conditions such…
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Reading and Low-Stakes Writing Across the Curriculum
About the author: Ashley Vaughn (she/her) is an Instructor in the College of Public Health and Human Sciences, teaching courses in the Health Promotion and Health Behavior Department. After graduating from the University of Idaho in 2013, Ashley taught high school science in Philadelphia, PA, Passaic, NJ, and Detroit, MI. In 2019, Ashley decided to…
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Trauma-Informed College Teaching
About the author: Jocelyn Kerr (she/they) provides advocacy support for OSU Ecampus students as the Ecampus SARC Advocate and Outreach Coordinator. After receiving a BA in Theatre Arts from the University of Oregon, Jocelyn worked in the wellness industry as a massage therapist, yoga and meditation teacher, and managed studios in New York City and…
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Congratulations to the 2021 OSU Teaching Award Recipients
Every year over 1,700 OSU teaching faculty work hard to provide our students with an exceptional college experience. Being an effective educator takes work. Course design, assessment, and course delivery all involve energy. Over the last years, our teaching faculty kept teaching even through a pandemic. We, the staff of the Center for Teaching and…
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CTL Blended Learning Research Published
Do you integrate classroom teaching and online learning activities in your classes? Do you use a flipped approach or teach reduced-seat-time hybrid courses? Or are you considering such approaches for the first time? If so, you’ll be interested in Blended Learning Research Perspectives, Volume 3, published in September by Routledge. Better yet, this new collection…
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SPARKSHOPS
Sparkshops – Learn, Reflect, Renew, Refocus Join us for the Center for Teaching and Learning’s Sparkshop: Engaging students through effective questioning: Strategies and tips on October 15, 12-12:45 PM. Login information: Register for Zoom Sparkshops focus on evidence-informed teaching practices that faculty can easily implement to support student engagement and learning success. They are meant to…
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Sign up for an Intro to Media for Teaching Workshop
Did you know that OSU has an audio/video production facility to support teaching on campus? It’s called the Faculty Media Center, located in Kidder 100. In this workshop, you’ll learn all about the FMC studios and how to create engaging and immersive media using OSU-supported software. The Center for Teaching and Learning and FMC invite…
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A Reflection on CTL’s Supporting 2SLGBTQI+ Students In and Outside the College Classroom
About the author: After 17 years away, Teresa recently returned to OSU as an instructor in the HDFS department. Previously, Teresa taught for five years in the OSU laboratory preschool – Child Development Center/Head Start program – and has more than 20 cumulative years of university-level teaching experience at multiple institutions, including OSU-Cascades, Washington State University Vancouver, WSU Global Campus, and Central…
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CTL Announces Call for Blended Learning Faculty Fellow
High quality blended learning, which combines the strengths of on-campus and online teaching, continues to grow in popularity as higher education moves back to campus after the recent period of remote teaching. CTL, Academic Technologies, Ecampus, and the Office of Undergraduate Education are partnering to launch a 2022 Blended Learning Innovations in Pedagogy (BLIP) initiative.…