Category: Center for Teaching and Learning
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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…
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Center for Teaching and Learning Winter Programming
Winter 2022 Programming Highlights Greetings OSU faculty and staff!! All of us at the Center for Teaching and Learning welcome you to Winter term 2022!!! The pandemic rages on but after a strong Fall term and successful return to in person classes, there is a lot to look forward to this year. We continue to…
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Register Now for a Teaching with Media Workshop
The Center for Teaching and Learning and the UIT-Academic Technologies Faculty Media Center (FMC) are teaming up to deliver workshops later this month about creating and using instructional media. Topics include the exciting new FMC Lightboard, instructional media types and workflow for content creation, and how to blend synchronous and asynchronous learning in Corvallis and…
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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…