Category: Center for Teaching and Learning
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WIC Workshop: How to design accessible and engaging course material.
The Writing Intensive Curriculum Program Workshop: “How to design accessible and engaging course material.” Sept 20 | 12 – 12:50 PM | Milam 215 (zoom available). In this workshop, Design faculty members Christine Gallagher, Deann Garcia, and Andrea Marks will teach easy-to-apply design principles. (You’ll also learn what not to do!) This will be an…
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Join a Fall ’21 Faculty Learning Community
The Fall ’21 Blended Faculty Learning Community, sponsored by CTL and Academic Technology, is gearing up to help you advance your teaching skills. This small, supportive cohort will focus on applying effective practices for skillful use of ed tech and for integrating synchronous and asynchronous learning activities. Participants will explore and develop solutions to self-identified…
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Looking to Fall 2021!! Onwards to Better
Dear OSU faculty and staff, We have missed you. With the arrival of the 2021 academic year a few weeks away, we are looking forward to seeing you our colleagues, and students, again. The excitement of starting is tempered somewhat by the uncertainty of the pandemic but OSU has safeguards in place, policy to guide…
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Career Champions Accepting Applications for New Cohort
By Brenna Gomez About the Author: Brenna Gomez, MFA, is the university innovation alliance fellow in the Office of Academic Affairs. She has 12 years of experience working with first-generation, low-income, students of color in the nonprofit sector, support services in secondary education, and classroom teaching at the college level. Brenna teaches composition, technical writing,…
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Increasing Resilience Through Modular Teaching
By Inara Scott, Assistant Dean for Teaching and Learning Excellence, College of Business Like many of us, at the beginning of the summer I was filled with optimism about the fall and the prospect of a post-COVID school term. Vaccination rates in Oregon were going up and masks were coming off. The challenge, it felt,…
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Teaching & Learning Town Hall Series
You are invited to attend a Town Hall Series on Teaching & Learning throughout September, presented by the Association for Undergraduate Education at Research Universities (UERU, formerly the Reinvention Collaborative) and partners at Colorado State University. The Town Hall Series will feature Michael Dennin, Dean of Undergraduate Education and Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning…
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Grading: Same as it Ever Was? There’s No Better Time than NOW, to Change
At the start of the pandemic, now over a year ago, it struck me that the words of the Talking Heads classic, Once in a Lifetime fit the situation well with a few tweaks (And you may find yourself, With online finals, With online meetings, And you may ask yourself, well, How did I get…
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Congratulations and Thank You!
The Center for Teaching and Learning congratulates Oregon State University’s record 7,391 graduates and expresses deep appreciation to our faculty who have skillfully taught, nurtured, guided and mentored their students through the unprecedented challenges of the past year. Looking ahead, see the newly updated Teaching Faculty website and the summer and early fall Faculty Training…
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Summer Professional Development Opportunity
The remote teaching and learning experience during the past year has stimulated innovative ideas about ways to improve on-campus teaching. The path forward for teaching and learning in higher ed will continue to be both exciting and challenging. You’re invited to join a faculty learning community this summer to explore these lessons learned and apply…