Category: Center for Teaching and Learning
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CTL’s February lineup: Advancing teaching excellence
CTL and its partners are offering a robust slate of February faculty development events with topics ranging from Canvas to AI to strategies for fostering student engagement. We hope you will join us and add your voice to these conversations. Register now! Workshop: Crafting Clear AI Guidelines and Syllabus Statements That Work Learn practical ways…
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Developing students’ resiliency to navigate a complex world
By Lori McGraw, OSU College of Health I recently joined OSU’s 25 Year Club, though I have taught at this institution for 30 years, including my time as a graduate student instructor. I am a committed Beaver Believer. Despite my commitment to our university and students, I sometimes become disheartened. I have weathered multiple challenges…
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Winter warmers from the Center for Teaching and Learning
In the Center for Teaching and Learning, we hope the new year brings energy and inspiration to your teaching and research. We look forward to collaborative conversations and supporting your teaching excellence through these upcoming programs. Winter talks, panels and workshops Quality Teaching (QT) Talk: Intentional Course Design for More Effective (and Enjoyable) Teaching, Wednesday,…
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Faculty FAQs: AI in teaching and learning at OSU
In the three years since ChatGPT was introduced, information about generative AI in education has grown at a remarkable pace alongside the rapid adoption of GenAI tools. Navigating the world of generative AI in education can feel like wandering through a foggy forest without a clear trail to follow. This post serves as a field…
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AI & writing in your course: What do I do now?
By Liz Delf, CTL AI in Teaching and Learning Fellow A Quick Guide for Faculty Why we still want students to write Even in the age of AI, writing is a key mode of learning that supports inquiry, critical thinking, rhetorical awareness, cognitive sharpening, expertise building, and reflection. Four approaches to AI & writing Use…
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Alternative grading as a resilient teaching tool
By Emily Rabung, OSU College of Forestry Resilient Teaching Voices Series If resilience means sticking with it through a disruption and remaining generally well while doing so, we often think of the resilience our students and ourselves need to keep teaching and learning through a global pandemic or a personal emergency. However, in my experience,…
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Applying the self-determination theory to foster resilience
By Jess Coughlin, OSU-Cascades Resilient Teaching Voices Series I am confident that most of us working in higher education would agree that the past year has required a more purposeful effort to be resilient. We are constantly adapting during a disruptive time period in higher education. The original purpose of this blog post was meant…
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Resilience is more than a word
By Luhui Whitebear, OSU College of Liberal Arts Resilient Teaching Voices Series As an Indigenous woman, I have heard the word resilient used many times to describe our communities and nations. I am a descendant of my ancestors that survived genocide, the daughter of activists that fought for the rights we have, and a single…
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Join the Winter ’26 Inclusive Pedagogies Book Club
Invitation To the extent that we can root our teaching personas in more authentic-to-us ways of being, we can engage our students more meaningfully and more fully in the transformational learning we aspire to achieve. — Liz Norell, The Present Professor Join the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Difference, Power, and Oppression Program…
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Teaching on the edge
By Rachael Cate, OSU College of Engineering Resilient Teaching Voices Series Becoming more resilient as a teacher didn’t just sound appealing—it felt essential. I’m Type A, with two young children (ages 6 and 3), and I struggle to recognize when “good enough” is truly enough. The constant flood of information, tools, opinions, and choices leaves…