Category: Center for Teaching and Learning
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Fall ready, career ready
By Kara Clevinger, OSU Center for Teaching and Learning; Chris Gasser, Division of Academic Affairs; and Brenna Gomez, Career Development Center This year’s University Day keynote speaker was Dr. Mark Becker, President of the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities. In his September 17 lecture, Becker shared some startling statistics on public perceptions of…
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Empower your teaching: Fall ’24 professional development events
Teaching faculty, mark your calendars! Engage with colleagues in these events brought to you by the Center for Teaching and Learning and other OSU faculty support units. Check the CTL events calendar, Academic Technologies events calendar, and Ecampus Online Teaching Workshops and Events for the latest updates and details. Also see upcoming AI events and…
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Introducing Ashley Holmes, Associate Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning
Editor’s note: Ashley Holmes joined Oregon State University in July as the associate vice provost for teaching and learning in the Division of Academic Affairs. Ashley oversees the Center for Teaching and Learning, collaborates with units across campus, and works closely with units in Academic Affairs. Prior to coming to OSU, Ashley was the interim…
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The power of knowledge mapping
By Islam Hafez, OSU College of Forestry As technology continues to advance, students are now more susceptible to shorter attention spans and information overload. During an entire course, students are exposed to tons of new information. One key challenge with such a plethora of information is that students struggle to organize and connect the various…
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The role of gratitude in resilient teaching
By Ashley D’Antonio, OSU College of Forestry Resilience is one of the first concepts I learned as a recreation ecologist. In recreation ecology, “resilience” is the ability of part of an ecosystem (i.e., vegetation, wildlife) to recover from the disturbance caused by outdoor recreation. I think about resilient teaching similarly, as the ability of a…
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Resilient teaching and technology
By Will Later, OSU College of Liberal Arts Depending on how many years a person has been teaching, that person has seen many changes in technology in the classroom. From just chalkboards to having to make transparency copies for the overhead projector or making sure the projector is on, developing online modules in Blackboard or…
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Timely Teaching Tips: Weeks 9, 10 and Finals – Resources to support student well-being
By Emma Larkins, OSU Center for Teaching and Learning Supporting students down the home stretch The final weeks of the spring term bring special challenges for students simultaneously completing final assignments and assessments in multiple courses at the end of a long academic year. Fortunately, Oregon State University has plentiful resources and services tailored to…
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Elevate your teaching in a faculty learning community: Deadline extended to June 12
The growth of any craft depends on shared practice and honest dialogue among the people who do it. We grow by trial and error, to be sure—but our willingness to try, and fail, as individuals is severely limited when we are not supported by a community that encourages such risks. – Parker Palmer, The Courage to Teach The Center…
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Timely Teaching Tips: Weeks 7 and 8 – All about grading practices
By Emma Larkins, OSU Center for Teaching and Learning A feedback/assessment tool and alternative grading frameworks It is potentially beneficial to reflect on the relationship between learning and learning assessment, to explore improvement of grading practices and feedback, and to consider how tools can make grading both more efficient and more consistent. Suggested resources: About…
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CUREs to increase student resilience
By Nate Kirk, OSU College of Science The fear of failure can be demotivating and counterproductive to taking the first couple steps forward. There is a large volume of literature describing this fear to emotional states (e.g. nervousness and anxiety), personality (e.g. having a fixed mindset that one is not capable of achieving the goal)…