Category: Center for Teaching and Learning
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Start the New Term Strong: Tips from Fall and Psychological Science.
[This blog post is based on a piece published in The Teaching Professor by Regan A. R. Gurung. You are free to modify it to share with your students. The original post can be found here: https://www.teachingprofessor.com/covid-19/adapting-for-2021-a-students-guide/ ] Most New Year’s resolutions revolve around getting more active, improving what you eat, or perhaps even cutting…
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Still Time to Apply! Join a Blended Faculty Learning Community
Join a supportive cohort of faculty in January to boost your teaching skills! The Winter ’21 Blended Faculty Learning Community, sponsored by CTL and Academic Technology, will help OSU faculty advance their teaching. The group will focus on applying effective practices for blended learning–in remote, blended, hybrid or flipped courses–and the skillful use of educational…
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Read-Reflect-Reform: Are You (IN)clusive
Why did I choose to read Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? I feel the answer lies in my background as a white male who grew up in the 1960’s and 70’s, and I’d like to share how I think the book can impact people of my generation. The period…
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Sign up for OSU Teaching Workshops
OSU’s Keep Teaching team, the Center for Teaching and Learning, and Academic Technology are collaborating to offer workshops and webinars to help you prepare your Winter 2021 courses. Sign up today! Using Canvas to Give Better Feedback to Students - Wondering how you can give your students more efficient and effective feedback through Canvas? Are you…
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Join the Winter ’21 Blended Faculty Learning Community
The Winter ’21 Blended Faculty Learning Community, sponsored by CTL and Academic Technology, will help OSU faculty enhance their teaching, with a focus on applying effective practices for blended learning–in remote, blended, hybrid or flipped courses–and the use of educational technology. Participants will explore and develop solutions for significant pedagogical challenges, and will share their…
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Supporting Students’ Finals Prep
By Marjorie Coffey, Asst. Director, Academic Success Center & Writing Center (ASC &WC) Last spring, I shared ways instructors could encourage and support students as they finished up their first term of remote learning. The most recent OSU Remote Learning Experience Student Survey tells us that remote learning still presents significant challenges for students, even…
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Reimagining Assessment in the Pandemic Era: Comprehensive Assessment of Student Learning
The Latin root word for the term assessment is assidere which means to sit down beside (Stefanakis, 2002; Swaffield, 2010). The picture of an expert sitting down beside a novice exemplifies the act of providing needed structure to facilitate learning success. In the past decades, this learning-centric focus of the meaning of assessment seemed to…
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Leveraging Zoom Tools to Engage Students
Student engagement is indispensable in the current remote and blended teaching and learning environment. James Lang, author of the well-known Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning, speaks to this challenge in the newly published Distracted: Why Students Can’t Focus and What You Can Do About It. “We will not succeed in teaching…
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Register Now: Blending Your Teaching with Instructional Media Workshop
Wondering how to make your remote or blended classes more engaging? Always wanted to create more media to enliven your classes? Join the Center for Teaching and Learning and Academic Technology for an intensive hour-long session that will empower you to develop media that supports your teaching and to blend your synchronous sessions and asynchronous…
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Are You IN(clusive)? POC Student Perspectives on Race & Racism
Dharma Mirza (She/Her/Hers) is a Student Office Worker at the OSU Center for Teaching & Learning. Dharma is a senior studying Public Health, Queer Studies, and Medical Humanities, and hopes to pursue an MAIS and MPH at OSU when she graduates. Dharma also works doing community outreach and education on topics such as anti-racist organizing/education,…