Category: Center for Teaching and Learning
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Requesting, Receiving & Responding to Student Feedback
Dr. Kiri L. Wagstaff is an Associate Research Professor at OSU in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a Principal Researcher in machine learning at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. What is the best way to solicit, analyze, and act on feedback from students about your course? Kenton Hokanson, a microbiology instructor, and…
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Teflon to Velcro: Making Content Stick
The Tuesday Teaching + Tech Talks session with Dr. Howes entitled From Teflon to Velcro: Making Content Stick centered around applying Chip and Dan Heath’s approach from their 2008 book Made to Stick, for creating lasting or “sticky” ideas to education. The Heaths outline 6 principles in their approach, represented in the acronym S.U.C.C.E.S.(s) standing…
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Transparency in Learning and Teaching: Begin with SMARTE and SMARTER Student Learning Objectives
In my work as an instructional consultant in CTL, I often discuss with faculty how to adjust the wording of course student learning objectives (SLOs) to exemplify measurable SLOs. This served as the initial impetus for creating an infographic to disseminate best practices for constructing student-centered and action-oriented SLOs. However, there is a lot more…
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Congratulations CTL – 15th Year Anniversary: A Reflection of OSU’s Center for Teaching & Learning
The Center for Teaching and Learning has been around for longer than you may guess. While you cannot stroll into our suite on the top floor of LiNC due to the pandemic, you can avail yourself of the many core offerings online (https://ctl.oregonstate.edu) and follow us on Twitter (@OSUteaching). Wondered how it all began? In…
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Join the Fall Conversation on Blended Learning!
Wondering how to engage students in blended courses, now or in the future? Academic Technology and CTL invite instructors and tenured/tenure-track faculty who teach Corvallis and Cascades campus courses to join a small, cross-disciplinary faculty cohort and explore blended learning and ed tech during Fall term. The group will have lively, interactive meetings twice a…
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New Guides to Blended and Remote Teaching
Just in time for a Fall term in which most Corvallis and Cascades courses will be offered in either remote or blended formats, two new Center for Teaching and Learning tutorials walk you through the design and teaching of courses in these challenging modalities. Successful Blended and Remote Course Design, Part One and Part Two,…
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Implementing and Assessing Collaborative Group Work
The term group work is most often associated with any form of learning activity where students work together. However, there are two approaches to group work. Cooperative learning is an instructional activity that involves students working together in ad hoc groups within a class period to achieve a learning goal (Major, 2015). Examples include the…
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CTL is excited to announce our fully remote New2OSU program!
New2OSU impacts student success by accelerating the effectiveness of those who are newer to teaching and/or OSU. Completion of the program may be used as evidence of professional development and teaching effectiveness. Participants are asked to commit to a three-term intensive program requiring (on average) 3 hours per week. New2OSU has recently been overhauled to…
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Extended Deadline: Apply by Sep. 15 for Blended Learning Community
Summer is slipping away, but there’s still time to apply for the Fall ’20 Blended Faculty Learning Community. You’re invited to join this faculty learning community to explore educational technology and blended learning. Academic Technology and CTL invite all instructors and tenured/tenure-track faculty who teach credit-based Corvallis and Cascades campus courses to apply. Instructors with…
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A Framework for Engaging Students in Synchronous Class Sessions: Interactive Lecture
A Framework for Engaging Students in Synchronous Class Sessions: Interactive Lecture There is a plethora of strategies and activities for engaging students in the remote learning modality (Amobi 2020, Chick, Friberg & Bessette 2020; Martin & Bollinger, 2018). In a national survey of faculty during the spring COVID-19 pivot, 63% of participants identified student engagement…