Category: Center for Teaching and Learning
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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…
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RAP ON: A Crisis Preparedness Kit for Educators
About the author: Sydney Tran is a Health Psychology PhD student studying the effects of objectification on women’s well-being. She is passionate about equity, diversity, and inclusivity in improving mental health and well-being. This is part of our series of Research Advancing Pedagogy (RAP) blogs, designed to share the latest pedagogical research from across the disciplines in a pragmatic…
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Engaging Undergraduate Students with Research
Each year, many new and returning OSU undergraduates look forward to engaging in forms of experiential learning beyond the classroom. Engaging undergraduates in research, for example, is central to OSU’s Strategic Plan 4.0, and has been shown to lead to a wide range of personal and professional gains for those who participate (Kuh, 2008; National…
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Getting Ready for FALL 2020
With August waning, Fall classes loom on the horizon. While many teaching faculty and students bemoan the absence of face to face learning opportunities this Fall, it is reassuring to know for sure what modality classes will be conducted in. It is a lot easier to plan an entire term when you do not have…
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Supporting Your Fall Term Students
Times of transition and change can be overwhelming. We know the entire OSU community is experiencing some form of change right now, and that students in particular may be feeling overwhelmed as they anticipate fall term. We also know that students trust the advice and resources they hear about from you. This puts you in a unique position to support students throughout the term. As you prepare for fall, I’d like to highlight one way you…
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Apply Now for the Fall 2020 Blended Faculty Learning Community
The Fall 2020 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 and the use of educational technology. Participants will explore and develop solutions for significant pedagogical challenges, and will share their solutions with the OSU community.…
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Elevating Student Engagement in Breakout Rooms
Students want to interact with each other. In fact, they learn better when they do. In a national survey of undergraduate students during the COVID-19 pandemic, 65% of participants identified the opportunity to collaborate with other students as one of the aspects of their learning that suffered from the shift to remote instruction. How can…
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Four Strategies for Facilitating Group Activities in Remote and Hybrid/Blended Classes
One of the biggest pedagogical shifts in moving in-person classes to remote learning involves modifying active learning activities. Online courses which are designed from the ground up without face-to-face meetings have many ways to engage students (Forbes, 2020). The challenge is to make our remote teaching also be more active. Facilitating active learning assumes greater…