Category: Center for Teaching and Learning
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Return on Investment
What if a college instructor could appreciably increase the likelihood of the long-term well-being of a student by simply having a few conversations with the student? Great Jobs Great Lives, the recently released 2014 Gallup-Purdue Index National Report, links the quality of one’s college experience with subsequent well-being and with workplace engagement. This report is an eye…
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Get Funding to Design a Hybrid Course – Proposals Due June 12, 2014
Academic Affairs is offering compensation and course development support to OSU faculty during the Fall 2014 term for the redesign of established undergraduate classroom courses as hybrid courses. Priority will be given to Bacc Core courses. Tenured/tenure-track faculty and instructors with at least 2 years of teaching at OSU are eligible to participate. These funds…
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Universal Design for Teaching and Learning
“Universal design is the design of products and environments to be usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design” –Ron Mace, NCSU Center for Universal Design Though the term “universal design” has been used since the ‘70s, full application of the principles of universal design to…
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The Rising Cost of Not Going to College
IF the primary purpose of a college education were for “private good,” then there is good news from the PEW institute. In a recent surveythe PEW foundation found that according to the Millennials, “On virtually every measure of economic well-being and career attainment—from personal earnings to job satisfaction to the share employed full time—young college…
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Ed Tech on the Edge: Demo and Dialogue
Outside of conferences like Educause, or trade expos like CES, instructors don’t have many dedicated opportunities to interact with different technologies designed for (or leveraged by) educators. OSU’s Center for Teaching and Learning sought to remedy that in its first-ever session with an exclusive focus on Ed Tech, hosted by Cub Kahn and me. The…
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Information Density in Lectures: How much content is too much?
Keeping up with the volume of information continually produced in any discipline often feels like a herculean endeavor, and that’s for experts. When we then try to structure our courses so that they reflect the “best,” “most current,” and “cutting edge” information in our field, the problem becomes all the more fraught. On a ten-week…
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What students don’t know about OSU technology
I recently had a chance to read through the Top 10 questions received by the College of Forestry’s student computing help desk during the last academic year. The range of topics in the list indicates that students’ familiarity with OSU computing resources is spotty. Moreover, students’ ability to adapt the technologies they use (from laptop…
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Emotional Intelligence in Difficult Conversations
Yesterday morning I attended a professional development workshop offered by Human Resources. One strategy the workshop “Difficult Conversations” discussed was Judy Ringer’s “4 Steps to a Successful Outcome.” This was the process of inquiry, acknowledgment, advocacy, and problem-solving. Inquiry cultivates an attitude of discovery and curiosity; acknowledgment validates that you have heard and understood the…
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Student Tech
The Chronicle of Higher Education Almanac 2013 was published this week, complete with insights from the EDUCAUSE Center for Analysis and Research’s annual survey of college students and IT. This year’s survey collected data between February and April from 112,000 students at 251 institutions. Five interesting findings: What tech trends do you see in your…