Category: Center for Teaching and Learning
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Flipped Learning
Have you heard about flipped learning, but you aren’t quite sure what it is or whether you want to try it? Is there solid evidence that it fosters student success and engagement? If you’re trying to answer these questions, check out A Review of Flipped Learning, a new report based on the growing body of…
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First Generation Academics Reflect
Below you will find an anonymous reflection by a first generation academic: neither of her parents graduated from college with a four year degree and she not only earned her BA, but went on to earn a MEd and finally a PhD. She is one of many university faculty who are attending the OSU Center…
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Research and Development in Teaching Improvement
Are you curious about what the research agenda is for the improvement of teaching? The Carnegie Institute is a leader in setting the agenda for R & D. In 2011 Carnegie invited a group of nationally recognized teaching and learning experts together to discuss the research and development agenda. First the team drew a clear…
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Excellence in Media: Leading by Example
Last Thursday marked the first meeting of the Excellence in Media Professional Learning Community (PLC), a group of OSU instructors interested in delivering high-quality videos to students and peers. Today more than ever, faculty who want to delve into video production as a means to enhance their classes have many powerful, affordable hardware and software…
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Constructing Support for University Teaching
The lives of university faculty are busy; professors must be strategic about how they balance valuable time between research, service, teaching and family. Regrettably, the current institutional reward structure for the continued improvement of teaching lags far behind those for research and service. And yet, the classroom is a university’s key point of contact with…
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Dumbing Down or Teaching UP?
Public education is committed to the ideal that all students must have equitable access to learning…equitable is the key word here. Brain research confirms what every teacher has known for centuries: students vary widely in their prior knowledge, skill development and readiness to learn. While private schools may have the freedom to sort and select…
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Reflections on National Postdoctoral Association 2013 Annual Meeting
I’m grateful to Barb Bond, Director of OSU’s Office for Postdoctoral Programs, for encouraging me to develop a poster and attend this year’s National Postdoctoral Association 2013 Annual Meeting that was held in Charleston, SC, this past weekend (March 15-17). I’ve been working with Barb for the past year to develop and deliver workshops about…
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Education Dis-ease
I have been an educator for over thirty years: from elementary school to a tier-one research institution. I have noticed over the years, a general trend that I find curious…at the very least. Education, like any other discipline, has it’s own vocabulary…words like “objective,” “rubric,” yes, even “assessment” and “evaluation” have specific and clear meanings…
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Emerging Tech in Higher Ed . . .
The 2013 Higher Education Edition” href=”http://www.nmc.org/news/horizon-report-2013-higher-ed-edition-here” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>NMC Horizon Report > 2013 Higher Education Edition was released this week in conjunction with the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative’s annual meeting in Denver. This yearly report highlights emerging technologies that show potential to have a major impact on teaching and learning in higher ed over three different “adoption…