Category: Center for Teaching and Learning
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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…
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Teaching and Assessing Critical Thinking
As educators we all want our students to become better problem solvers, to think outside of the box, to create novel and insightful solutions. But thinking, like other skills, must be modeled, practiced, practiced and practiced. It is only with frequent practice and targeted feedback that thinking will improve.Is all thinking created equal?Do the disciplines…
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