Category: Center for Teaching and Learning
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Timely Teaching Tips: Weeks 7 and 8 – Student Support Strategies
By Emma Larkins, OSU Center for Teaching and Learning Resources to support students’ physical, mental and academic well-being We are moving into the final weeks of the term. Students are busy at work on assignments, quizzes and exams, and group projects in anticipation of finals week. Take steps to help students manage their stress levels…
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Time to Spring into Resilient Teaching! Apply Now
As winter gradually begins to give way to another verdant Oregon spring, are you looking for an enjoyable way to energize your Corvallis or Cascades campus teaching? Want to join a small, supportive community of faculty focused on resilience and improvement of teaching? Join the Spring ’23 Resilient Teaching Faculty Learning Community sponsored by the…
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Teaching as Imprinting for Resilient Learning
By Seth White, OSU College of Agricultural Sciences Resilient Teaching Voices Series This winter, as I prep for teaching in spring term, I’m thinking a lot about imprinting—the process occurring early in life where key events are experienced and integrated, to be recalled and used again later in life. Imprinting is relevant to my research…
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Apply to Participate! Teaching and AI Faculty Learning Community
“… education will be able to adapt to AI far more effectively than other industries, and in ways that will improve both learning and the experience of instructors.” –Ethan Mollick, The Future of Education in a World of AI When it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education there is a lot to consider. …
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Timely Teaching Tips: Weeks 5 and 6 – Communication Strategies to Support Students
By Emma Larkins, Center for Teaching and Learning Believe it or not, we are approaching the midpoint of winter term. Many students are preparing for midterms, building presentations, and working through project plans. Academic pressures in addition to the winter conditions can challenge student wellbeing. This is a great time to check in with your…
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AI on Campus: Upcoming CTL Podcast Explores Artificial Intelligence and Education
By Raven Chakerian, Blended Learning Faculty Fellow, Center for Teaching and Learning Part of the intrigue of a podcast is its storytelling nature, and the origin story of an upcoming Center for Teaching and Learning podcast on teaching and Artificial Intelligence (AI) marks no exception. In graduate school, I looked forward to the articles focusing…
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Timely Teaching Tips: Weeks 3 and 4 – Highlighting the Academic Success Center
By Emma Larkins, Center for Teaching and Learning The Academic Success Center offers a range of resources to support the work of faculty and to bolster students’ learning. Making your students aware of these resources at this point in the term could be instrumental to their success. In addition to the robust online resources available…
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RAP ON: Helping Students Study
By Regan A.R. Gurung, Associate Vice Provost and Executive Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning and Professor of Psychological Science, Oregon State University Editor’s Note: 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 format. Teachers hope that…
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Timely Teaching Tips: Course Prep + Weeks 1 and 2
By Emma Larkins, Center for Teaching and Learning Get winter term off to a successful start! Preparing for the term and setting the tone in the first few weeks of the course are important to both the instructor and students. Here are tips and strategies from considering a welcoming syllabus, to setting up your Canvas…
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Resilient Teaching in Spite of Technology Changes
By Peder Nelson, Senior Instructor, CEOAS Digital technology has held much promise for discovery, research, and long-term impacts for teaching and learning about nearly any subject. For me, as an instructor of computer-based coursework that attempts to build foundational technology skills along with particular domain expertise that takes us into fundamental concepts about how to…