Category: Center for Teaching and Learning
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How do you define resiliency?
By Matt Kennedy, OSU College of Agricultural Sciences Resilient Teaching Voices Series What is resiliency to you? As defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary: It is the ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change. I’ve been teaching at Oregon State University since the fall of 2008 and as I look at the…
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Big connections, big solutions: Global learning across the curriculum
By Emily Davis Malewitz, OSU College of Liberal Arts As a language instructor, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about ways to incorporate global learning into my teaching and help my students develop strong intercultural skills. Language classrooms are, of course, a natural fit for international education, and we often think of the best-known…
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CTL and Global Affairs present: Faculty panel on global learning
OSU Faculty will share their techniques for bringing global learning into their teaching. Presentations are 10 minutes each followed by Q&A. Thursday, November 20, 3:30 to 4:45 p.m., in MU 213 – La Raza Room (in-person only) International Education Week: Join us in celebrating Oregon State University’s global achievements, impacts, and community during International Education…
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Community at the heart of resiliency
By Kryn Freehling-Burton, OSU School of Language, Culture, and Society Reflecting on my own teaching and learning consistently leads me to community. Compassion, nourishment, learning, and creativity run through my own resiliency and the ways I see students respond in the classroom, particularly since the pandemic lockdown. All of these are sharpened in community. “When we decide to…
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Explore humanities teaching innovations: Beyond the classroom
Looking for new ideas for the humanities classroom? You’re not alone — traditional essay assignments have become fraught in the age of generative AI. Drop in for a lunchtime conversation on re-invigorating humanities teaching practices. The event will include three short presentations that focus on useful takeaways for faculty, followed by Q&A. Each presenter will…
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Resilient teaching in an Abnormal Psychology course
By Deborah Becht-Buss, OSU-Cascades Resilient teaching often means letting go of control—trusting students to find their own pathways to understanding. In my Abnormal Psychology course, this meant saying yes when a student asked, “Can I use Piglet to explain anxiety?” The result has transformed not only how my students learn, but how I teach. The…
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From gut feeling to data-driven: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
By Tasha Randall, OSU College of Health As teaching faculty, we are often interested in what might make our teaching more effective or improve the experiences of our students. To achieve these goals, we may focus on refining our course content, designing effective assignments, engaging our students, and assessing their learning. These are all valuable…
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Fall 2025 teaching support from the Center for Teaching and Learning
The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) is offering a variety of Fall 2025 programming to support your teaching excellence and effectiveness. Beyond the events listed below, CTL offers consultations, focus groups with your students, and tailored workshops for unit or college meetings. Email ctl@oregonstate.edu to make a request. Fall Workshops and Sparkshops: Register now Peers & Pedagogy: For graduate…
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Learning on location at an engaged learning research seminar
By Meg Mobley, OSU Dept. of Crop and Soil Science I have been reading about place-based approaches to teaching for a while and have dabbled with them while designing and teaching my general education natural science courses. I’m interested in the potential for these approaches to encourage students to build on their own prior knowledge…
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OSU AI Book Club Call for Participation – Fall ’25
Invitation We see nothing less than a revolution. AI will change education even more fundamentally than the internet did. The magnitude of these changes calls for a broad, sweeping view of what will come next, and what changes as a result of AI’s presence and undeniability. —Yee, Uttich, Giltner, & Bojanowski, Coach for the Approach The…