Category: Center for Teaching and Learning
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Join the OSU Digital Accessibility Community
About the OSU Digital Accessibility Community The Ally accessibility tool in Canvas is about to turn one year old! Now that many faculty are using Ally to check course content, they have questions about how to improve accessibility of their course materials. In order to deliver focused support for the remainder of the academic year,…
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ChatGPT = Giant Pedagogical Transformer? Join the Conversation about AI Tools
Wow! The late 2022 buzz about ChatGPT and other generative AI tools has quickly become a crescendo that is ubiquitous in conversations about teaching and learning in higher ed this spring. Questions abound: How do AI tools work? In what aspects is their output biased? Should their use be discouraged or celebrated in the college…
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New Tool for Faculty Peer Review of Canvas Discussions
Faculty peer reviews of teaching benefit faculty and students in a variety of ways. Peer review is endorsed and recognized within and outside of OSU as an evidence-based practice that supports quality teaching, and is also a component of promotion and tenure dossiers for many OSU faculty. In a campus-based course, a peer reviewer may…
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Celebrating our Teaching Award Winners!
Every year, close to 2,000 OSU teaching faculty work hard to provide our students with an exceptional college experience. Being an effective educator takes work. Course design, assessment and course delivery all involve energy. Over the last few years, our teaching faculty kept teaching even through a pandemic. We, the staff of the Center for…
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JOIN CTL’s “Read, Reflect, Reform” Spring Book Club
Join the Center for Teaching and Learning’s “Are You IN(clusive)? READ, REFLECT, REFORM” Spring Book Club. The Read, Reflect, Reform book clubs use a blended format with 2 synchronous meetings (times set by the group, in person or remote) and asynchronous activities. Activities commence Spring Term 2023. You will receive free – Inclusive Teaching: Strategies for Promoting Equity in the College Classroom…
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Radical Empathy: 5 Ways to Make Your Teaching More Inclusive
By Katie Hubler, Ph.D., CTL Special Projects Fellow. Katie’s area of expertise is radical empathy in teaching; well-balanced teaching; course and assignment redesign; and education in the Anthropocene. What is radical empathy? “Radical Empathy” (RE) is a model of holistic, inclusive teaching that can help instructors foster a welcoming and equitable university classroom. It utilizes…
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RSVP NOW for the CTL’s Celebration of Quality Teaching!!
Thursday, May 4, 2023, 4:30pm – Reception to follow | MU Horizon Room 49 Hors d’oeuvres and non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages will be served after a short program recognizing Teaching Awardees, and a presentation by Dwaine Plaza, recipient of the 2022 Richard M. Bressler Senior Faculty Teaching Award. RSVP at https://beav.es/SiC
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Spring into Resilient Teaching
Searching for a supportive community of faculty focused on resilience and improvement of teaching? Looking for an enjoyable way to energize your Corvallis or Cascades campus teaching this spring? Join the Spring ’23 Resilient Teaching Faculty Learning Community sponsored by the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) and Academic Technologies. A small cohort of faculty…
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Course Design Bootcamp
Have you heard of the Course Design Institute? How about the Course Design Bootcamp? Join the CTL in a streamlined sequence of workshops and activities to learn backwards course design approaches to (re)develop your course. Two consecutive Friday afternoons. March 17 & March 24 | 2PM to 5PM | LINC 307 | Space is limited.…
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Canvas Hack: Using Outcomes to Generate Assurance of Learning Reports
About the Author: John Morris is Senior Instructor I in the College of Business. Prior to joining OSU in 2009, he worked at Hewlett-Packard Company in software and technology training. He was part of the OSU Blackboard to Canvas LMS (Learning Management System) transition in 2013 and 2014 and was a College of Business Peer…