• Last chance! Join the student engagement community of practice now

    The Center for Teaching and Learning invites teaching faculty to join the new community of practice on facilitating student success through engagement across modalities and class sizes. Individuals who teach large-enrollment courses or teach in multiple modalities are especially welcome. The community of practice will focus on small changes or minor adaptations that can be made in courses to…


  • Intentional AI Spotlight: Nate Kirk on cultivating productive failure in biology

    By Demian Hommel, CTL AI in Teaching and Learning Fellow in partnership with the AI Literacy Center As part of the ongoing Intentional AI at OSU series, I sat down with Nate Kirk, an associate professor (teaching) in the Department of Integrative Biology. Nate’s background as a molecular ecologist—studying the intricate symbiotic relationships between cnidarians…


  • Centering community in the classroom: Experiential approaches in ethnic studies

    By Jennifer A. Reimer Recio, OSU-Cascades What happens when students encounter course concepts through lived experience, dialogue, and shared space? This question guided my CTL mini-grant project, Embodied Perspectives: Integrating Scholar and Community Voices in Ethnic Studies. With support from the OSU Center for Teaching and Learning, I developed a speaker series across ES 201:…