• Using a fishbowl to teach

    By Brooke O’Brien, Center for Teaching and Learning What is the Fishbowl Teaching Strategy? In its simplest form, as described in the Center for Teaching and Learning’s Instructional Strategy Cards, the fishbowl teaching strategy gets its name from the way it organizes students. A “closed conversation” includes a smaller “inner circle” made up of “conversationalists,”…


  • The power of play in resilient teaching

    By Erica Woekel, College of Health and OSU Extension Take a moment to think back on your childhood and what your favorite game or activity was to play. Some of my favorites were playing with dolls, cars, dressing up, cards and board games, playing ‘school’, and being outside creating inventive stories for hours.  Playing is…


  • Call for participation: Winter ’25 Teaching and AI Faculty Learning Community

    Invitation The goal isn’t to outsmart AI or to pretend it doesn’t exist, but to harness its potential to enhance education while mitigating the downside. The question now is not whether AI will change education, but how we will shape that change to create a more effective, equitable, and engaging learning environment for all.” ––Ethan Mollick,…