• Many individual students, one individual instructor!

    By Scott Geddes, OSU-Cascades One of the notable educational outcomes I have experienced in the post-pandemic era has been the change in the public high school system (https://leadershipblog.act.org/2023/10/act-scores-decline.html) and subsequently I have noted a widening in the preparation level of incoming student bodies, particularly in the large enrollment prerequisite classes. As educators and instructors, we…


  • Timely Teaching Tips: Weeks 5 and 6 – Student community building

    By Emma Larkins, OSU Center for Teaching and Learning Study groups, social annotation and group projects One of the key roles of instructors can be to support community building, which spurs engagement, interaction and collaboration among learners. Community building activities take various forms synchronously and asynchronously. They may be in a classroom or lab, in…


  • Incorporating resilient pedagogy within experiential learning

    By Karen Elliott, OSU College of Health As we move into Spring term, it is always filled with so many possibilities and excitement for commencement at the end of the term and of course, the excitement of warmer weather as well! As an internship coordinator, it is one of my busiest terms, with supervising internships in…