• Top Three Tips to Promoting Student Success

    As we ready for the new academic year teachers we reviewing our course syllabi and readying for new students. Some classes are large, some are online, others are blended or hybrid courses with some teaching on line and some face-to-face. Regardless of the delivery model, there are still three critical characteristics that directly influence students’…


  • Return on Investment

    What if a college instructor could appreciably increase the likelihood of the long-term well-being of a student by simply having a few conversations with the student? Great Jobs Great Lives, the recently released 2014 Gallup-Purdue Index National Report, links the quality of one’s college experience with subsequent well-being and with workplace engagement. This report is an eye…


  • Get Funding to Design a Hybrid Course – Proposals Due June 12, 2014

    Academic Affairs is offering compensation and course development support to OSU faculty during the Fall 2014 term for the redesign of established undergraduate classroom courses as hybrid courses. Priority will be given to Bacc Core courses. Tenured/tenure-track faculty and instructors with at least 2 years of teaching at OSU are eligible to participate. These funds…