• Timely Teaching Tips: Weeks 9, 10 and Finals – Resources to support student well-being

    By Emma Larkins, OSU Center for Teaching and Learning Supporting students down the home stretch The final weeks of the spring term bring special challenges for students simultaneously completing final assignments and assessments in multiple courses at the end of a long academic year. Fortunately, Oregon State University has plentiful resources and services tailored to…


  • Elevate your teaching in a faculty learning community: Deadline extended to June 12

    The growth of any craft depends on shared practice and honest dialogue among the people who do it. We grow by trial and error, to be sure—but our willingness to try, and fail, as individuals is severely limited when we are not supported by a community that encourages such risks. – Parker Palmer, The Courage to Teach The Center…


  • Timely Teaching Tips: Weeks 7 and 8 – All about grading practices 

    By Emma Larkins, OSU Center for Teaching and Learning A feedback/assessment tool and alternative grading frameworks It is potentially beneficial to reflect on the relationship between learning and learning assessment, to explore improvement of grading practices and feedback, and to consider how tools can make grading both more efficient and more consistent. Suggested resources: About…