Tag: CTL mini-grants
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Learning to see in Oregon: Mobile photography, farms, and what happens in between
By Whitney Stone, OSU College of Agricultural Sciences We use our cameras every day to call, text, and scroll on social media. But have you used your camera to document how we grow our food? During Zero Week (June 15-18), students in our AGCM 200 Mobile and Drone Photography for Visual Storytelling in Agriculture and…
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The challenges and rewards of a decade-long collaborative student project
By Hailey Ferris, Rebecca Olson, and Mckenna Sonday, OSU College of Liberal Arts Introduction (Rebecca) In 2016, I initiated what would become a long-term teaching and public humanities project, a student-edited open textbook Romeo and Juliet, published with OSU’s Open Educational Resources. An innovative edition of a Shakespeare play insofar as it was designed by…
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From regulation to integration: A year of learning
By Julie Zwart, INTO OSU Last fall, just before Halloween, I joked to a couple of colleagues that if I were going to dress up for Halloween, it would be fitting for me to go as the AI Police. I had just finished a week of policing students. During three of my writing classes, I…
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Support for faculty excellence: Teaching mini-grants, fellowships, and SoTL scholars
In support of faculty excellence and student success, the OSU Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) invites applications for three funded opportunities for the 2026-2027 academic year. CTL’s teaching mini-grants challenge faculty to think creatively about their teaching and make bold curricular choices to enhance student learning; faculty teaching fellowships provide opportunities for university leadership in teaching…
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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:…
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Expanding experiential learning in agricultural education
By KJ Joseph, OSU College of Agricultural Sciences One of the most consistent things we hear from graduate students in Agricultural Education is this: they want more chances to teach before student teaching. Not just observe. Not just plan. But actually teach — messy moments, real learners, authentic settings, and all. This project was designed…
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Announcing the 2025-26 CTL Mini-Grant recipients
In Spring 2025, the Center for Teaching and Learning held an open call for teaching mini-grant proposals with up to $2,500 in funding for each proposed project. CTL’s Teaching Mini-Grants challenge instructors to think creatively about their teaching and make bold curricular choices that work towards every student graduating with meaningful learning experiences; these mini-grants…