Tag: CTL
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CTL at University Day 2019
The 2019 University Day Expo provided a showcase of the many resources available to Faculty and Staff and OSU. The Center for Teaching and Learning was a visible participant and the booth provided a great opportunity to share what is going on up on the 4th floor of LInC. If you missed the chance to…
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Gurung named interim executive director of CTL
Regan A. R. Gurung has been appointed as interim executive director for the Center for Teaching and Learning at Oregon State University, effective Aug. 26. The appointment was announced by Alix Gitelman, vice provost for undergraduate education. Gurung, who joined the psychology faculty in the School of Psychological Science earlier this year, is an internationally…
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Sign up for Guided Review of Your Blended, Flipped or Hybrid Course
This CTL workshop on Tuesday, July 9, offers a great opportunity for you to use new course review guidelines to take a close look at a blended, flipped or hybrid course you teach. You’ll be guided through a self-assessment of one of your courses to explore strengths of the course design and delivery and potential…
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Congratulations, OSU Graduates!
The Center for Teaching and Learning congratulates all Oregon State University graduates in the Class of ’19 and offers our best wishes for a wonderful future! And as another academic year draws to a close, we extend our deep appreciation to all OSU teaching faculty for everything you’ve done this year on behalf of your…
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Teaching Hybrid: What Works Well?
The Center for Teaching and Learning surveyed OSU Corvallis and Cascades campus faculty in Oct. 2016 to determine effective hybrid teaching practices from the perspective of instructors. Results: There was significant consensus among the 28 respondents from 7 OSU colleges. More than three-fourths of the instructors that used each of the following 11 practices rated…
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OSU Faculty Prepare To Teach in World-class LINC Facility
OSU’s Learning Innovation Center, also known as the LINC, will be open for business beginning fall term of 2015! Teaching in a round space may have its challenges, and veteran instructors who will be teaching in this world-class facility have been preparing to make the transition from teaching in traditional rowed-seating classrooms to state-of-the-art circular…
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Institutional Proficiency Levels?
Dear Colleagues, Vicki Tolar Burton and I recently received an interesting question from a new OSU teacher: What [are the] general expectations at OSU for undergraduate writing competencies, and what resources are there for a student whose skills are less than adequate? CTL Response: Your question is appropriate and pertinent. At this point, no institutional…
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Grade distributions: What’s appropriate?
I recently received an inquiry in the Center for Teaching and Learning asking for advice on the “appropriate grade distribution” for a class. In fact, there is not an ideal grade distribution. The idea of grades, as opposed to narrative reports, were introduced to schooling early in the industrial revolution as a method of sorting…
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Is Your Grading Model Fair or a Risk Factor?
The processes teachers use to calculate grades can be a major risk factor for students… and institutionally, we need to stop and take a look at whether we are using what the research suggests as being fair. At Oregon State University, The Center for Teaching and Learning take this type of issue very seriously. Last…
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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’…