Tag: faculty development
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Call for participation: Winter ’25 Teaching and AI Faculty Learning Community
Invitation The goal isn’t to outsmart AI or to pretend it doesn’t exist, but to harness its potential to enhance education while mitigating the downside. The question now is not whether AI will change education, but how we will shape that change to create a more effective, equitable, and engaging learning environment for all.” ––Ethan Mollick,…
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Autumn leaves and learning: Upcoming events
We hope to see you in the coming weeks at these professional development opportunities for Oregon State University faculty and GTAs: CTL Quality Teaching (QT) Talk: The Courage to Teach Tuesday, Oct. 29, 3:30 to 4:20 p.m. in LINC 350 and via Zoom – Parker J. Palmer’s classic book emphasizes the deep interconnections between student,…
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Empower your teaching: Fall ’24 professional development events
Teaching faculty, mark your calendars! Engage with colleagues in these events brought to you by the Center for Teaching and Learning and other OSU faculty support units. Check the CTL events calendar, Academic Technologies events calendar, and Ecampus Online Teaching Workshops and Events for the latest updates and details. Also see upcoming AI events and…
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Introducing Ashley Holmes, Associate Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning
Editor’s note: Ashley Holmes joined Oregon State University in July as the associate vice provost for teaching and learning in the Division of Academic Affairs. Ashley oversees the Center for Teaching and Learning, collaborates with units across campus, and works closely with units in Academic Affairs. Prior to coming to OSU, Ashley was the interim…
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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…
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Time to Spring into Resilient Teaching! Apply Now
As winter gradually begins to give way to another verdant Oregon spring, are you looking for an enjoyable way to energize your Corvallis or Cascades campus teaching? Want to join a small, supportive community of faculty focused on resilience and improvement of teaching? Join the Spring ’23 Resilient Teaching Faculty Learning Community sponsored by the…
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Apply to Participate! Teaching and AI Faculty Learning Community
“… education will be able to adapt to AI far more effectively than other industries, and in ways that will improve both learning and the experience of instructors.” –Ethan Mollick, The Future of Education in a World of AI When it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education there is a lot to consider. …
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My Increasing Fascination and Use of Generative AI
By Laura Rees, Associate Professor, College of Business Editor’s Note: This faculty guest post marks the first anniversary of the public release of ChatGPT. The Center for Teaching and Learning invites first-person posts from OSU faculty about applications of generative AI to teaching and learning. What do providing source code for how to show videos…
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Build Resilience! Join a Resilient Teaching Cohort This Winter
Want to be part of a supportive community of faculty focused on resilience and improvement of teaching? Looking for an enjoyable way to energize your Corvallis or Cascades campus teaching? Join the Winter ’24 Resilient Teaching Faculty Learning Community sponsored by the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL). A small cohort of faculty from across…
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New! Apply to Join the Teaching and AI Faculty Learning Community
“Ready or not, ChatGPT is now in your classroom. It can write papers, essays, and poems. It can create art and write computer code in many languages. This is not however the time to panic; it is the time to focus on the value you offer students as their instructor.” –Ryan Watkins, Update Your Course…