Tag: faculty development

  • 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…

  • 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. …

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • ChatGPT = Giant Pedagogical Transformer? Join the Conversation about AI Tools

    Wow! The late 2022 buzz about ChatGPT and other generative AI tools has quickly become a crescendo that is ubiquitous in conversations about teaching and learning in higher ed this spring. Questions abound: How do AI tools work? In what aspects is their output biased? Should their use be discouraged or celebrated in the college…

  • CTL Welcomes New Blended Learning Faculty Fellow

    The Center for Teaching and Learning is pleased to announce that Meg Mobley, Senior Instructor of Crop and Soil Sciences (CSS), has been named the 2022-23 Blended Faculty Fellow. Dr. Mobley has a Ph.D. in Ecology from Duke University and completed a postdoctoral research and teaching appointment at the University of Wyoming prior to coming…

  • Call for Nominations: 2022-23 Blended Learning Faculty Fellow

    Higher ed is moving with increased vigor toward blended learning in the wake of the COVID-19 disruption. With this in mind, the Center for Teaching and Learning, Academic Technologies, Ecampus, and the Office of Academic Affairs are partnering in the second year of the Blended Learning Innovations in Pedagogy initiative to address demand for increased…

  • Respite, Renewal, and Looking Ahead!

    On behalf of the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), thank you for your passion and commitment to excellent teaching. During the 2021-2022 academic year, many obstacles arose, yet, you went above and beyond to continue serving the needs of our students. We hope you are able to find respite and renewal this summer and look…

  • Last Chance for Summer Faculty Development Opportunities

    With finals underway and graduation only days away, summer is upon us! CTL is offering two great new professional development opportunities that you can still add to your summer plans: No Strings Attached Book Club – Interested in the science of memory, alternative approaches to grading, or techniques to energize the college classroom? Get a…