Tag: faculty development

  • CTL Lumen Learning GRANT Opportunity

    JOIN US FOR AN OPPORTUNITY TO IMPROVE THE SUCCESS OF FACULTY!  We are excited to announce a grant funded professional development opportunity with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Lumen Learning. In collaboration with the Center for Teaching and Learning, Lumen hopes to engage faculty (tenure track and fixed term) and graduate students with…

  • CTL Mutual Mentors

    About the Author: Dr. Brooke Howland provides curriculum design and pedagogical support for OSU teachers. Prior to working at OSU, Dr. Howland taught in the School of Education for University of Southern California, University of California, Irvine, and University of California, Los Angeles.  Wanting professional renewal that impacts your teaching and improves your students’ learning?…

  • Apply Now for the 2022 CTL Blended Course Redesign Program

    The Blended Learning Innovation in Pedagogy (BLIP) initiative, a partnership between the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), Academic Technologies, Ecampus, and the Office of Academic Affairs, is currently recruiting lead instructors interested in redesigning large enrollment courses on campus. Lead instructors will work alongside the BLIP Faculty Fellow, Dr. Raechel Soicher, in exploring and…

  • Call for Applications – CAAI Faculty Learning Community – Spring ‘22

    Community for the Advancement of Antiracist Instruction (CAAI): A learning community led by and for instructors and TAs The Community for the Advancement of Antiracist Instruction (CAAI) is a learning community in which instructors and TAs engage in antiracist work related to their teaching. This grassroot project was designed and will be facilitated by a…

  • Center for Teaching and Learning Winter Programming

    Winter 2022 Programming Highlights Greetings OSU faculty and staff!! All of us at the Center for Teaching and Learning welcome you to Winter term 2022!!!  The pandemic rages on but after a strong Fall term and successful return to in person classes, there is a lot to look forward to this year.  We continue to…

  • SPARKSHOPS

    Sparkshops – Learn, Reflect, Renew, Refocus Join us for the Center for Teaching and Learning’s Sparkshop: Engaging students through effective questioning: Strategies and tips on October 15, 12-12:45 PM. Login information: Register for Zoom Sparkshops focus on evidence-informed teaching practices that faculty can easily implement to support student engagement and learning success. They are meant to…

  • Career Champions Accepting Applications for New Cohort

    By Brenna Gomez About the Author: Brenna Gomez, MFA, is the university innovation alliance fellow in the Office of Academic Affairs. She has 12 years of experience working with first-generation, low-income, students of color in the nonprofit sector, support services in secondary education, and classroom teaching at the college level. Brenna teaches composition, technical writing,…

  • Going Far Together: The Benefits of Participating in a Faculty Learning Community

    “If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together.” Faculty learning communities (FLCs) provide a fail-safe place for university educators with a common interest in innovative teaching and learning practices to go far together. FLCs are interdisciplinary groups of 6 – 15 faculty members who engage in a…

  • SPS Presents: Deep dives into learning: Challenges and developments in teaching general psychology

    SPS 2019 Fall Colloquium – Regan Gurung, SPS Professor & Interim Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning What are the best ways to predict learning? How can you increase learning in large classes? In this overview of research on teaching and learning, Dr. Gurung will share some key predictors of learning, outline important…

  • Research and Development in Teaching Improvement

    Are you curious about what the research agenda is for the improvement of teaching? The Carnegie Institute  is a leader in setting the agenda for R & D. In 2011 Carnegie invited a group of nationally recognized teaching and learning experts together to discuss the research and development agenda. First the team drew a clear…