OSU Center for Teaching and Learning

Tag: research

  • From gut feeling to data-driven: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

    By Tasha Randall, OSU College of Health As teaching faculty, we are often interested in what might make our teaching more effective or improve the experiences of our students. To achieve these goals, we may focus on refining our course content, designing effective assignments, engaging our students, and assessing their learning. These are all valuable…

  • Can AI be a partner in fostering metacognition and self-regulated learning?

    A look at how AI might support student planning, monitoring, and self-reflection in learning By Joseph J. Slade, OSU School of Psychological Science Educators have long guided students not only by sharing knowledge but also by helping them develop the ability to plan, monitor, and reflect on their own learning. These metacognitive skills are what…

  • Apply now for the Ecampus Research Fellows Program

    If you are interested in conducting research about online teaching and learning, the Ecampus Research Unit will help you plan your proposal for the Ecampus Research Fellows Program.  The Ecampus Research Unit annually funds faculty and/or department projects—$25,000 each—to support research in the areas of distance and online education, including hybrid delivery.  Info sessions will be…

  • Learning on location at an engaged learning research seminar

    By Meg Mobley, OSU Dept. of Crop and Soil Science I have been reading about place-based approaches to teaching for a while and have dabbled with them while designing and teaching my general education natural science courses. I’m interested in the potential for these approaches to encourage students to build on their own prior knowledge…

  • AI in education: Enhancing learning or eroding critical thinking?

    By Joseph J. Slade, OSU School of Psychological Science Artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT have exploded onto the educational scene, bringing both excitement and concern. Faculty and instructional designers find themselves grappling with a burning question: Does student use of AI enhance learning outcomes, or does it hinder deep learning and critical thinking? Given…

  • RAP ON: Does using AI aid learning? There is certainly promise.

    By Regan A.R. Gurung, Associate Vice Provost and Executive Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning and Professor of Psychological Science, Oregon State University It seems like the world is divided into two main groups of people. There are those who think a lot about artificial intelligence (AI) and grapple with how best to have…

  • RAP ON: Helping Students Study

    By Regan A.R. Gurung, Associate Vice Provost and Executive Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning and Professor of Psychological Science, Oregon State University Editor’s Note: This is part of our series of Research Advancing Pedagogy (RAP) blogs, designed to share the latest pedagogical research from across the disciplines in a pragmatic format. Teachers hope that…

  • RAP ON: Take Note of This: Using Outlines and Illustrations During Lecture Note Taking

    About the author: Regan A. R. Gurung, Ph.D. is Associate Vice Provost and Executive Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Oregon State University and Professor of Psychological Science. This is part of our series of Research Advancing Pedagogy (RAP) blogs, designed to share the latest pedagogical research from across the disciplines in a pragmatic…

  • Join the Quality Teaching Talk on Oct. 31: Questions as Teaching Tools

    By Emma Larkins, Center for Teaching and Learning CTL invites speakers to share pedagogical practices and strategies that can help bring the Quality Teaching (QT) framework to life for learning communities at OSU. Each QT Talk homes in on a principle from the framework with a focus on imparting tangible, practical ways to bring it…

  • Panel Discussion: Accelerating Your Research Using AI

    You’re invited to see how OSU researchers across a range of disciplines use Large Language Models and many other artificial intelligence tools to help them understand and summarize research papers, write code for analysis, process and visualize large amounts of data, and much more, in a dynamic panel format.  Where: MU Horizon Room 49 or…