Tag: SoTL
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Support for faculty excellence: Teaching mini-grants, fellowships, and SoTL scholars
In support of faculty excellence and student success, the OSU Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) invites applications for three funded opportunities for the 2026-2027 academic year. CTL’s teaching mini-grants challenge faculty to think creatively about their teaching and make bold curricular choices to enhance student learning; faculty teaching fellowships provide opportunities for university leadership in teaching…
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Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Community of Practice in Winter ’26
Would you like to learn more about the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) and how to apply it to your own teaching? Then CTL’s winter term SoTL Community of Practice may be perfect for you! SoTL involves a systematic inquiry into teaching and learning to improve student learning. It starts with a reflective process of identifying…
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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…
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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…
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Eating your Peas, like Active Learning, not Preferred but Better for You.
[This is the first in a series of Research Advancing Pedagogy (RAP) blogs, designed to share the latest pedagogical research from across the disciplines in a pragmatic format] “I wish he would just lecture instead of all this active learning stuff. I just want to sit back and take notes.” – Overheard walking behind two…