OSU Center for Teaching and Learning

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  • Timely Teaching Tips: Weeks 5 and 6 – Student community building

    By Emma Larkins, OSU Center for Teaching and Learning Study groups, social annotation and group projects One of the key roles of instructors can be to support community building, which spurs engagement, interaction and collaboration among learners. Community building activities take various forms synchronously and asynchronously. They may be in a classroom or lab, in…

  • Timely Teaching Tips: Weeks 3 and 4 – Supporting student prep for course assignments and exams  

    By Emma Larkins, OSU Center for Teaching and Learning Help students tackle their term-long projects starting now   When faced with many competing responsibilities and due dates, it can be easy for students to focus on the most pressing deadlines, losing sight of the end-of-the-term. There are several strategies and resources you can use to help…

  • Lessons about optimizing learning

    By Patrick Conraads, doctoral student, OSU College of Liberal Arts “Optimizing Learning in College: Tips from Cognitive Psychology,” (Putnam et al.,2016) explores the reasons why some students are unsuccessful in college by using psychological analyses to make recommendations for students to be successful. The article discusses time management techniques, identifies some of the common mistakes…

  • 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…

  • Call for Applicants: Research on active learning in undergraduate STEM courses

    STEM faculty, want to participate in our research on active learning in undergraduate STEM courses? Participants will be compensated up to $600, they will learn about their own teaching, and they may be selected to attend a free one-day active learning workshop at the University of Oregon. Any travel expenses will be covered. If you…

  • Strong Teaching Skills Can Be built from Graduate School Onwards

    Whereas most college and university faculty and staff teach together with doing research, not many Ph.D. training programs nationwide provide teacher training in graduate school. This week, Oregon State graduate students got a chance to learn about all the Center for Teaching and Learning has to offer at Graduate Orientation. In addition, new initiatives to…