Tag: teaching
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Feeling Burnt Out?
About the author: Inara Scott, Ph.D. is Assistant Dean for Teaching and Learning Excellence in the OSU College of Business. She also serves as the 2020-21 Provost’s Fellow. As we draw close to the one year mark from when we left campus, I’m hearing more and more from faculty and students who are feeling–to put…
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Join Spring Learning Community: Due Date Extended
There’s still plenty of time to get your proposal in to join the Spring ’21 Blended Faculty Learning Community. The due date has been extended to March 8. Professional development funding is provided! The Spring learning community will explore and develop solutions for personal teaching challenges through effective use of educational technology. These challenges may…
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Join the Fall Conversation on Blended Learning!
Wondering how to engage students in blended courses, now or in the future? Academic Technology and CTL invite instructors and tenured/tenure-track faculty who teach Corvallis and Cascades campus courses to join a small, cross-disciplinary faculty cohort and explore blended learning and ed tech during Fall term. The group will have lively, interactive meetings twice a…
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New Guides to Blended and Remote Teaching
Just in time for a Fall term in which most Corvallis and Cascades courses will be offered in either remote or blended formats, two new Center for Teaching and Learning tutorials walk you through the design and teaching of courses in these challenging modalities. Successful Blended and Remote Course Design, Part One and Part Two,…
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RAP ON: A Crisis Preparedness Kit for Educators
About the author: Sydney Tran is a Health Psychology PhD student studying the effects of objectification on women’s well-being. She is passionate about equity, diversity, and inclusivity in improving mental health and well-being. 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…
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Sign up for Course Design and Teaching Workshops!
These workshops are a great way to prepare for the challenges of teaching in Fall ‘20. The workshops will include both asynchronous activities and a 90-minute synchronous Zoom session. Workshops are open to all OSU faculty and GTAs. Register now! Workshop details, including Zoom login information, will be emailed to you. Additionally, most colleges…
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Pedagogical Boosters
Last week, Cub Kahn posted a blog titled, Practical Solutions to Remote Learning Issues. In that issue, an infographic on remote learning issues, along with practical, evidence-based solutions were shared. This week, the Center for Teaching and Learning is sharing a second infographic, Pedagogical Boosters. But don’t worry, while we often may feel a pinch…
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Long-Term Instructors Share Most Valuable Skills for Online Teaching
by Mary Ellen Dello Stritto, Ph.D., Director, OSU Ecampus Research Unit The teaching and learning field is busy tackling the unprecedented challenges of emergency remote teaching, and planning for many possibilities of hybrid, blended, remote and online teaching and learning in the upcoming summer and fall terms. Many are looking to their colleagues who have…
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Remote Teaching = Blended Learning: Part 2
At the outset of Oregon State’s Spring term in late March, the first post in this series suggested considering this sudden shift to remote teaching as an extension of the widely used, evidence-based blended learning modality. Now that we’ve passed the halfway point of the term and faculty are thinking ahead to Summer Session remote…
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Remote Teaching = A New Kind of Blended Learning
Blended learning, in which classroom learning activity is integrated with online learning activity, has been on the rise over the past two decades. Nationally, a large portion of faculty and students express a preference toward blended approaches and substantial research supports the efficacy of this approach. Now with the abrupt transition to remote teaching in…