Tag: tools
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Will another app actually help me stay organized? This one will.
By Danielle Skinner, OSU College of Science I am one of those people who finds a new app and thinks, “This. This is going to skyrocket my production and creativity.” I try it for a few weeks, but it never works its way into my routine, or it’s clunky and there are features about it…
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Bridging Ancient Wisdom and Modern Teaching Methods
By Jie Zhang, OSU College of Science Resilient Teaching Voices Series Resilient teaching involves instructors adapting and thriving in the face of challenges, disruptions, and uncertainties. It encourages flexibility, innovation, and the ability to navigate various obstacles in the educational landscape. Resilient teaching involves two aspects to me: being resilient on the instructor side, but…
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ChatGPT = Giant Pedagogical Transformer? Join the Conversation about AI Tools
Wow! The late 2022 buzz about ChatGPT and other generative AI tools has quickly become a crescendo that is ubiquitous in conversations about teaching and learning in higher ed this spring. Questions abound: How do AI tools work? In what aspects is their output biased? Should their use be discouraged or celebrated in the college…
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Leveraging Zoom Tools to Engage Students
Student engagement is indispensable in the current remote and blended teaching and learning environment. James Lang, author of the well-known Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning, speaks to this challenge in the newly published Distracted: Why Students Can’t Focus and What You Can Do About It. “We will not succeed in teaching…
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RAP ON: What’s All the Kahoot! About?
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…
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Call for Proposals (Spring 2020 pilot): The Applying Learning Technology Community — @ALT Community
The Spring 2020 pilot of the Applying Learning Technology — @ALT Community will provide an opportunity for faculty participants to meet regularly to learn about and reflect on their teaching, with a focus on effective uses of learning technologies. Community participants will investigate and provide learning technology solutions to a significant teaching-related problem of their…
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Show Your Work: Teaching Philosophies & Portfolios
by: Shannon Hampton, InstructorCollege of Business, Design and Innovation Management What is the value of having a teaching philosophy and a portfolio? Today we learned in the T4 Presentation: Teaching Philosophies and Portfolios, the answer to this question and many more. 57% of people applying for faculty positions are using a portfolio in place of…