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Category Archives: Center for Teaching and Learning
The 4 Properties of Powerful Teaching
Article in the Chronicle of Higher Education outlines four broad characteristics of powerful teachers: Personality,Presence, Preparation and Passion. http://m.chronicle.com/article/The-4-Properties-of-Powerful/228483/ Using their article as a launching point, I have added a few tips and tricks below. Powerful teachers have personalities that … Continue reading
Institutional Proficiency Levels?
Dear Colleagues, Vicki Tolar Burton and I recently received an interesting question from a new OSU teacher: What [are the] general expectations at OSU for undergraduate writing competencies, and what resources are there for a student whose skills are less … Continue reading
Grade distributions: What’s appropriate?
I recently received an inquiry in the Center for Teaching and Learning asking for advice on the “appropriate grade distribution” for a class. In fact, there is not an ideal grade distribution. The idea of grades, as opposed to narrative … Continue reading
Is Your Grading Model Fair or a Risk Factor?
The processes teachers use to calculate grades can be a major risk factor for students… and institutionally, we need to stop and take a look at whether we are using what the research suggests as being fair. At Oregon State … Continue reading
Top Three Tips to Promoting Student Success
As we ready for the new academic year teachers we reviewing our course syllabi and readying for new students. Some classes are large, some are online, others are blended or hybrid courses with some teaching on line and some face-to-face. … Continue reading
Return on Investment
What if a college instructor could appreciably increase the likelihood of the long-term well-being of a student by simply having a few conversations with the student? Great Jobs Great Lives, the recently released 2014 Gallup-Purdue Index National Report, links the quality of … Continue reading
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Tagged mentor, teaching, well-being
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Get Funding to Design a Hybrid Course – Proposals Due June 12, 2014
Academic Affairs is offering compensation and course development support to OSU faculty during the Fall 2014 term for the redesign of established undergraduate classroom courses as hybrid courses. Priority will be given to Bacc Core courses. Tenured/tenure-track faculty and instructors … Continue reading
Universal Design for Teaching and Learning
“Universal design is the design of products and environments to be usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design” –Ron Mace, NCSU Center for Universal Design Though the term “universal design” … Continue reading
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Tagged accessibility, universal design
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The Rising Cost of Not Going to Collge
IF the primary purpose of a college education were for “private good,” then there is good news from the PEW institute. In a recent survey the PEW foundation found that according to the Millennials, “On virtually every measure of economic … Continue reading
Ed Tech on the Edge: Demo and Dialogue
Outside of conferences like Educause, or trade expos like CES, instructors don’t have many dedicated opportunities to interact with different technologies designed for (or leveraged by) educators. OSU’s Center for Teaching and Learning sought to remedy that in its first-ever … Continue reading
