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OSU’s UIT-Academic Technology and Center for Teaching and Learning are committed to your success in remote and blended teaching. Use the resources on this page to sharpen your skills and enhance student learning.
Faculty can leverage online technologies for remote and blended teaching, particularly Canvas and Zoom. Providing a consistent approach for students across the university will be greatly beneficial.
Access support and training resources on Canvas, Zoom, media, teaching strategies, and classroom technology. Many support options are available including consultations, how-to guides, in-class support, and scheduled training.
Remote and blended teaching present new pedagogical challenges. Use this form to contact CTL for a 1-on-1 teaching consultation.
Find out how to prepare video and deliver it to your students using the tools provided by Oregon State: Zoom, Kaltura, and Canvas.
This document summarizes sources of support, clarifies terminology around course delivery modalities, and outlines expectations for the delivery of all OSU credit-bearing classes during winter 2021.
As units consider their operations for the 2020-21 academic year, this document further clarifies expectations and approaches for how the university ensures holistic engagement with students.
March 16, 2021
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Strengthen your skills with a new, self-paced workshop, Designing and Teaching an Effective Remote/Blended Course.
Use the Remote and Blended Teaching Canvas template, as you begin to build future courses.
Using Canvas to Give Better Feedback to Students — Wondering how you can give your students more efficient and effective feedback through Canvas, and providing ways to incorporate opportunities for formative assessment in your courses? This workshop is for you: https://beav.es/JJq
Canvas Course Checklist — Are you a new user seeking the best approaches to using Canvas, or are you a returning user looking to learn more about the toolset? Learn to apply the Canvas course checklist: https://beav.es/JJc
Designing your Canvas Site for an Improved Student Experience — Are your students saying they can’t find things in your Canvas site? Have you wondered whether it’s a good idea to post course materials in Canvas Files? (hint: it’s not!) View exemplary Canvas course sites that illustrate a student-oriented structure that help improve student experience: https://beav.es/J3R
Building Instructor Presence: The Little Things Matter — Have you wondered what it looks like to “show up” for your remote students and seeking ways to up your instructor presence game? Learn how much the little things you can do to be present matter to your students: https://beav.es/Jcf
Get Started with Gradescope — Wondering how to set up remote or in-person assignments where students can submit handwritten work or drawings? Want to learn how to grade your existing exams and homework more efficiently regardless of assessment modalities? See how Gradescope works: https://beav.es/JjU
Proctorio Gradebook Training —Staff from Academic Technology, Ecampus and Proctorio demonstrate strategies for using and understanding information in the Proctorio Gradebook: https://beav.es/Jjw
About the Author: Madeline Nichols is a doctoral student in the College of Public Health and Human Sciences at Oregon State University. Studying in the Human Development and Family Studies program, her research broadly focuses on how older adults and … Continue reading →
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People spend more time in virtual worlds than ever before. And educators are leveraging these popular forms of recorded and interactive escapism to increase student engagement. Recently academic departments have begun to experiment with the use of virtual reality (VR) headsets, which have become much easier to use and far less expensive. Headsets can make… Continue reading →
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Well, not actual psychologists. Peter Sparks will gladly put you in your armchair psychologist place. (JK, Peter is awesome) If you haven’t seen it, try out this awareness test. Our brains like to filter out stimuli that doesn’t seem relevant. From a physiology perspective, your sensory nerves are trying to communicate all the time; your… Continue reading →
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