Students often start Asuman Turkmen’s Elementary Statistics course at very different places: Some already have Advanced Placement mathematics courses under their belts, while others have barely studied statistics.
This gap in knowledge has been a longstanding challenge for Turkmen, an associate professor at The Ohio State University at Newark. How could she better teach the entire class, she wondered, without boring some students — or scaring away others?
Thanks to the Teaching Support Program, Turkmen is using more evidence-based practices to motivate her students and encourage class participation — all while responding to the range of knowledge that her students bring to the course.
As Ohio State University faculty gear up for the spring semester, the University Institute for Teaching and Learning recommends James Lang's Advice Guide, "How to Teach a Good First Day Class," published by the Chronicle of Higher Education. Lang is a frequent contributor and professor of English and the director of the D'Amour Center for Teaching Excellence at Assumption College in Worcester, Mass. The four principles outlined in the guide target student curiosity, community, learning and expectations, and the guide also highlights a number of other excellent resources for the first day and beyond.
Attending a conference? Meeting you can’t reschedule? Family obligations? There's no need to cancel your class: The Dennis Learning Center can help. A DLC workshop can assist your students to acquire learning and motivational skills that lead to college success. The DLC facilitates workshops on a variety of topics that are beneficial for students of all years and levels (undergraduate and graduate/professional students).
Workshops are approximately 45 minutes, although workshop lengths and focuses can be modified to fit your needs. Questions? Contact DLC Program Manager, Jackie von Spiegel at dlc@osu.edu or 614-688-4011. To request a...
The Ohio State University Student Government has announced an award to recognize the importance of a strongly organized Carmen site to student learning. Developed in collaboration with the Office of Distance Education, the University Institute for Teaching and Learning, and the Council on Distance Education, Libraries and Information Technology, the Carmen Common Sense Award recognizes Carmen pages that go above and beyond to utilize the tools Carmen has to offer.
Carmen Common Sense and the award acknowledge what USG leaders have been hearing from students. While Carmen is designed to make classes more accessible and connect students to the...
University Libraries offers a new Teaching Endorsement through which instructors will learn how to purposefully and strategically teach information literacy skills and concepts in their classes. To earn the endorsement, participants will compete a self-paced, fully online course called Teaching Information Literacy , and they will develop an action plan for integrating information literacy into a course.
In honor of The Ohio State University’s 150 year anniversary, a six-part mini documentary series, Our Stories, Our Future, will highlight topics including Ohio State’s land-grant heritage, student experience and international reach. Episode two of Our Stories, Our Future, featuring Kay Halasek, director of the University Institute for Teaching and Learning (UITL), explores how UITL’s Teaching Support Program is elevating the university’s teaching and learning mission and supporting student success as education continues to evolve.
The Student Life Multicultural Center (SLMCC)'s Week of Action will be held Nov. 12-16. This initiative that seeks to reach out to the entire Ohio State campus community in an effort to encourage students, staff and faculty to act in solidarity with and on behalf of people who are of a different race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religious or spiritual identity, gender identity/expression, socioeconomic class, or other identity different than their own. Find more information and a schedule of events on the SLMCC website .
During this week, on Nov. 13, UITL will co-sponsor a workshop called Supporting...
ACRL Publishing has just released a new collection co-edited by Craig Gibson, University Institute for Teaching and Learning Faculty Fellow, and Sharon Mader, Dean Emerita of Libraries at the University of New Orleans, and formerly Visiting Program Office for Information Literacy at ACRL. The volume, entitled Building Teaching and Learning Communities: Creating Shared Meaning and Purpose, brings together perspectives on higher education pedagogy from some of the leading names in educational development in North America.
Chapters by Pat Hutchings, Mary Deane Sorcinelli, Nancy Chick, Joan Middendorf, Linda Hodges, Peter Felten, and Kateryna Schray illuminate a wide range of teaching-related...
The University Institute for Teaching and Learning is pleased to be hosting Hendrik den Ouden, deputy head of the Centre for Advanced Teaching and Learning at the University of Cologne (UoC) for a visit this month. Den Ouden, who is also a tenured senior lecturer, will present two workshops in mid-October during his time at Ohio State. The workshops are open to the OSU community and include:
The Challenge of University Teaching , Monday, Oct. 14, from 2:30 to 4 p.m., 150 Thompson Library Teaching at a university can be inspiring, dynamic, exciting and sometimes...
The University Institute for Teaching and Learning joined academic leaders on the University Innovation Alliance team attending the UIA’s Proactive Advising Public Learning Event held in Washington, DC, Sept. 19 and 20.
Melinda Rhodes-DiSalvo, UITL associate director for Strategic Partnerships and Collaborations, joined David Graham, assistant vice provost for Student Academic Success; Tiffany Polite, UIA fellow; Dawn Kitchen, associate dean at Mansfield and professor of anthropology; and Daniel DeMay, assistant director, analysis and reporting, Student Academic Services.
The Ohio State University is a member of UIA, a national coalition of public research universities committed to increasing number and...
