Department Support for Teaching & Learning

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Connect Your Department with OAI

OAI Liaison for Your Department

OAI offers a dedicated liaison service to each department to help field teaching and learning questions and proactively provide information, updates, and opportunities that you could pass on to your faculty as you see fit.

Connect with a Liaison

Book OAI for short 15-minute info sessions at your next department meeting

We’ll bring new teaching tips and resources on a topic of your choosing, and get to know your department’s support needs. We can customize the length of time to your needs: sessions can run as short as 15 minutes, or offer a more in-depth exploration of a topic in a 45 minute session.

Schedule A Department Workshop

Current Info Sessions:

Introduction to Teaching Support & Resources at PSU

Get to know your teaching and learning resources at PSU. This session will offer your department an overview of all faculty support, teaching workshops and professional development opportunities, and get to know your department’s specific teaching interests and needs.

How to Make the Most of Your Virtual Class Sessions

This brief introduction will share concrete ideas in one area of virtual teaching and learning. Select from virtual classroom ideas, asynchronous engagement strategies, remote assessment activities, or request a specific area of need for your department.

Using Multimedia in Your Courses

Get a crash course in why we love using multimedia to teach and the resources available at PSU.

Creating Inclusive Courses with Proactive Accessibility & Universal Design

This session offers a short introduction to inclusive pedagogy and student-centered course design. Universal design for learning can be applied to the syllabus (E.g assignments, assessment, lecture and textbook selection). As well as the classroom culture and physical environment (E.g technology, student interaction, professor interaction).

Sustainable Program Assessment Planning

Get started with or revise your program-level assessment planning. This information session will provide you with a clear outline of the components of the program assessment process. You’ll know of resources that can support you as you create or revise your program’s assessment planning, and you’ll be ready to launch the next steps in a sustainable, doable assessment cycle for your program.

Introduction to Community-Engaged Learning

Are students making connections between your courses and their off-campus lives? How does your curriculum integrate knowledge and experiences from the current social justice movement? Community-Engaged Learning (CEL) is a high-impact educational practice your department can utilize to deepen student learning while forwarding PSU’s mission. This session will offer a brief overview of CEL as it relates to your discipline.

Teaching Digitally at PSU

Many faculty want to incorporate technology into their course but are uncertain how to begin. This session is a brief overview of the digital learning tools available at PSU for teaching and learning, some best practices in incorporating technology and multimedia in your course, and an overview of the support services that OAI provides faculty.

Equity & Inclusion in the Classroom

This brief introduction to equity and inclusion in the classroom will provide you with useful definitions of "diversity," "equity," and "inclusion" as well as three practical tips for incorporating inclusive practices into your syllabus, assignments, and course activities.

Designing Student-to-Student Interactions

Explore creative ideas for student group work, peer review, and discussion forums. We’ll briefly introduce resources on creating interesting and novel group assignments and forums that increase student engagement and learning, and discussing the impact of group and peer-to-peer interaction on student engagement in a course.

Open Educational Practices as Teaching and Learning Tools

A brief introduction to Open Educational Resources, Open Pedagogy, and the Open Education Initiative at Portland State University. We’ll discuss where to find OERs, what Open Pedagogy looks like, and how you can learn to incorporate Open Pedagogy strategies into courses.

Let's Make a Deal!: The Negotiated Syllabus

How can students contribute to the shape and structure of a course by co-creating parts of the syllabus? Explore the value and impact of students' participation in syllabus creation, and identify one or more sections of your syllabus that can be created with student input.

Develop or Refresh a PSU Program

Work with OAI teaching and learning staff to refresh or design a program or sequence of courses in your department.

Request a program consultation