The Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment (CTLA) advances teaching and learning excellence at OHIO by providing University-wide resources and championing scholarly teaching that is student-centered, evidence-based, innovative and inclusive.
Newly expanded and relaunched in the fall 2022 semester, the CTLA serves instructors, departments, programs and colleges across the University. The CTLA's programming brings OHIO community members together to share ideas and expertise, implement evidence-based instructional strategies in various learning contexts and assess the effectiveness of teaching practices.
The CTLA's initiatives align with strategies and actions identified in the President's Dynamic Strategy by transforming the student learning experience through high-impact practices to best support intellectual growth and skill acquisition and promote learner development as individuals and engaged citizens.
On March 3, the CTLA launched an asynchronous AI in Teaching and Learning Institute. This modular course introduces instructors to strategies and pathways for leveraging generative artificial intelligence in courses and in day-to-day administrative tasks.
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
The course itself is open to any faculty, staff, and administrator interested in reviewing the resources.
CTLA provided 38 workshops, sessions, and group consultations on evidence-based instructional strategies, teaching with technology, course and instructional design and inclusive pedagogy. 336 faculty, staff and graduate student instructors participated.
Over 40 faculty explored GenAI in Higher Education Teaching and Learning and Promoting Teaching Excellence on Regional Campuses. They included faculty representing 19 departments, 8 colleges and 6 campuses.
The CTLA provided over $60,000 in stipends to faculty for contributions to pedagogical development of peers or participation in extended professional development.
The CTLA contributed extensively to a proposal to the Konneker Fund for Learning and Discovery titled
鈥淕enerative AI-enhanced student support at scale to improve student learning.鈥 The grant was recommended for full funding and will make possible an on-demand version of its AI-enhanced Course Redesign Institute.
Faculty seeking consultations on evidence-based instructional strategies, pedagogical practices and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning projects are invited to contact staff or visit our offices in McGuffey Hall, first floor.
Consultations can be on an individual, team, department or unit level, and the center is able to design workshops and sessions to meet the development goals of specific groups of faculty, departments or colleges.
