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March 15, 2024

Are you, or do you know, a graduate student who is teaching for the first time next fall?

Each year in August, 400-600 Graduate Teaching Associates (GTAs) across Ohio State attend Graduate Teaching Orientation. While some of these GTAs teach courses, others teach as lab or studio instructors, recitation leaders, or graders.

In past years, participants have shared that orientation eased their concerns about teaching for the first time, helped them feel part of Ohio State’s community of GTAs, and gave them valuable teaching strategies that they could immediately implement in their new roles....

March 15, 2024

The Drake Institute looks forward to partnering with the Academy of Teaching to host The Academy of Teaching 2024 Spring Conference on Tuesday, May 7, 2024, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Blackwell Inn.

This year’s theme is “Celebrating Creativity in the Classroom.” From designing entire courses and individual assignments to delivering content and assessing student work, teaching is inherently creative. Likewise, student learning is the embodiment of creative activity, seen in the wide range of thinking, actions, and products students generate during a given term. More than simply a strategy for staving off classroom...

March 15, 2024

As the influence of Generative AI on higher education and society grows, it is important for instructors to discuss its uses and limitations in their courses. A new Teaching and Learning Resource Center (TLRC) post, AI Teaching Strategies: Having Conversations with Students , offers suggestions for having productive conversations about AI with students. This guide provides helpful information regarding current AI-related concerns such as copyright, privacy and security. This post provides a variety of practical strategies for discussing AI, conversation starters, and class activities. Check out this valuable post as you plan to discuss AI with your students....

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Photo of Elizabeth Vu
Director of Distance Education/Senior Lecturer
College of Arts and Sciences/Department of Comparative Studies

Elizabeth Vu has had a relationship with the Drake Institute and its predecessors at Ohio State for some time, most recently piloting an IR on-demand short course for active learning in large lectures as well as the first instance of the UCAT-ODEE joint fully remote course for online course design. She was the recipient of a grant from the Institute in 2018 which supported the launch of the...Learn more