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Updated on September 11, 2025As an educator, you strive to design courses that provide all students opportunities to engage, learn, and succeed. Central to this mission is ensuring your course materials are accessible to all learners. Getting started with digital accessibility can feel overwhelming, but committing to it is as important as ever.As announced by the ADA Digital Accessibility Center,...

All who teach at Ohio State are invited to join the Drake Institute this December for an in-person Immersive Active Learning Workshop. During three four-hour sessions, you’ll hear about common active learning strategies, experience what it’s like to be a student in an active learning environment, explore using technology for active learning, and practice techniques with other instructors. Get a s...

The Office of Academic Affairs and the Drake Institute for Teaching and Learning are excited to announce a new professional development incentive for completing the Teaching and Learning to Build AI Fluency teaching endorsement. This recently launched endorsement is designed to support Ohio State educators and programs to align instruction and curriculum to the AI Fl...

Most instructors are accustomed to surveying students at the end of the semester, in order to gain helpful insight to improve their course for future terms. Midterm, on the other hand, is an optimal time to collect feedback you can use to improve the learning experience for your current students. Collecting mid-course feedback presents opportunities to discuss what’s working for students (and wha...

Updated on September 11. 2025 Since the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, many educators have wondered how to best respond to and integrate generative artificial intelligence (AI) in their teaching. The rapid proliferation and wide adoption of generative AI tools has made it increasingly clear that it is imperative to prepare our students to understand and thoughtfully employ them, in their a...

The Drake Institute for Teaching and Learning invites new faculty to participate in the upcoming cohort of the New Faculty Foundation, Impact, Transformation (FIT) Mentoring Program – a signature program designed to support early teaching success and foster community at Ohio State. Since its launch in 2016, FIT has helped new faculty build strong foundations in teaching through meaningful co...

Updated on September 11. 2025Participating in a learning community is a great way to further your professional development, deepen your knowledge of teaching or research practices, and make meaningful connections with colleagues who share your interests. A learning community is a small, cross-disciplinary group of educators who meet regularly over the course of a semester or ...

Google Public Sector 2025 Data and AI DayThursday, August 211:30 – 6:30 p.m.Ohio StadiumIn support of The Ohio State University's recently announced AI Fluency initiative, university leaders are partnering with Google to host an event dedicated to advancing the role and impact of AI in higher education. Designed for educators, researchers, and AI enthusiasts, Google Public Sector's Data and AI Da...

Are you a graduate student preparing to teach this fall or an Ohio State educator who supports GTAs? Don't miss out—registration is now open for the 2025 Graduate Teaching Orientation.GTO is designed to meet the needs of any graduate student instructor at the university, whether they teach independently or as a lab instructor, recitation leader, or grader. It is especially beneficial for th...

In Creating Wicked Students: Designing Courses for a Complex World, Paul Hanstedt outlines strategies educators can use to redesign courses and assignments that help their students develop "wicked" competencies. Wicked students have a sense of authority and believe they are capable of addressing wicked problems, or problems that are messy, evolving, and have no clear solutions. Such problems...