Teaching Topics
Browse our growing repository of teaching topics to learn more about best practices for planning your courses, choosing teaching strategies, supporting your students and more.
Planning Your Course
Investigate key considerations for course planning, including the basics of course and assessment design, online course quality, academic integrity, and more.
Learn how to take a proactive, rather than punitive, approach to academic integrity in your courses.
Online labs can be an effective method to teach critical thinking and research skills in STEM disciplines.
Explore strategies for creating or adapting effective assignments for online courses.
Explore best practices for planning thoughtful and effective assessments of student learning.
These guiding questions and considerations will help you design meaningful research assignments.
Become familiar with Ohio State's new GE structure, course submission processes, and available support resources.
Learn how state, federal, and university policies can help orient your teaching, particularly for online and hybrid courses.
Whether you're new to teaching or an experienced instructor, this guide can help you prep your course for next semester.
Learn how to take a multifaceted approach to academic integrity in your online courses.
This resources outline key practices for building and teaching an effective online course.
Explore supported and vetted learning technologies available at Ohio State, their benefits, and resources for selecting technology for your course.
Understand how Universal Design for Learning (UDL) can improve the learning experience for all of your students.
This step-by-step guide to backward design will help you plan your next course around what matters most—student learning.
Creating Course Material
Use available tools and resources to build your course content and create a student-friendly learning environment.
Understand Creative Commons licenses and how you can use them to access materials and openly license your own work.
Creating effective and engaging instructional videos is easy with the right tools and strategies.
Learn how to apply Carmen Common Sense, ten student-authored suggestions for a student-friendly CarmenCanvas course.
Navigate complex copyright issues with these best practices for in-person and online classes.
Understand what OERs are, how they benefit you and students, and how to evaluate and select OERs for your course.
Download and customize a syllabus template for your online or hybrid course.
Choosing Teaching Strategies
Explore strategies and best practices for delivering effective and engaging instruction, both in-person and online.
Understand the benefits and limitations of generative AI and explore a range of ways to address and integrate AI tools in your course.
Explore strategies, conversation starters, and activities that will help you openly discuss AI with your students.
Learn how a transparent design process can simplify planning assignments that use generative artificial intelligence.
Learn how course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) promote learning, build community, foster students’ identity as scholars, and shape their professional futures.
Understand the benefits of service-learning and best practices for planning a service-learning course.
Learn how to incorporate ePortfolios and reflective practice in your course and how this can benefit your students.
Learn strategies for planning and facilitating meaningful class discussions in face-to-face and online contexts.
Learn about high-impact practices (HIPs), how they benefit students, and key elements to consider when integrating HIPs into your courses.
Learn why peer review is beneficial and how to design a successful peer review activity.
Explore approaches to leveraging Ohio State technology tools to engage students and support digital literacy.
Explore strategies to keep teaching during emergencies or temporary interruptions to traditional instruction.
Learn how to be there for your online students, including strategies for communication, support, and feedback.
Explore best practices for fostering meaningful student-student interaction in your online course.
Learn how to address common challenges and engage your students when teaching in-person and online courses over 100 students.
Supporting Your Students
Foster a welcoming and inclusive classroom community and provide the resources and support your students need to succeed.
Foster student participation in synchronous class meetings with these strategies for creating inclusive CarmenZoom spaces.
Explore strategies to support students as they learn to write across different disciplines.
Understand why diversity matters and why you should create learning spaces that include and support all students.
Learn core information literacy concepts and explore teaching strategies to incorporate them into your courses.
Turn challenging moments and tension into generative learning opportunities by adopting strategies to mitigate and address classroom conflicts.
Learn how to foster a learning environment that is welcoming, inclusive, and supportive of all students.
Learn how to intentionally support your students, and why this is especially important in online courses.
Learn how content and trigger warnings can help you foster a more supportive and inclusive learning environment.
Growing as an Educator
Manage the daily work of teaching and develop professional skills through documentation, evaluation, and reflection.
Understand how soliciting formative student feedback, in addition to summative, can help you adapt your teaching, improve your course, and better support your students.
Learn how to evaluate teaching in online courses and download an example peer review rubric.