Members of the Remote Teaching Peer Support team hail from across the CLA disciplines and teach a full range of online courses including intro-level surveys, WIC classes, graduate courses, and Honors colloquia. The team specializes in online course and assignment design and the effective use of online learning tools.
 
The team aims to:
  • Help faculty re-conceptualize their face-to-face classes to achieve learning outcomes in a remote, fully online, and hybrid environments.
  • Support course design and the creation of online activities and assignments.
  • Offer advice about the use of online learning tools for course instruction.
  • Connect teaching faculty with the appropriate university support for complex or technical questions.

Live help

Live help sessions will be available during winter break and during weeks one and two of the spring 2021 quarter.

  • Spring quarter: Weeks 1 & 2 from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
     

Click here to join a live help session
 

Individual Consultations

Drop-in hours

Our team members offer drop-in hours from weeks 3-10 during spring quarter:

  • Benita Blessing: Drop-in hours: Mondays 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Come chat with Benita about inclusive teaching and safer learning spaces, and to learn tips and tricks for using technologies in asynchronous and synchronous teaching.
     
  • Liddy Detar: Drop-in Hour: Tuesdays from 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. Drop in to ask questions and/or share conversations about remote teaching needs, supporting struggling students, and staying nimble with the ever-shifting ground of asynchronous/synchronous and remote/hybrid/in-person modalities.
     
  • Katherine Hubler: Drop-in Hour: Wednesdays from 11:00 a.m. - noon. Stop by with your remote teaching questions, or engage in conversations about connecting with your students in the remote environment.
     
  • Gilad Elbom: ([email protected]). Send a message, long or short, with questions about class design, remote pedagogies or the current state and future of disembodied learning. Gilad is happy to meet on Zoom anytime, day or night. 

One-on-one consultation

The CLA Remote Teaching Team is also available for pre-scheduled one-on-one consultations throughout the term. To schedule a consultation please email [email protected]

Schedule a consultation 

At your pre-scheduled appointment, all users will first enter a waiting room. Please stay connected; approval from the host to enter the room may take a few seconds. If you find yourself waiting several minutes, the support team member is likely assisting another faculty member. You may elect to wait until they are available or email the team at [email protected].

Click here to join your consultation session

 

Friday Remote Teaching Forums

Hosted on Fridays at 10am, weeks 2 through 9.  Faculty and GTAs are invited to join the remote teaching team for a series of one-hour workshops and conversations geared toward cultivating and sharing successful pedagogical strategies, fostering inclusive learning spaces and supporting students in remote and multi-modality environments. 

  • Week 2 - April 9th at 10 a.m.: Strategies for Student Success
  • Week 3 - April 16th at 10 a.m.: Perspectives from the 'Other Side' of the Zoom Classroom: A Student & Faculty Roundtable 
  • Week 4 - April 23rd at 10 a.m.: Creating Inclusive Communities
  • Week 5 - April 30th at 10 a.m.: Community Challenges in the Remote Classroom
  • Week 6 - May 7th at 10 a.m.: Future Visions for Faculty Success I
  • Week 7 - May 14th at 10 a.m.: Student Reflections on Effective Remote Teaching & Lessons for Future Terms: A Student Panel Discussion
  • Week 8 - May 21st at 10 a.m.: Future Visions of Faculty Success II
  • Week 9 - May 28th at 10 a.m.: Stories to Celebrate

Join a Friday Remote Teaching Forum

Via Email

The Remote Teaching Peer Support term will continue to respond to questions via email throughout 2020-2021 academic year.

Email the support team


CLA Remote Teaching Workshops

Even if you have already taught a remote course during a previous term, we highly recommend checking out the CLA Remote and Blended Course Design and Teaching Workshop that OSU’s Keep Teaching team hosted for our CLA faculty in August 2020.  

The Canvas site that accompanies the workshop includes training modules and resources that allow you to benefit from the workshop asynchronously. 

A recording of the August 2020 session and shared notes from the faculty participants can also be accessed here.
 

About the Support Team

Learn more about the support team members from across the College of Liberal Arts and the Honors College. 
 

Additional Resources 

Keep Teaching from [email protected] provides a number of high quality resources available 24/7 to assist with many of your remote teaching and working questions.