From August 2024 to June 2025, CTLA provided 42 open sessions and customized presentations or trainings attended by 339 unique faculty.
Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment
Advancing Teaching Excellence
Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment
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.
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.
Current CTLA Topics
AI and Teaching and Learning
In 2024-25, the CTLA awarded its first set of GenAI in Teaching and Learning faculty development certifications. The center also 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:
- Reflect and Design for AI in Higher Education: Faculty will critically reflect on their beliefs regarding AI in academia and craft a syllabus statement that aligns with their pedagogical values, clearly articulating expectations for ethical AI use to support student learning and integrity.
- Integrate AI to Enhance Teaching and Learning: Faculty will identify and implement at least one AI-driven tool or strategy in their own course to improve student outcomes or enhance their own teaching capacity, evaluating its impact on engagement, accessibility, or learning efficiency.
The course itself is open to any faculty, staff, and administrator interested in reviewing the resources.
Experiential Learning Certification
Experiential learning is a cornerstone of ĢƵ University’s educational philosophy, fostering transformative, hands-on experiences that prepare students to apply their knowledge to real-world challenges. This certification program empowers educators to design, implement and assess experiential learning opportunities that align with ĢƵ University's values and strategic goals.
The Teaching and Assessing Experiential Learning Certification comprises four components:
- Knowledge Acquisition – a set of asynchronous learning modules delivered through Canvas.
- Implementation – application of learning in new, redesigned, or existing courses.
- Assessment – formal evaluation of course design and delivery.
- Reflection – instructors’ self-report on implementation effectiveness and next steps.
Faculty will be eligible for the first $500 of their stipend after completing the first two components and for the second $500 after completing the final two components.
This teaching certification is designed as a self-paced, open-entry, open-exit offering.
CTLA at a Glance in 2024-25
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Workshops and Sessions
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Teaching Certifications
Designed, developed, and delivered four Teaching@OHIO faculty development certifications impacting 500+ courses and over 9,000 students.
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Investment in Faculty
Affirmed CTLA commitment to programming “by faculty, for faculty, to benefit faculty” and stewardship of resources through provision of stipends to faculty fellows, for program deliverables, and for completion of extended professional development opportunities.
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Academies
Eight faculty completed the year-long Bruning Academy, and 11 completed the IPA. In collaboration with Graduate College delivered the GSI Teaching Academy. 2024-25 saw a 37% increase in admitted participants and a 50% increase in completion rate over the previous year.
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Consultations available
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.