Teaching at UO
What is Teaching Excellence?
Teaching at the University of Oregon is Professional, Inclusive, Engaged, and Research-informed.
The University of Oregon is committed to exceptional teaching, discovery, and service. Achieving excellence in teaching means first defining it to reflect the best of what…
Teaching Toolkits
Faculty efforts to promote student success can have a huge impact, not just in individual classes but across students’ experiences at UO. Faculty can promote student success through (1) deliberate course design and teaching practices and (2) by guiding students’ development of knowledge and…
Teaching at UO
The University of Oregon has updated winter 2022 instructional policies in response to COVID conditions. Instructors may move courses with 20 percent or more Covid-related student absences to synchronous online instruction for a limited period of time in consultation with their unit heads and deans…
Teaching and Learning Topics
2020 witnessed some of the most passionate protests for racial justice seen in the US and globally since the Civil Rights movements, awakening a new consciousness of the depths of structural anti-Black and racist violence. In the past year we also collectively bore witness to an unfathomable number…
Teaching and Learning Topics
The University of Oregon’s Academic Council states that, for fall 2021, “Instructors should ensure that absent students have equitable access to course content” and “clear communication and make-up protocols in place for students to follow if students are going to be or have been absent.” What…
Teaching and Learning Topics
To engage students in remote learning, many instructors adopted new strategies or innovated existing practices in creative ways. As we transition forward to in-person classrooms again, we can bring many remote teaching strategies along with us, providing us a bevy of dynamic options for…
Teaching and Learning Topics
The past year has been a painful one marked by the continuation of racialized violence perpetuated against Black people and other people of color. For many, the trial of ex-police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd resurfaces deep grief, anger, and pain, and the recent killing of…
Teaching and Learning Topics
Faculty have used four main assessment strategies to strengthen academic integrity, regardless of teaching modality:
Scaffolding assignments is a key way to both enhance learning and deter academic misconduct. Because scaffolding provides a number of touchpoints before submitting for summative…
Teaching and Learning Topics
The communication practices below have been instrumental for many faculty and graduate student instructors in supporting greater academic integrity in their classes.
Reflect on what we believe about students and why they engage in academic misconduct, as our beliefs influence the tone and…
Teaching and Learning Topics
All incoming first year and transfer students going through the IntroDUCKtion Student Orientation now complete a Canvas module called Ducks Have Academic Integrity. We asked students completing the module in fall 2021 if they would give us permission to share some of their responses to two…
