LibGuides: An Overview of CTL Resources: LibGuide directory

An Overview of CTL Resources

The CTL has partnered with the Otterbein Library to create library guides (libguides) for online resources to support your teaching. Below are our current libguides organized by Blackboard Resources, Classroom Instruction, Emerging Technologies, Teaching our Students, and Scholarship, Service and Teaching. Others are being developed.

Classroom Instruction

Writing a Syllabus
Resources for writing, designing a syllabus for your courses.
The First Day of Class
The first day of class is critical for setting expectations, building community, and getting to know each other and the course. This LibGuide is designed to provide ideas for making the most of it, and avoid the missed opportunity of a "syllabus day."
Get the Most out of Student Feedback
Collecting feedback from your students mid-semester and at the end of the term resources.

Teaching our Students

Collaborative Learning in the College Classroom
Online resources for collaborative learning in the classroom.
Design and Teach Travel Learning Courses
This LibGuide provides an introduction to the development of travel learning experiences of different kinds.
Inclusive Teaching
Resources for inclusive teaching in your classes and with your students.
English Language Learners in U.S. College Classrooms
This guide provides an overview of the knowledge and skills that English Language Learners bring with them into the college classroom and the issues that they face based on cultural or linguistic differences between their home culture and that of U.S. universities.
Interdisciplinary Teaching
Resources for Interdisciplinary Teaching at Otterbein.
Project-Based Learning Resources
Project-Based Learning

Blackboard Resources at Otterbein

Blackboard Collaborate Ultra: Virtual Classrooms and Meeting Spaces
Collaborate Ultra is the newest version of Blackboard's Virtual Classrooms platform, formerly known only as Blackboard Collaborate.
Online Assessment with the Blackboard Grade Center
This LibGuide provides an overview of the most-used basic and advanced features in the Blackboard Grade Center. It also includes links to instructions for Grade Center configuration and use.
Design Course Content in Blackboard
This guide provides an overview of the various forms of content that can be created in a Blackboard course. This information is intended to help faculty get started with the course-building process.

Emerging and Innovative Technologies for Instructors

Digital Video for Teaching and Learning
A guide for faculty interested in digital video in its various forms. Examples include digital storytelling student assignments, instructional videos, lecture capture, and/or video-based research projects.
Emerging Media and Learning Technology in Higher Education
An overview of different tools and trends in emerging media and learning technologies as related to teaching and learning in higher education.
ePortfolios with Digication at Otterbein
This LibGuide is intended as an introduction to ePortfolio for both faculty and students.
Interdisciplinary Teaching
Interdisciplinary Teaching Resources