Teaching at Otterbein University

Otterbein faculty are encouraged to nominate their peers for several annual teaching recognition awards at Otterbein.  Full time faculty can be nominated for the Teacher of the Year, New Teacher of the Year and Exemplary Teacher award.  Part Time faculty are recognized annually for teaching in their discipline or within an interdisciplinary or general education area.

A Teaching Award recipient exhibits the following skills: mastery of the subject matter in his or her discipline or in interdisciplinary teaching, highly effective organization and communication of material, a spirit of enthusiasm which enriches the instructor’s own teaching and learning, the ability to arouse the curiosity of beginning students and to stimulate advanced students to creative work, and the ability to interact with students beyond the classroom through activities that integrate and expand the learning environment.

The CTL Studio is a learning environment designed for creativity, innovation, and collaboration. Designed using an open café concept with dedicated WiFi access to facilitate individual consultations as well as group sessions, it has flexible seating, whiteboards, reading materials, and other analog or digital tools, including a 55-inch flat screen TV to our multimedia workstations (Windows and Mac).

Faculty and departments can book time at the studio to work on their projects independently or in consultation with CTL staff.

• Come and explore innovative technologies like virtual and augmented reality.
• Learn how to integrate Brightspace in your courses or how to use applications like Impatica, Respondus, or Turning Point to enhance your in-class activities.
• Take advantage of our professional audio, video, and content authoring tools to work on your media-related projects. Available programs include Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Express, and Camtasia Studio as well as graphic design or Web development software like Dreamweaver, InDesign, and Photoshop, among many others.