Center for Teaching,
Learning and Assessment
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Teaching award winners, finalists share practices
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University teaching award winners were announced at the 2026 Faculty Recognition and Awards Ceremony event held Wednesday, March 25, in the Baker University Center Ballroom. The ceremony annually recognizes faculty accomplishments in the areas of teaching, research, community engagement, news-making and student success support.
The CTLA, in collaboration with the Office of Information Technology, offers those attending the ceremony a glimpse into the classrooms and practices of finalists and award winners.
This newsletter shares videos of Rising Star Teacher, Provost Award for Excellence in Teaching and Presidential Teacher finalists and winners. All three awards recognize excellence in teaching and academic pursuits in and out of the classroom. The Rising Star Teacher Award acknowledges tenure-track faculty early in their careers at OHIO. Full-time instructional faculty are eligible for the PAET award, and the Presidential Teacher is awarded to a tenured faculty member.
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Presidential Teacher Finalist
Adonis Durado, associate professor, Scripps College of Communication
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Mary Kate Hurley, associate professor, College of Arts and Sciences
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Saumya Pant, associate professor, Scripps College of Communication
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PAET Finalist
Paul Benedict, associate professor of instruction, College of Business
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Tamanna Shah, assistant professor of instruction, College of Arts and Sciences
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Thom Stevenson, associate professor of instruction, Patton College of Education
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Rising Star Teacher Finalist
Rachel Bican, assistant professor of instruction, College of Health Sciences and Professions
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Rising Star Teacher Award Winner
Rebekah Crawford, assistant professor of instruction, College of Health Sciences and Professions
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| Microsoft retiring OneDrive in Canvas; tool replacement available this summer |
Microsoft is retiring the legacy OneDrive tool in Canvas as of September and transitioning to Microsoft Education -- which will become the only way to access OneDrive and other Microsoft tools in Canvas -- beginning in Fall Semester 2026.
Instructors creating new OneDrive content in Canvas for summer courses must use Microsoft Education. To support the transition to the new tool, the ability to create new content in the legacy OneDrive integration will be disabled on May 5. All existing content in the legacy tool will continue to function as expected through the summer; the only change is that new content cannot be created using the old tool during that time.
The Office of Information Technology recommends all instructors who previously created content with the legacy OneDrive tool in Canvas review and update their course materials to use Microsoft Education before the fall semester to avoid broken links. Microsoft recently launched a migration tool that can support this transition and automatically update many existing links.
GETTING STARTED
1. Access the OneDrive Migration Tool link on any Canvas course home page or on the course settings page.
2. Click on the OneDrive Migration Tool to identify links that can be moved from the “old” OneDrive integration to the Microsoft Education application within your course (the first time you do this, you will be asked to “authorize” the tool). You will have the option to individually or bulk select items to migrate to Microsoft Education.
Any Canvas OneDrive content that is not moved to Microsoft Education will need to be manually re‑linked after the legacy integration is retired. Your files created with the old integration will not be deleted. Legacy OneDrive files will be retained in your personal, course, or shared OneDrive or SharePoint, depending on the type of content.
For additional information, access Using the Microsoft Education Integration in Canvas.
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Space still open in summer book groups featuring kickoff speaker
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Two cohort book groups scheduled this summer by the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment set the stage for a visit from Michelle D. Miller, professor of psychological sciences at Northern Arizona University and an internationally recognized expert on attention, memory, technology and college teaching.
Remembering and Forgetting in the Age of Technology takes a deep dive into how memory works—and what that means for how we teach. In an era of instant information and generative AI, how can technology help as well as hinder our ability to remember? Drawing on both classic research and current findings, this book offers practical strategies for helping students build meaningful, lasting knowledge while navigating a digital world.
The first cohort will meet May 21, May 28 and June 4, and the second cohort on July 21, 28 and Aug. 4. The first 10 participants for each cohort will receive a hard copy of the book, which is also available in digital form through Ohio University Libraries. There will be an optional opportunity for faculty to earn a small stipend ($250) for sharing instructional materials for colleagues to adopt and adapt.
Miller will be a featured presenter at CTLA’s annual 2026 fall semester kickoff event. All are invited to SAVE THE DATE for the kickoff, which is scheduled for Friday, Sept. 4. Miller is also the author of A Teacher's Guide to Learning Student Names and Minds Online.
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Session offered on Concourse syllabus |
An upcoming session offered by the Office of Instructional Design trains faculty on how to use the Concourse Syllabus Tool in Canvas to create the required public syllabus components for undergraduate courses in compliance with Ohio Revised Code §3345.029. The session will walk instructors through entering required content fields within Concourse to populate the public syllabus website. The session is offered via Teams.
REGISTER for the 1 to 2:30 p.m., Wednesday, May 6, session.
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