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Click on any of the links below to visit some of the excellent teaching and learning resources other postsecondary institutions in the US and Canada offer on their websites.  The headers for each section should help you navigate these resources.  Feel free to suggest others that you discover!

General Teaching Development

Orientation to College Teaching is a series of modules designed to provide information, instruction and support to faculty and teaching staff at the university level who wish to enhance their teaching and support their students' learning. They were developed at San Francisco State University with grant support from the Fund for the Improvement of Post-secondary Education (FIPSE), U.S. Department of Education*, and the Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Award Program (IRACDA), from the Minority Opportunities in Research (MORE) Division of the National Institute of Health.

Established in the late 1960s, the IDEA Center at Kansas State University is a not for profit organization whose mission is serving colleges and universities by providing products and services to assess and improve teaching, learning, and administrator performance. The IDEA website offers links to a variety of resources related to aspects of college teaching.

A Berkeley Compendium of Suggestions for Teaching with Excellence is the web-based version of Tools for Teaching (Jossey-Bass, 1993). Easily searchable, it provides very specific ideas for addressing a lot of the challenges associated with college teaching.

Writing to learn

Writing for Learning is an essay by Peter Elbow on the National Teaching and Learning Forum website. Elbow is one of the pioneers in the concept of writing to learn.

What is Writing to Learn? is the website for the Colorado State University Writing Across the Curriculum website.

The Complexities of Responding to Student Writing offers some guidance on a challenge we all face in giving feedback on student written work.

Don't forget to visit USM's Writing Across the Curriculum website, as well.

Working with student teams

A group of University of Oklahoma faculty members have developed a particular model of Team-Based Learning that is described in some detail on this set of web pages.

Faculty at the University of Oregon have developed a series of web pages as a resource for the use of Student Learning Teams in undergraduate research.

Active learning

Honolulu Community College has posted a paper on Active Learning by L. Dee Fink of the University of Oklahoma that provides a nice summary of the concept and several examples of its application to college teaching.

Active Learning: Creating Excitement in the Classroom is another article from the National Teaching and Learning Forum archives.

The University of Minnesota Center for Teaching and Learning Services offers this web-based tutorial on Active Learning with Powerpoint.

Plagiarism

One of the best web-based resources on Avoiding Plagiarism ---albeit one aimed primarily at students---is this one maintained by the On-Line Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University.

Another useful site is Plagiarism: What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It on the Writing Tutorial Services website at Indiana University-Bloomington.

Working with large classes

The Center for Teaching Excellence at the University of Maryland provides a useful site focused on Teaching Large Classes.

This site at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, offers links to many other resources on the challenges of teaching large classes.

Learning assessment

The University of Washington has developed extensive on-line resources related to the development and implementation of Student Learning Outcomes.

Jon Mueller, Professor of Psychology at North Central College in Naperville, IL, has created a very handy Toolbox for Authentic Assessment.

Distance education

This site, maintained by the University of Wisconsin Extension, links to a variety of Distance Education Resources particularly relevant to higher education.

The National Education Association also maintains a website featuring information about Distance Education Resources.

Technology-assisted education and learning

Academic Commons publishes essays, reviews, interviews, showcases of innovative uses of technology, and vignettes that critically examine technology uses in the classroom.

Michael Hall, a faculty member at the University of Maryland, College Park, has assembled a variety of links to web-based resources on Teaching with Electronic Technology.

This page last updated 06/27/2007

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