Resources for Teaching and Learning

Active Learning Techniques: many suggested class activities

Creating Significant Student Learning Experiences: Students will always learn something, but good teachers want their students to learn something important or significant, rather than something relatively insignificant. This leads to a question that is key to the whole teaching enterprise: What are the ways in which learning can be significant?

MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching): peer-reviewed learning objects for free use in courses across the disciplines

Tomorrow's Professor: Desk-top faculty development

Online Resources: many links on topics ranging from Academic Integrity to Writing Learning Objectives

POD: Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

Department Chair Online Resource Center Visible Knowledge Project: VKP aims to improve the quality of college and university teaching by focusing on both student learning and faculty development in technology-enhanced environments

IDEA (Individual Development & Educational Assessment) papers: supporting the assessment and improvement of teaching, learning, and administrative performance

Teaching Goals Inventory: based upon Angelo & Cross's Classroom Assessment Techniques, the Inventory is a self-assessment of instructional goals.

Teaching Tips Index: (Honolulu CC)

Teaching Resources: (Vanderbillt)

Teaching & Learning: (Central Florida)

Teaching With Electronic Technology: sites collected on this page reflect the considerable variety of uses for computing and related forms of electronic technology in teaching.

Syllabus Tutorial: (Minnesota)

World Lecture Hall: syllabi from many courses, disciplines and schools

Theories About Learning: summaries of 12 theories about how people learn

How People Learn: a report from the National Research Council