Web Sites Related to Teaching and Learning

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Please enjoy a little Beethoven while you browse, Daniel Barenboim at the keyboard.

Listed below is a somewhat eclectic collection of web sites related to teaching and learning. To request additional links or removal of links, please contact: the Center. 

Learning to write

• Grammar Exercises Using Associated Press Style:  Newsroom 101.com
  

Assessment of Learning

• Constructive Alignment
• Classroom Assessment Techniques
• Classroom Assessment Techniques Examples

Technology and Teaching

• Introduction to Hybrid Courses
• Teaching with Technology.  Using the Legacy Cycle
  
• Goal-Based Scenarios
• The SASK Mentor Project: 
• Links to the Debate over "What's the Difference"  A Review of Contemporary Research on the Effectiveness of Distance Learning in Higher Education, published in April 1999 by The Institute for Higher Education Policy
• Using Technology to Promote Learning
• Links About Technology and Teaching

Academic Integrity

• The Center for Academic Integrity:  Fundamental Values Project
• Ten Principles of Academic Integrity
• Academic Integrity at Princeton University
• Perspectives on Why Students Violate Academic Integrity
  

Linking Research and Teaching

• Linking Research and Teaching in Departments Alan Jenkins, Roger Zetter, Oxford Brookes University
• Effective Teaching Practices that Promote the Link
• Selected References on  Teaching/Research Relationships

How Humans Learn

• How People Learn:  Brain, Mind, Experience, School, Bransford, Brown, and Cocking, National Science Foundation
• Learning Styles, A page of resources
  
• Research Informed Teaching, Oxford University
  
• Experiential Learning  Kolb and others.
• Advancing University Learning
• Learning to Think Historically 
• Brain Research:  Implication for Second Language Learning.

Motivation and Learning

• The Impact of Extrinsic Motivation
• Grades as Extinsic Motivators
• Increasing Student Success Through Instruction for Self-Determination
  

Design of Learning Spaces

• Resources from the University of Minnesota
• Lights, Learning and Color
• Integrated Learning Centre at Queen's University
  
• Resources from Educause
• Bibliography from University of Michigan
• Teaching/Learning Activites and the Spaces that Support Them
  

Intellectual and Personal Development as Learning

• Intellectual and Ethical Development in the College Years, Oxford University
  

How Students Approach Learning

• Deep, Surface and Strategic Approaches to Study
• Learning "Controversial" Subjects  Cognitive Dissonance
• Student Approaches to Learning, Oxford University
• Student Conceptions of Learning, Oxford University
  

Preparing to Teach

• The Online Syllabus Workshop  at Brown University
• Tomorrow's Professor
• Promising Syllabus
  
• What Do the Best Teachers Do
• Guidelines on Learning that Inform Teaching, UNSW
  

Issues in Learning

• Ethnic and Gender Issues in Learning and Academic Performance
• Race and the Achievement Gap
  
• Moving from Instruction to Learning:  A Webliography
• The Tyranny of Grades
• The Great Grade-Inflation Lie
• Grade-Inflation or Better Students
• The Dangerous Myth of Grade-Inflation
• Paulo Freire and Education
• Defining and Avoiding Plagiarism:  The WPA Statement on Best Practices.
  

Teaching and Learning in Specific Disciplines

• Chemistry
• Physics
  

Issues in Science Education

• Evaluating and Improving Undergraduate Teaching in Science,Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (2002) Read report free online.
• BIO2010: Transforming Undergraduate Education for Future Research Biologists
• Science Teaching Reconsidered: A Handbook (1997)
  
• Center for Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Education (CSMEE)
• Junior Undiscovered Math Prodigies (Jump)  
• Integrative Approaches to Teaching Undergraduate Science Classes, David Lynn, Emory University (Lynn)
  

Natural Critical Learning Environments

• The Natural Critical Learning Environment (NCLE) Initiative
• Reaction to the Past:  History as Hypothesis, playing games
  
• International Association for the Study of Cooperation in Education (IASCE)
  
• Student-Centered Activities for Large Enrollment Undergraduate Programs (SCALE-UP) Project
• Problem-Based Learning: An Introduction by James Rhem, in the National Teaching and Learning Forum, 8(1), December 1998 
• Problem Based Learning: Speaking of Teaching 11(1), from the Center for Teaching and Learning at Stanford University
• Problem-Based Learning from the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy. This site has a thorough Introduction to Problem-Based Learning
• What is Problem Based Learning
• "Effects of Problem-Based and Lecture-Based Instructional Strategies on Problem Solving Performance and Learner Attitudes in a High School Genetics Class,"  by Yusra Laila Visser
• Getting a Grip on Project-based Learning:  theory, cases and recommendations. by Michael M. Grant
• Paulo Freire and Education

Critical Thinking

• What is Critical Thinking? By Mike Font, Gena Todd, & Barbara Welch
• The SASK Mentor Project:  Using Software and Socratic Methods to Foster Reflective Thought in a Learning Environment.
• Standards of Critical Thinking, The Center and Foundation For Critical Thinking
• Teaching Case Briefing (How Law School Students Teach Themselves to Think)
• Concept Maps as Hypermedia Components, Brian R. Gaines and Mildred L. G. Shaw Knowledge Science Institute, University of Calgary
• Cognitive Apprenticeship:  Making Thinking Visible
• Paulo Freire and Education
• Distinguishing Scholarly Journals from Other Periodicals

College Education

• The Market-Model University:  Humanities in the Age of Money, James Engell and Anthony Dangerfield.
• Every Curriculum Tells a Story
• Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education
• The Boyer Commission on Educating Undergraduates in the Research University. REINVENTING     UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION:  A Blueprint for America's Research Universities
• Center for Teaching Excellence, New York University
• Higher Education and Higher Learning, Oxford University
  

Evaluation of Teaching

• Evaluation of Teaching on the University Level

Scholarship of Teaching 
 

• The Scholarship Landscape in Civil Engineering: A Bridge between Rhetoric and Reality
• Navigating the Web of discourse on the scholarship of teaching and learning: An annotated Webliography.  From the American Library Association

General

• Journal of Excellence in College Teaching - from Miami University
• The Myth of the Texas Miracle in Education, Education Policy Analysis Archives
  
• Tutorial Teaching, Oxford University
  
• Re-envisioning the Ph.D.
• Physics Education Research Group at the University of Maryland
• Research in Physics Education Department of Physics Indiana University, Bloomington
• Building a Science of Teaching Physics, by Edward Redish
• Who Needs to Learn Physics in the 21st Century and Why, by Edward Redish
• Kinds of Constructivism: An Annotated Bibliography
• Annotated Bibliography for Writing Across the Curriculum
• Writing in College:  A Short Guide to College Writing
• Little Red Schoolhouse Writing Program at the University of Chicago
• Social Constructivism as a Philosophy of Mathematics
• Teaching Political Science
• What We Know About Cooperative Learning at the College Level, David Johnson & Roger Johnson, University of Minnesota
• Cooperative/Collaborative Learning
• Teaching and Learning Excellence
• Sabotaging Cooperative Learning: or, Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory
• The Active Learning Site:  Research Summaries
• Medical Education Webring
• Book
• Polished Prose Clarifies Research
• Turning Undergraduate Students into Case Writers, by Ole R. Holsti, Duke University
• Case Study:  Advising Truman on Jewish Refugees and Palestinians After the Holocaust
• Using Case Studies in the Sciences at SUNY Buffalo
• Case Teaching
• Good Teaching Cases and Bad, by Peter E. Paraschos
• Campaign '96: Third-Party Time?  A web-based case study
• Case Study in Congestive Heart Failure.  A web-based case study in CME
• Economic War Among the States: North Carolina and the Battle for Business A web-based case study
• CaseNet Case studies in International Affairs
• Problem Based Learning Initiative
• Problem Based Learning at the University of Delaware
• Problem Based Learning Initiative at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
• Model Institutions for Excellence (MIE) Guide to Successful Programs
• General Education Resources and Bibliography
• Fostering Deeper Learning Carol Johnston Economics Department University of Melbourne
• Beyond Biology 101:  The Transformation of Undergraduate Biology Education
• What Happens When Students Read Multiple Source Documents in History?
• Engines for Education, a hypertext text about learning 
• The Faculty Connection.  Guide for college teachers to emerging technologies in teaching and learning
• Learning Communities Home Page
• International Tutoring
• Ask ERIC
• Natural Learning Initiative
• Designing a Web for Learning
• Virtual Online University
• Global Network Academy
• Global Campus
• The Human Languages Page
• Math Archives
• The Progressive Directory
• Deliberations on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
• CyberRounds  Interactive Medical Grand Rounds
• Educational Philosophy: Why I Teach
• Sociology Cases Database Project
• History Matters:  The Survey US History Course on the Web
• Project Galileo  Your Gateway to Innovative Science Teaching Techniques at Harvard University
• Multimedia Mall  A one-stop, shopping mall for multimedia ideas and tools for educators to create their own teaching materials
• Middle Atlantic Consortium Mathematics and its Application Throughout the Curriculum
• The Interactive Textbook 98
• CHAUTAUQUA SHORT COURSES FOR COLLEGE TEACHERS
• Wakonse.  Missouri. Arizona
• How Do People Learn.  Links to Various Learning Theories or Much the Same Material at Learning Theories from the University of New Orleans.  Don't Know Which Came First.
• Learning to Learn
• Learning Styles Site
• Learning Styles Inventory
• Institute for Learning Styles Research
• Learning Modalities, Styles and Strategies
• Classroom Assessment Techniques
• Classroom Assessment Techniques Examples
• Diversity and Complexity in the Classroom
• Socratic Dialog-Inducing (SDI) Labs
• Effective Techniques of Questioning
• The Role of Questions in Thinking, Teaching and Learning
• Evaluating Your Teaching
• Links on the Evaluation of Teaching
• Motivating Students
• Piaget's Cognitive Stages
• Quizzes, Tests, and Examinations
• Learning Students' Names
• The Name Game
• Reflective Collaborative Learning on the Web

Publications About College Teaching

• Journal of Excellence in College Teaching - from Miami University
• Periodicals Related to College Teaching
• Bioscene Journal of College Biology Teaching

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Teaching Centers on Other Campuses (in alphabetical order by university):

• Center for Teaching Excellence, New York University
• Center for Teaching and Learning at Duke University
• University Teaching Center at George Washington University
• Center for Excellence in Teaching at Georgia Southern University
• Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard University
• Center for Teaching Excellence at Iowa State University
• Center for Teaching Excellence, New York University
• Excellence in Teaching Program at North Georgia College & State University
• Faculty and TA Development at Ohio State University
• Center for Academic Excellence at Portland State University
• Center for Teaching Excellence at Radford University
• Instructional Development at the University of California, Santa Barbara
• Teaching Effectiveness Program at the University of Oregon
• Center for Teaching and Learning at Stanford University
• Center for Teaching Excellence at the University of Toledo
• Center for Teaching Excellence at Tufts University
• Learning and Teaching Center at University of Victoria
• Center for Instructional Development at the University of Washington
• Center for Teaching Excellence at the University of Wyoming
• Keneb Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Notre Dame

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Examples of web pages used by faculty members in their classes:

• Class Web Pages from Northwestern University
• The World Lecture Hall from the University of Texas at Austin

If would like a link to your class page added to our list, please send the URL to the Center. 

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Other Pages of Interest

• Teaching Excellence, New York University
• Writing and Critical Thinking Program at Stanford University
• The Center for Biological and Computational Learning at MIT
• American Association for Higher Education
• Higher Education Development International

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education