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| Faculty Development 101 Creating and teaching a course in this environment can be a new challenge for many faculty members, so to help you learn more about distance education in general and the World Campus in particular, Penn State has created this faculty development program. https://courses.worldcampus.psu.edu/welcome/facdev101 |
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| Teaching with Technology This University of Oregon site includes some material that is specific to UO, but also has a wealth of useful ideas on topics such as enriching discussions with technology, improving lectures, and online assessment. http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/%7Etep/technology/index.html |
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| UMUC-Bell Atlantic Virtual Resource Site for Teaching with Technology Provides resources for use in the selection of appropriate media to accomplish specific learning objectives and for faculty using technology in research assignments, small group projects, and discussions to encourage activity. http://www.umuc.edu/virtualteaching |
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| Deliberations on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education is a British site containing material on a variety of issues, including collaborative learning, faculty development, assessment, teaching portfolios (a site compiled by Peter Seldin and Graham Gibbs), and discipline-related topics including engineering education. | ||
| Links to a Better Education is an incredible collection of links to handouts for students on learning and study skills, note-taking, listening, preparing for tests and taking them (in general and specifically for multiple choice and essay tests), test anxiety, problem solving, critical thinking, science, writing in general and scientific writing, writing lab reports, mathematics, motivation, time management, procrastination, concentration, memory, reading, plagiarism, research, speaking, stress management, depression, working in groups, learning styles, international student problems, and creativity. The list has not been updated since 2003 and a number of the links are broken, but an instructor looking for a handout on a specific topic is still almost certain to find one or more good ones. | ||
| NEXT (Narratives Supporting Excellent Teaching) contains hypothetical case histories involving common challenges (teaching a course for the first time, having trouble managing time, working with TA's, managing disruptive classes, getting classes actively involved in learning, etc.), suggests strategies for dealing with them, and provides links to relevant articles that provide additional information. | ||
Learning Styles |
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| Answers from Teaching/Learning Experts contains videoclips of four teaching experts--Alice Agogino of UC-Berkeley, Richard Felder of N.C. State, Randy Katz of UC-Berkeley, and Siegfried Holzer of Virginia Tech--responding to questions about (among other things) active learning, cooperative learning, experiential learning, learning and teaching styles, and instructional technology. | ||
| How People Learn is an on-line version of John Bransford's comprehensive survey of modern cognitive science and its applications to pedagogy. (How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School, Expanded Edition. Washington, National Academy Press, 2000) | ||
| Samford University Problem-Based Learning Page contains information about and links to publications on problem-based learning in a variety of fields. See also Don Woods' PBL page.. | ||
| Active Learning | ||
| Collaborative Learning | ||
| Innovations in SMET Education contains a wealth of information about collaborative learning and instructional technology, and a field-tested assessment guide. It was created by the National Institute for Science Education at the University of Wisconsin. | ||
| Online Cooperative Learning in Higher Education is a large and rapidly growing site containing links to articles about both on-line and off-line cooperative learning as well as links to web sites of leading CL practitioners and authors. The site is maintained by Tim Roberts of Central Queensland University, Australia. | ||
| Experiential Learning | ||
| Experiential Learning and Experiential Education contains information on the history and methods of experiential education, or education based on learning through real experiences as opposed to sitting in classrooms. | ||
| Problem Based Learning | ||
| Multi-Media Resource | ||
| Interactive Multimedia Development University of Texas at Austin site providing useful information about learning theories, multimedia development processes, design principles, and software programs related to interactive multimedia production and design. http://www.edb.utexas.edu/multimedia/ |
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| Instructional Management Systems - EDUCAUSE | ||
| Global Campus is a collaborative multimedia database containing materials for engineering, science, business, liberal arts, fine arts, and library. It has numerous links to resources. | ||
| MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching). A vast searchable collection of on-line instructional materials in all disciplines. | ||
| SyllabusWeb is maintained by Syllabus Press, publishers of Syllabus Magazine. It is multidisciplinary and focuses on technologies used to enhance education. An excellent feature is their listing of top 20 education web sites and resources. | ||
| World Lecture Hall contains course syllabi, assignments, lecture notes, exams, class calendars, multimedia textbooks, and other resources in a variety of disciplines including engineering, sciences, mathematics, humanities, social sciences, and business. | ||
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