There are excellent resources on learning and teaching available on the web. If you do not find what you are looking for below, please contact us for assistance.

IDEA Center Knowledge Base – collection of  resources, reports, research on best practices in teaching.
Functioning as a nonprofit organization, the IDEA Center serves institutions of higher education by gathering and disseminating resources, and providing consulting and training services to improve student learning through teaching excellence.  Click on “Knowledge Base” to view excellent online resources focused on teaching and faculty evaluation, written by teachers from many different institutions; all “IDEA Papers” and “IDEA Notes” are concise and practical.  A great resource for both experienced and early career faculty.

 

The Carnegie Commons – this space is dedicated to fostering a community of teachers who exchange knowledge about teaching and learning.  It uses the KEEP Toolkit software and WordPress, a free electronic publishing platform which supports blogging.  Resources range from research reports in attractive and colorful poster forms, to interactive syllabuses, to forums on open education.  An excellent resource for instructors looking for innovative ideas in using technology in their teaching, or to join a community to discuss ideas.

http://commons.carnegiefoundation.org/

 

Diversity Web – a Resource Hub for Higher Education.  This site is hosted by AAC&U and is focused on providing resources to help institutions establish diversity initiatives.  The AAC&U’s publication “Diversity & Democracy” can be accessed free through this site.  Instructors looking for information about incorporating inclusive teaching or diversity instruction will find helpful resources here. 

http://www.diversityweb.org/

 

Clemson University Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation Websites for Instructional Use.  Clemson’s faculty development office has identified disciplinary resources from many different institutions that can be used as online teaching materials in your classes. From Anthropology to Entomology to Religious Studies, there are educational resources to inspire and engage your students.

http://www.clemson.edu/OTEI/resources/instructional.html

 

St. Edwards University Center for Teaching Excellence “Bloom’s Polygon” – This simple graphic is an excellent tool to use while writing student learning outcomes.  Not only does it have a broad list of measurable verbs, but suggests learning activities as well that will help students prepared to be assessed in that competency.

http://www.uccs.edu/~assess/files/BloomPolygon.pdf

Faculty Development Associates Online Resources Collection – This independent faculty development consulting firm has compiled a long alphabetical topic list of online resources on a variety of teaching and learning topics. 

http://www.developfaculty.com/online/index.html

 

Teaching for Inclusion: Diversity in the College Classroom – E-Book, Center for Teaching and Learning, UNC. - The faculty development center an UNC has created an open access resource for instructors who want to understand and deal with the increasing diversity of their students and the kind of impact that may have on their classrooms.  Though written with the demographics of UNC in mind, the information provided, especially in the first half of the book, is applicable to any institution.

http://ctl.unc.edu/TeachforInclusion.pdf

 

Scholarship of Teaching: What’s the Problem? By Randy Bass (Georgetown University) – For over ten years now, this classic essay has been read by instructors to understand what is meant by the “scholarship of teaching.”  Unlike in research, where having problems is something we want, having a problem in our teaching is a different thing all together. Randy Bass challenges us to think, “Changing the status of the problem in teaching from terminal remediation to ongoing investigation is precisely what the movement for a scholarship of teaching is all about. How might we make the problematization of teaching a matter of regular communal discourse? How might we think of teaching practice, and the evidence of student learning, as problems to be investigated, analyzed, represented, and debated?”

http://www.doit.gmu.edu/Archives/feb98/rbass.htm

Teaching and Learning Research Periodicals – Center for Instructional Development and Research, Univ. of Washington – If you are looking for articles about teaching and learning in your discipline, this is a great place to start.  The faculty development center at the University Washington have compiled a list of journals by discipline.  Most of these are available through our A&M libraries.

http://depts.washington.edu/cidrweb/resources/journals.html

Magna Resources for Higher Education - This site has a wealth of resources related to teaching and learning. Registration is free.
 
http://www.magnapubs.com/


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