Teaching and Learning Resources
Resources available in the Faculty and Staff Development office
Resources on the Web
Richard Lyons’ Online Resources for Faculty Development: Dr. Lyons has been working in professional development for higher education for many years. Site also contains information on reasonably priced professional development webinars.
The Hawaii Community College System maintains perhaps the original faculty development site. With lots of great information, many other sites link here.
The Teaching Goals Inventory (TGI) is a self-assessment for professors. Its purpose is threefold: (1) to help professors become more aware of what goals they want to accomplish in individual courses; (2) to help professors locate Classroom Assessment Techniques they can use to assess how well they are achieving their goals; and (3) to provide a starting point for discussions of teaching and learning goals among professors.
The Kansas City Professional Development Council offers on-ground workshops in the Kansas City area on Friday evenings and Saturday mornings. Take a look at the program descriptions for the Faculty Certification Program.
Valencia Community College in Florida supplies numerous links related to faculty professional development including the areas of Assessment, Critical Thinking, Active and Collaborative Learning and Classroom Activities by Subject.
The Kansas State University IDEA Papers: “These succinct papers were written as a resource to support teaching improvement, each is useful to anyone wanting to address specific ways to employ different teaching methods.” Site also provides information on the IDEA workshops held at different sites around the country.
The League of Innovation “is an international organization dedicated to catalyzing the community college movement. We host conferences and institutes, develop Web resources, conduct research, produce publications, provide services, and lead projects and initiatives with our member colleges, corporate partners, and other agencies in our continuing efforts to make a positive difference for students and communities.” The League of Innovation online course takes you to an online course on college teaching that can be done individually or used with groups.
The University of Texas, Austin maintains the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development site.
The Searle Center for University Teaching at Northwestern University offers links to a variety of topics including: Teaching Elements, Teaching Methods, and Teaching Issues.
Oklahoma University provides information regarding “creating significant learning experiences” based on Dee Fink’s book. (For more information about using this model of course redesign, contact Ben Hayes).
The University at Buffalo (SUNY) Teaching and Learning Center - provides links to a variety of teaching strategies and resources.
The Center for Research on Learning and Teaching at the University of Michigan makes available numerous links to teaching and learning resources.
The British Columbia Institute of Technology provides what the Canadians call “Job Aides” for faculty. The “HowTo's" are brief help sheets on specific instructional topics.
The Maricopa Learning exchange (MLX), an electronic warehouse of ideas, examples, and resources (represented as "packages"), supports student learning.
A University Texas at El Paso site allows you to down load a copy of Tony Grasha’s book Teaching with Style. Check out Additional Resources by Topic and Other Teaching and Learning Internet Sites
The University of California at Berkeley Tools for Teaching provides a “compendium of suggestions for teaching with excellence”. The information was first published in a book in 1983 and so may be dated.
Wesleyan University provides links to information on both the theory and practice of college teaching.
The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard: At the bottom of the page, look at the links under the column headings of “Advice” and “Resources”.