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• Creating Significant Learning Experiences. Information about Dee Fink’s book, Creating Significant Learning Experiences, which is arguably the best book available about course design.
• Team-Based Learning. Information about the block-buster team-based learning strategy that’s ambitious, but well worth trying after a teacher has mastered basic cooperative learning techniques.
• The Jigsaw Classroom. Information about how to make each student an integral and essential part of the small group by making them responsible for teaching their peers.
• Problem-Based Learning. Information about using problem-based learning and case studies to teach is presented by the institutional leader in the nation.
• Grading. Two articles from the Grading Handbook (PDF format) published by The Center for Teaching Excellence and The Writing Center at the University of Maryland give specific and concrete guidelines for grading student pages. A Step-by-Step Guide for Effective (and Efficient) Grading, by Linda Coleman, begins on page 12. 15 Concrete Tips for Effective Commenting and Grading, by Tim Helwig, begins on page 14.
• The National Institute for Science Education. Follow the links under Links to access resources for collaborative learning, assessment, and learning through technology in the sciences at the college level.
• Where to publish your teaching ideas–in your discipline. The most comprehensive listing of teaching in the discipline journals anywhere, compliments of Eastern Kentucky University.
• Teaching Tips. A comprehensive list of tips for teachers compiled by the Teaching & Learning Center at Eastern Kentucky University.
• Developing a rubric. Rubistar maintains a great site with editable, flexible, existing rubrics for all kinds of assignments.
• Tomorrow’s Professor. An electronic mailing list that distributes e-mail messages twice a week with career tips and information on issues of interest in higher education. “It’s billed as desktop faculty development,” says Mr. Reis at Stanford University. Past postings and subcription information can be viewed at this site.
• Conferences on teaching and learning. Maintained by the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Indiana University Northwest, this site lists mostly North American conferences.
• International conferences on teaching and learning. Maintained by the Center for Teaching and Learning at Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates, this site lists conferences around the world.
• MountainRise is an open, peer-reviewed, international electronic journal published twice a year by the Coulter Faculty Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning at Western Carolina University for the purpose of being an international vehicle for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL).