Teaching Resources on the Web
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Modes of Teaching
Active learning techniques for the college classroom Donald Paulson (Chemistry and Biochemistry) and Jennifer Faust (Philosophy), both California State University in LA, provide summaries of active learning techniques from individual exercises like “One Minute Papers” to concepts of wait time when asking questions, and cooperative learning.
Cooperative Learning Methods - Newsletters
and Key Articles The Cooperative Learning Center at The University of
Minnesota focuses on how students should interact with each other as they
learn and the skills needed to interact effectively.
Evaluation of Learning
Designing
multiple choice questions applying Bloom’s taxonomy of educational
objectives. Part of the University of Cape Town’s page on designing
and managing multiple choice questions.
Resources
in Science and Engineering Education: Assessing Learning Style Preferences
This web site offers guidance on learning styles and instructional techniques,
especially in science and engineering education. Dr. Richard M. Felder is
the Hoechst Celanese Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at North
Carolina State University.
California State University's site on Student Learning Outcomes is a great online source of information on assessment and rubrics (including a brief essay by Mary Allen on rubrics).
The Teaching, Learning, and Technology Group's site explains the use of rubrics and provides specific examples from a variety of college courses.
Assessment of Teaching
Evaluation of Teaching
Through links to on-line resources at Ohio State and at other institutions,
as well as published sources, this site offers principles and methods for
the formative and summative evaluation of teaching, including Feedback on
Your Instruction (FYI).
Diversity
Fast Facts for Faculty on disability issues: A wide range of brief articles to help you to assist students with disabilities and to gain greater understanding of the accommodations process.
Technology
Thirty-two Trends Affecting Distance Education: An Informed Foundation for Strategic Planning by Scott L. Howell and Peter B. Williams (Brigham Young University) and Nathan K. Lindsay (University of Michigan). Administrators need to be informed and prepared with strategic plans equal to foreseeable challenges. This article provides decision makers with 32 trends that affect distance learning and thus enable them to plan accordingly. The trends are organized into categories as they pertain to students and enrollment, faculty members, academics, technology, the economy, and distance learning.
Managing and Motivating! Distance Learning Group Activities Barbara J. Millis, Director of Faculty Development, US Air Force Academy, helps you structure online activities to encourage student interaction and active learning by applying the same principles of cooperative learning that also foster effective in-class learning.
World Lecture Hall University of Texas at Austin publishes links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver course materials in any language.
Course Preparation
Teaching Goals Inventory: A self assessment of instructional goals that will help you when developing a new course, revising a course, and writing or re-writing a philosophy of teaching. Provided by the Center for Teaching at The University of Iowa.
Resources and Links World Wide
Ohio Learning Network: a consortium of colleges and universities using technology to enhance learning. The site includes links to listserv communities of faculty interested in discussing issues of learning theory, instructional design, and learning technologies.
Instructional Development and Technology Sites Worldwide Dalhousie University’s Office of Instructional Development and Technology provides a comprehensive list of links.
Homepages of University Teaching Centers in Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Europe, and North America. Facilitated by the Center of Teaching Excellence at the University of Kansas.
Teaching Resource Exchange allows college teachers to find resources to help them teach. Includes links to journals, web sites, listserves, and more.
Tomorrow's Professor ListServ seeks to foster a diverse, world-wide teaching and learning ecology among its nearly 12,000 subscribers at over 500 institutions and organizations in 86 countries around the world.
Initiatives and Projects at Ohio State
The Ohio State University Web Media Collective formed as a result of the 1998 Instructional Innovation Grant Program. The Web Media Collective is a cross-disciplinary research group involving the College of Humanities, the College of the Arts and College of Education.
School
of Physical Activity and Educational Services: Instructional Enhancement
Initiative
This web site features announcements of quarterly events such as the Book
Club and instructional workshops for faculty in PAES.
Department
of Veterinary Biosciences: Teaching Resources
This web site includes the ExEdComm Corner, a monthly column written
by members of the department’s Excellence in Education Committee.
It features brief reviews of teaching-related papers, websites, and ideas.