Teaching & Learning Resources

Guidelines, Tips and Strategies for Effective Teaching

IDEA Center Learning Notes
Short papers detailing teaching methods for specific learning goals. See also IDEA Papers and IDEA Center Notes for short papers on various topics related to university teaching.

Teaching Tips Index
A collection of short articles and essays about various teaching issues and dilemmas

Teaching Guides
Practical teaching information from the University of Minnesota’s Center for Teaching and Learning

How People Learn
The entire text of this comprehensive book from the National Research Council is available online

Tomorrow’s Professor Blog and Mailing List
Short articles and a discussion forum sponsored by MIT and Stanford.

Teaching Goals Inventory
A self-assessment designed to help college teachers become more aware of their instructional goals and locate techniques to assess how well they are achieving their goals

Berkeley Compendium of Suggestions for Teaching with Excellence
Suggestions of more than 200 techniques for improving teaching

Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education
The seminal work by Chickering and Gamson

The Teaching Professor
View past issues of this newsletter discussing the teaching strategies supported by the research for effective teaching in the college classroom

The Successful Academic
A website and free newsletter with strategies, practical tips, and time management advice for faculty

Articles about Specific Teaching and Learning Strategies

Twenty Ways to Make Lectures More Participatory

A Survival Handbook for Teaching Large Classes

Writing Instructional Objectives

Asking Questions/Facilitating Discussions

Managing Classroom Dynamics

Evidence for the Efficacy of Student-active Learning Pedagogies

Managing Teaching Loads and Stress

Assessment and Grading

Assigning Course Grades

Resources for Assessing Student Learning

Designing Authentic Assessments

How to Prepare Better Tests

Writing Good Multiple-Choice Exams

Grading Rubrics

Student Portfolios

Evaluating Your Own Teaching

Cooperative Learning

The Cooperative Learning Center at the University of Minnesota

Structures and Methods for Collaborative Learning/Using Groups

Articles about Issues in Teaching & Learning

Grade Inflation

Academic Integrity and the Use of Plagiarism Detection Services

Plagiarism Detection Services Bibliography

Plagiarism Online: A bibliography for composition and rhetoric

Confronting Plagiarism and Preventing Plagiarism in Research Papers from Change Magazine, May/June 2004

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