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
Evidence for the Efficacy of Student-active Learning Pedagogies
Managing Teaching Loads and Stress
Assessment and Grading
Resources for Assessing Student Learning
Designing Authentic Assessments
Writing Good Multiple-Choice Exams
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
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
To add or suggest additional resources, please contact us.