Web Resources for Faculty

www.virtual.edu/groups/OTEI/links/websites.htm This Clemson U site offers extensive info, tips and links for post-secondary teaching.
www.wku.edu/teaching/booklets/hurtfulcomments.html This website addresses coping with hurtful comments on student evaluation forms.
www.developfaculty.com Although this is a teaching consultant’s commercial website, it does provide a number of teaching tips as well as 140 specialized websites (click the “online resources” button) for post-secondary teaching.
www.wilmu.edu/edtech/instructionaldesign/index.html This valuable directory of web links to teaching resources was assembled by Educational Technology of Wilmington University and is part of their website. It is based on the “Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education.” Click on any of the seven branches of the tree.
www.chronicle.com This is the website for the Chronicle of Higher Education which is a weekly publication that has diverse articles and information.
www.eric.ed.gov/ A search engine enabling access to millions of research reports. A must for students doing Teacher-As-Researcher papers and a key source of scholarly research for faculty.
www.ntlf.com/ A newsletter about teaching and learning in a post-secondary environment.
www.innovateonline.info Innovate is a bimonthly, peer-reviewed online periodical (ISSN 1552-3233) published by the Fischler School of Education and Human Services at Nova Southeastern University. The journal focuses on the creative use of IT to enhance educational processes in academic, commercial, and governmental settings. Free subscription.
tlc.unlv.edu This is the website for the Teaching and Learning Center at U of Nevada at Las Vegas. Contains a large list of concisely written tips and suggestions for post-secondary teaching. Within the site, go to “pedagogy resources” and then click the “teaching tips” button to access a menu of topics.
www.isu.edu/ctl/nutshells/index.html This newsletter was begun in 1991 at U of Wisconsin and is now continued at Idaho State U. Conveys teaching information that is “practical and … is cognizant of current trends in teaching, learning and thinking.”
www.uc.edu/pbl/intro_isit.shtml This U of Cincinnati site offers comprehensive info and insights into Problem Based Learning (PBL), including a 7 item checklist to determine if PBL actually is being used in the classroom.
www.udel.edu/pbl/ This U of Delaware site provides a good background on PBL and uses video clips to help understand PBL.
www.aishe.org/readings/2005-2/contents.html This site from the All Ireland Society for Higher Education also provides excellent background on PBL.
http://teaching.berkeley.edu/compendium/ Berkeley Compendium of Suggestions for Teaching with Excellence - A wonderful collection of over 200 teaching tips and techniques from the University of California.
http://www.utexas.edu/academic/cte/resources/ Teaching and Learning Resources - A resource list from the University of Texas which offers information on learning theories and practical advice for college professors.
http://www.msc.wku.edu/Dept/Support/AcadAffairs/CTL/cte.htm College Teaching Encyclopedia - Another collection of websites, this site includes discipline specific websites, general instruction websites, and teaching tips.
http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/deliberations/ Deliberations is a website on higher education issues that is international in scope. The section on “Generic Learning and Teaching Resources and Issues” contains useful information on a variety of topics. The site also includes a listing of subject specific resources and other educational resources.
http://www.merlot.org Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) is a collection of links to online learning materials in subject disciplines such as the Arts, Education, Humanities, Mathematics and Statistics, Science and Technology, and Social Sciences.

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