Teaching Tips
- A Berkeley Compendium of Suggestions for Teaching with Excellence
- Indiana State University Center for Instruction, Research & Technology
Teaching and Learning Styles
- Grasha-Riechmann Style Inventory
- Explanation of Grasha-Riechmann Styles
- Kolb Style Inventory and Other Teaching/Learning Style Information
- VARK Style Inventory
- Teaching and Learning Style Resources
- Western KY University Faculty Center for Teaching Excellence Electronic Booklets on Teaching Topics
- University of Hawaii-Honolulu Teaching Tips Website
- Plagiarism: Prevention and Response: A workshop for Lawrence faculty
- More Info
Faculty Development
- FaCE Faculty Career Enhancement Project (administered by the ACM)
- Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching: An independent policy and research center with a primary mission "to do and perform all things necessary to encourage, uphold, and dignify the profession of the teacher and the cause of higher education."
- The Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
- The Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education
- The Teaching, Learning, and Technology Group
- International Alliance of Teacher Scholars
- Online Resources from Faculty Development Associates
- The Faculty Center Online coaching for academic women by Julie Ann McFann
- CourseCheck: New Pathways for Engaging Students: A tool for faculty and course designers interested in new ways to engage students. Using the CourseCheck process, they can examine their own teaching methods in the context of the Seven Principles of Good Practice. CourseCheck can be used to review a single course no matter the level or discipline. CourseCheck was developed for those who want to learn more about how the Seven Principles of Good Practice can deepen their knowledge of good teaching practice.
Discipline-Specific Resources
- MENC: The National Association for Music Education
- Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology
- WAC Clearinghouse: Supporting scholarly exchange about communication across the curriculum.
The Academic Blog Portal
An extensive directory of blogs covering many academic fields.
Podcasts on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
(information compiled by Derek Bruff, Vanderbilt University and Wayne Anderson, Gannon University)
General Interest
- Chronicle of Higher Education: interviews with people in the higher ed community
- Inside Higher Ed: interviews with people in the higher ed community
- Learning Matters Podcast with John Merrow from PBS: new and archived interviews by John Merrow ("Declining by Degrees")
- Around the Academy: commentary on higher education news articles by Julie-Ann McFann of New Professor Mentor Coaching
- The LearningTimes Green Room: discussions and interviews about teaching and learning in K-12, higher ed, and online settings by Dan Balzer and Susan Manning of LearningTimes.org
Teaching & Technology
- Digital Campus: discussions among three humanities scholars and bloggers (Dan Cohen, Mills Kelly, and Tom Scheinfeldt) about the impact of digital media and technology on learning, teaching, and scholarship
- Teach with Tech: an educational technology podcast that covers topics on the leading edge of trends in education. Developed by Chriss Essex of Indiana University.
- James Madison University's Center for Instructional Technology Faculty Spotlight: interviews with campus faculty members teaching with technology
Podcasts from Various Schools' Teaching Development Centers
- Northern Kentucky University PODcast: upcoming events at NKU's Professional & Organizational Development Center and video podcasts of outside speakers
- Portland State University's Center for Academic Excellence Podcasts: audio from recent workshops and speakers [audio files on web site, not syndicated]
Other Areas of Interest
- See also iTunes' directory of higher education podcasts. Most of these feature academics discussing topics in their own discipline and are not about higher education in general.
- California State University's Scholarship of the Teaching and Learning: This not a podcast but rather a link to a series of speakers on engagement in education. Many leaders in the field are highlighted.
- See also the Educational Podcast Network for a listing of educational podcasts. However, most of these focus on the K-12 community.
- ESLTeacherTalk.com Podcast: tips, games, lesson planning/job serach advice, and discussion of pertinent issues related to the teaching of English as a Second Language
