Faculty Development Centers

• The Centre for Teaching and Academic Growth, University of British Columbia, Canada
  • Teaching and Learning Programs.

• Education World -The Educator's Best Friend
  Education World's goal is to make it easy for educators to integrate the Internet into the classroom. Also a good source of educational news.

• Getting Ready to Teach - Resources for Teaching Assistants
  A compilation of sites useful for those preparing to teach.

• University of Iowa: Center for Teaching
  Tools to Use, Things to Read

• University of Massachusetts at Amherst: Center for Teaching
  • Preparing a Teaching Portfolio (PDF)
    "This publication...can assist faculty and teaching assistants in the important process of documenting teaching practices."

• University of Michigan: Center for Research on Learning and Teaching
  
  • Teaching Strategies & Disciplinary Resources The purpose of these pages is to assist faculty and graduate student instructors (GSIs) in their teaching by providing online teaching strategies and resources.

• Michigan State University: Teaching Assistant Program
  "The mission of the MSU Teaching Assistant Program is simply to provide ser vices to facilitate our TAs' professional development through their instruction and instructionally related activities."

• University of Minnesota's Center for Teaching and Learning Services
  Teaching support from the University of Minnesota.

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Center for Teaching and Learning
  Supports excellence in teaching at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

• Northwestern University: Searle Center for Teaching Excellence
  "The Center promotes an ongoing discussion about teaching and learning matters, striving both to facilitate that conversation and to contribute to it intellectually.

• Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development
  "The Centre brings together the staff development and teaching support functions."

• Penn State University: Schreyer Institute For Teaching Excellence
  "The Schreyer Institute For Teaching Excellence is dedicated to enhancing undergraduate education at Penn State by working collaboratively with those who are charged with the responsibility of teaching here--including faculty, instructors, teaching assistants, departments, colleges, and campuses."

• Radford University: Faculty Development Center
  A Collection of Teaching Resources

• University of Southern California: Center for Excellence in Teaching
  "The Center for Excellence in Teaching [CET] is committed to improving the undergraduate teaching and learning environment at the University of Southern California."

• University of Texas: Center for Teaching Effectiveness
  "The Center provides both basic and advanced information about the teaching/learning process through an array of formats, including group seminars , classes, self-study materials and individual consultation on specific questions."

• University of Virginia: Teaching Resource Center
  The TRC supports, guides, and catal yzes effective teaching at the University of Virginia.

• University of Washington: Center for Instructional Development and Research
  "CIDR assists faculty, teaching assistants, departments/units, and administrators with teaching and learning challenges as the UW moves into the 21st Century."

  Instructional Web Resources

• Active Learning on the Web
  Bernie Dodge, Department of Educational Technology, San Diego State University

• The Anderson Center for Innovation in Undergraduate Education
  "The Anderson Center is dedicated to improving undergraduate education through the deployment of new pedagogical methods and innovative uses of technology.

• The Center for Critical Thinking
  The Center for Critical Thinking conducts advanced research and disseminates information about the theory and practice of critical thinking.

• The Chronicle of Higher Education
  "The Chronicle is the No. 1 news source for college and university faculty members and administrators."

• Collaborative Learning
  "Collaborative learning has British roots, based on the work of English teachers exploring ways to help students respond to literature by taking a more active role in their own learning..." - Ted Panitz.

• Cooperative Learning
  The Education CONSUMER GUIDES series is produced by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) of the U.S. Department of Education.

• Cooperative Learning Center
  Center staff develop and refine theory and (a) cooperative, competitive, and individualistic efforts and (b) conflict resolution. Staff are engaged in programmatic, long-term research to validate the theories.

• Deliberations on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
  An electronic magazine intended to be "a resource for Educational Developers, Librarians and Academic Staff, with material arranged by Discipline and by Educational Issue and a forum for readers to discuss and develop ideas, and identify resources that will aid their work."

• DiversityWeb
  "DiversityWeb links Colleges and Universities that are working to engage the diversity of United States society in educational mission, campus climate, curriculum focus and connections with the larger society."

• EDUCAUSE
  "The mission of EDUCAUSE is to help shape and enable transformational change in higher education through the introduction, use, and management of information resources and technologies in teaching, learning, scholarship, research, and institutional management."

• Enhancement Courses
  "Enhancement Courses are non-classroom, self-directed courses for teachers, administrators, or any person whose professional and/or salary advancement is achieved with professional growth credit."

• Journal on Excellence in College Teaching
  The Journal on Excellence in College Teaching (ISSN 1052-4800) is published by Miami University.

• National Teaching and Learning Forum
  "The National Teaching & Learning Forum on-line edition -- like the printed version -- offers subscribers stimulating insight from colleagues eager to share new ways of helping students reach the highest levels of learning."

• New Tools for Teaching
  "That's the perspective here -- how to take our academic "day job" and do it better, improve morale among faculty and students, and begin the transformation of our institutions into the forms they will need to take in the information age."

• Horizon
  "Our mission is to inform educators about the challenges that they will face in a changing world and steps they can take to meet these challenges."

• Problem-Based Learning at the University of Delaware
  Problem-Based Learning helps students develop the ability to think critically, analyze problems, and find and use appropriate learning resources...

• San Francisco State University: Instructional Technologies
  "The program is directed toward the education of professionals in the design and production of instructional programs and materials.

• Scholarly Societies Project World Wide Web Index
  An index of links to other scholarly societies.

• Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence
  "To promote partnerships among students, staff, and faculty to design and engage in problem-focused, problem-framing learning experiences that foster inquiry, initiative, and team work."

• The Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
  "The (STLHE) is a national association of academics interested in the improvement of teaching and learning in higher education."

• TeacherLINK
  Includes a NASA Regional Teacher Resource Center, links, instructional materials, and more.

   

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