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A Berkeley Compendium of Suggestions for Teaching With Excellence
The distilled wisdom of recipients of Berkeley's Distinguished Teaching Award.
Eric Mazur's Science Education Page
ConcepTests and Peer Instruction. One of the most interesting approaches to science education.
Richard Felder's Resources in Engineering and Science Education
An interesting collection of articles on teaching and learning styles.
Active and Cooperative Learning
Papers by R.M. Felder. The traditional teacher-centered approach to learning "has repeatedly been found inferior to instruction that involves active learning, in which students solve problems, answer questions, formulate questions of their own, discuss, explain, debate, or brainstorm during class, and cooperative learning, in which students work in teams on problems and projects under conditions that assure both positive interdependence and individual accountability."
100 Tips for College Science Educators
Teaching tips and innovations from Brown University's science and engineering faculty.
Learning Styles
by R. M. Felder. "The idea is not to teach each student exclusively according to his or her preferences, but rather to strive for a balance of instructional methods. If the balance is achieved, students will be taught partly in a manner they prefer, which leads to an increased comfort level and willingness to learn, and partly in a less preferred manner, which provides practice and feedback in ways of thinking and solving problems which they may not initially be comfortable with but which they will have to use to be fully effective professionals."
Innovative Teaching Exchange
An exchange that allows people teaching mathematics at the college level to share new methods they have tried, invented, or discovered, which they feel help the students learn better and/or more easily. The intention is to encourage more experimentation with more methods than the traditional lecture/questions method.
Student Assessment of Learning Gains
This free site is designed for instructors of all disciplines who would like feedback from their students about how the course elements are helping their students to learn. It is offered as a service to the college-level teaching community.
Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning
POGIL is a classroom and laboratory technique that seeks to simultaneously teach content and key process skills such as the ability to think analytically and work effectively as part of a collaborative team.
Field-tested Learning Assessment Guide (FLAG)
The FLAG offers broadly applicable, self-contained modular classroom assessment techniques and discipline-specific tools for SMET instructors interested in new approaches to evaluating student learning, attitudes and performance. Each has been developed, tested and refined in real colleges and universities classrooms.
The Reinvention Center
The Reinvention Center is a national center focusing on undergraduate education at research universities.
Peer-led Team Learning
The PLTL Workshop model engages teams of six to eight students in learning sciences, mathematics and other undergraduate disciplines guided by a peer leader. The PLTL Workshop model: provides an active learning experience for students, creates a leadership role for undergraduates, and engages faculty in a creative new dimension of instruction.
Reforming The Teaching Of Mathematics At The Undergraduate Level
An interesting experiment at the University of Waterloo in which an undergraduate taught an undergraduate mathematics course.
Just in Time Teaching
Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT for short) is a teaching and learning strategy based on the interaction between web-based study assignments and an active learner classroom. Students respond electronically to carefully constructed web-based assignments which are due shortly before class, and the instructor reads the student submissions "just-in-time" to adjust the classroom lesson to suit the students' needs. Thus, the heart of JiTT is the "feedback loop" formed by the students' outside-of-class preparation that fundamentally affects what happens during the subsequent in-class time together.
The Learning Revolution
"Representing a bold and spirited departure from traditional teaching/learning organizations, the Learning Revolution International (LRI) is dedicated to changing the way the world learns. LRI utilizes advanced teaching methods to address multiple intelligences and sensory faculties, based on the latest brain and neuroscience research."