Newest Resources in "Teaching"
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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iCampus: Projects: Technology Enabled Active Learning (TEAL)
- Goal: Replace MIT's large freshman Physics lectures with a studio format, in which one can engage students more fully by incorporating active learning methods into the Introductory Physics classroom, enabled by technology.
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SCALE-UP
- Educational research indicates that students should collaborate on interesting tasks and be deeply involved with the material they are studying. We promote active learning in a redesigned classroom of 100 students or more. (Of course, smaller classes can also benefit.) We believe the SCALE-UP Project has the potential to radically change the way large classes are taught at colleges and universities.
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The Reinvention Center
- The Reinvention Center is a national center focusing on undergraduate education at research universities.
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ChemConnections
- These 2-4-week modules start with relevant real-world questions and develop the chemistry needed to answer them. In the process, students model how chemistry is actually done and discover connections between chemistry and other sciences, technology, and society. In order to develop critical thinking skills as well as cover chemical content, modules feature student-centered active and collaborative classroom activities and inquiry-based laboratory and media projects, rather than relying primarily on traditional lectures and verification laboratories. This approach is based on research showing that students learn best when they build on past experience, relate what they are learning to things that are relevant to them, have direct "hands-on" experience, construct their own knowledge in collaboration with other students and faculty, and communicate their results effectively.
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BioQUEST
- BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium: Problem Posing, Problem Solving, and Persuasion in Undergraduate Biology. BioQUEST actively supports educators interested in the reform of undergraduate biology and engages in the collaborative development of curricula.
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BioSciEdNet
- The BEN Portal provides access to education resources from BEN Collaborators and is managed by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Over 6,630 reviewed resources covering 77 biological sciences topics are available. BEN resources can help you engage student interest, shorten lesson preparation time, provide concept updates, and develop curricula that are in line with national standards for content, use of animals and humans, and student safety.
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TA's as the Key to Science Teaching
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in Teaching"In 1997, Elaine Seymour was one of the authors of Talking About Leaving: Why Undergraduates Leave the Sciences (Westview). She found that a reason cited by student after student at a range of institutions was poor teaching. And at many institutions, teaching assistants were a major part of the problem."
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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. "
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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.
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Macrogalleria
- Site dedicated to polymers: in the real world, their chemistry and properties, how they are used and what they are made of. Sub-sections (being expanded) offer demos and experiments, and " activities " that use the information available in this expanding resource. Feedback, comments and especially contributions are welcome!
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The Irascible Professor
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in TeachingIrreverent commentary about the state of education in America today, by a veteran of more than 30 years in public higher education.
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Fear 101
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in Teachingby Elizabeth Bobrick, Salon , September 1, 1999. " Seasonal teaching anxiety reduces the most experienced professors to raw nerves and nightmares. "
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Physics 2000
- " An interactive journey through modern physics " -- contains some very cool and accessible explanations of such recent developments as Bose-Einstein condensates. Lots of Java applets are used to illustrate key principles.
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BIODIDAC
- A collection of images to teach zoology, botany, histology and human biology. Free for educational non-profit purposes.
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Reform Calculus Resource Archive
- Ready-to-print Activities (in-class groupwork), Projects (long-term assignments), Capsules, Tutorials, and Resources (both for instructors and students) in Calculus.
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Explore Space Control Center
- An educational resource to astronomy and space.
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Handbook on Teaching Undergraduate Science Courses: A Survival Training Manual
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in Teachingby Gordan Uno. Covers everything you need to know about teaching undergraduate science classes. NextWave gives it two enthusiastic thumbs up.
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Richard Felder's Resources in Engineering and Science Education
- An interesting collection of articles on teaching and learning styles.
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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. "
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calculus@internet
- Resources for teaching calculus, linear algebra, and ODE's.
