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| General References •Cooperating Schools Program - The University of Iowa Cooperating Schools Program (CSP) is a university-wide service to assist faculty, staff, and students in placing research projects in public and private schools throughout Iowa. •Deliberations - An international website on issues of learning and teaching for the higher education community. •Educator's Reference Desk: Higher Education - Information and resources related to higher education. This site is an important resource for educators, administrators, and all interested in undergraduate and graduate education. •The Higher Education Links List - Links to higher education information and resources for educators, researchers, graduates and others. •Higher Education Resource Hub - Online resource directory for higher education worldwide. •MIR's FacultyOnline - Access to textbook data for college faculty. Includes lists of top-selling titles by course and discipline, textbook reviews, book-in-use data, new title information, discussion forums, and a course materials information exchange. •PubText International - Free service for lecturers: submitted information about courses is forwarded to academic and school publishers, who in turn may send review or inspection copies of suitable titles. •Shared Insights from University Co-Teaching - Describes experiences with university co-teaching with special attention to using learning centers in an upper-level education course. •Tomorrow's Professor Listserv - A twice per week, 750 to 1,250 word set of postings on higher education. The listserv exists to present substantial material on many of the latest ideas and practices in higher education, insights on how to prepare for academic careers, contemporary thinking on ways to improve teaching and learning, and suggested strategies for optimizing academic career success. Teaching Tools •A Berkeley Compendium of Suggestions for Teaching With Excellence - Presented as a series of suggestions for improving teaching, this compendium describes more than 200 teaching techniques that faculty members have found to be effective in their courses at the University of California, Berkeley. •California Community Colleges' Best Practices in Vocational and Technical Education - Offers resources, teaching tips and links for education professionals in the areas of curriculum,professional development, student support, performance evaluation and partnerships. •College Resources for Students and Faculty - The New York Times - Articles related to college teaching and learning with a special section for faculty resources. •Gender Equity - Achieving Gender Equity in Science Classrooms: A Guide for faculty. •Graduate Student Instructors (GSI) Guidebook - Resource for teaching assistants at the University of Michigan. •Guidebook for Teaching Labs at University of Michigan - Sections on goals of laboratory classes, the roles of a lab graduate student instructor, preparing for and teaching a lab class, helping students work collaboratively, and grading. •Instructional Development Center - Queen's University. Materials to help teaching assistants further their careers and improve their teaching. •New Tools for Teaching - Resource list by J.J. O'Donnell. •TAs as Teachers - A handbook for teaching assistants at UCSB. •Teaching Tips - Collection of tips for TAs at UCSB. •101 Things - 101 Things You Can Do the First Three Weeks of Class, by Joyce Povlacs Lunde Higher Education Technology Resources •Classtalk - Interactive teaching tool from Better Education, Inc. to facilitate active learning. Provides networked science classroom, teacher's computer and students' calculators. •The Costs Project Cost of Supporting Technology The COSTS Project (Cost of Supporting Technology Services) - Participants in the COSTS project submit data on technology spending for their schools and then receive comparative data from the entire COSTS database. Participation is free to schools who submit their data. Only schools that participate receive the detailed data and the full analyses. How to participate, history, participating schools, and presentations and articles. •CUMREC - A Higher Education Administrative Technology Conference - The purpose of CUMREC is to provide a forum for higher education professionals to share their expertise and experiences with computer systems in an ever-changing world of technology. •Cycle of Improved Practice in Educational Technology - Web-accessible database of over 130 effective resources available for post secondary educators who wish to make better use of educational technology. Contains selected and annotated learning materials to support independent professional development, along with examples of what others have done. •Educational Technology - Higher Education Links for educational technology: journals and newsletters, associations, consortia and networks •Educational Uses of Networks - Collection of guidelines for using electronic communication in the classroom. •EDUCAUSE in Australasia 2003 - Conference theme is 'Expanding the Learning Community - Meeting the Challenges.' Information technology offers the potential for greatly expanding learning communities in all sectors. University of Adelaide, Australia, May 6-9, 2003. •EDUCAUSE Online Guide to Evaluating Information Technology on Campus - What to ask about information technology when choosing a college or university. •Edutech: Higher Education and New Technologies in Switzerland - Presents applications of New Information and Communication Technologies (NICT) in teaching at Swiss universities and other institutions of higher education, specially 'Swiss Virtual Campus'. It also serves as a meeting point for all persons and groups working in this field. •The Electronic Scholar - This site is devoted to the use of high tech tools, such as streaming video, to study expert practice in teaching and to generate and disseminate scholarship. •Engines for Education - A hyper-book written by Roger Schank and Chip Cleary, what's wrong with the education system, how to reform it, and especially, about the role of educational technology in that reform. •The Epiphany Project - Provided strategies and support to assist mainstream writing faculty with integrating technology into their classroom. •FAST (Free Assessment Summary Tool) - Web-based assessment tool that allows students to anonymously submit feedback about their course and/or instructor. •InTRO - Instructional Technology Research Online; includes a document repository, interviews, links, and a "who's who in instructional technology" section. •The Moderator's HomePage - Set of resources for moderators of online discussion in both academic and non-academic settings. •Online Collaborative Learning in Higher Education - Site devoted to world's best practice in online collaborative learning in higher education, and related topics. Find links to online articles, books, journals, and other relevant information. •The Society for College and University Planning - A network of professionals dedicated to excellence in planning for higher education •Students Perceptions of Distance Learning, Online Learning and the Traditional Classroom - Results of a study done at a medium sized state university which finds that distance learning and on-line learning technologies are perceived by students as having some benefits although they are not necessarily knowledge-related. related. •Students' Perceptions of Technology in Learning - Presentation of survey results by Scott Siddall of Denison University. •Study Aids for Visual Learners - In addition to a graphic organizer for online course development, there are visual outlines of learning theory and links to products and workshops for advanced learning. •Using Spreadsheets to Keep Track of Students' Grades - Brief introduction to using Excel and other spreadsheets for managing students' grades and performing basic statistics. •Webdevshare - Annual conference emphasizes sharing real-world solutions to real-world situations in e-commerce, Web portals, legacy data, usability, accessibility, and self-service applications in higher education. Indiana University Bloomington. Also find news about past conferences, mailing lists, and contact information. [Final Webdev conference was in 2003] •The Wired Professor - Companion web site to a book about technology in college education. •Yenza! - Using the Internet for research and teaching in the Social Sciences and Humanities. |
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