Course Design

Classroom Assessment Techniques
“Classroom Assessment is a simple method faculty can use to collect feedback, early and often, on how well their students are learning what they are being taught. The purpose of classroom assessment is to provide faculty and students with information and insights needed to improve teaching effectiveness and learning quality. College instructors use feedback gleaned through Classroom Assessment to inform adjustments in their teaching.”

Course Design Tip-sheet
Things to consider when developing a course.

Leading and Facilitating Conversations
"Many experienced instructors consider leading small-group discussion more difficult and more challenging than lecturing to a room of two hundred. The lecturer has significant control about what happens in the classroom, while the discussion leader shares control and direction with the students. The best-laid plans must yield to the never wholly predictable factors of the students' enthusiasm, their preparedness, and the general dynamics of the group.”

The National Teaching and Learning Forum - Classroom Assessment Techniques“The techniques are mostly simple, non-graded, anonymous, in-class activities that give both you and your students useful feedback on the teaching-learning process.”  Includes several full text articles/lessons.

A Survival Handbook for Teaching Large Classes
“There is no one way to teach a large class. We have to take into account our teaching style, the characteristics of our students, and the goals and objectives of our course. This handbook is a cafeteria of ideas of how faculty members all over the country have tried to solve many of the problems related to teaching large classes. Decide which one or ones are most likely to work for you, and try them.” Dr. Sallie M. Ives, Director, UNC Charlotte Faculty Center for Teaching.

Syllabus Tutorial

“One of the true strengths of this tutorial is the number and high quality of the examples we showcase. Professors from throughout the University and across disciplines have contributed their syllabi in an effort to help you learn from their experience. (For additional examples of syllabi organized by discipline, see the World Lecture Hall.) You are free to use any text within these pages, and we hope you'll share your syllabi with us as we continue to enhance this site.  The Tutorial is comprised of 8 sections which we have arranged in a typical sequence that might appear on anyone's syllabus, but we invite you to skip around and find the areas most germane to your needs and discipline.”

Teaching Goals Inventory
“The Teaching Goals Inventory (TGI) is a self-assessment of instructional goals. Its purpose is threefold: (1) to help college teachers become more aware of what they want to accomplish in individual courses; (2) to help faculty locate Classroom Assessment Techniques they can adapt and use to assess how well they are achieving their teaching and learning goals; and (3) to provide a starting point for discussion of teaching and learning goals among colleagues.”

Teaching Resource Exchange
“If you are looking for a web site, journal, organization, listserv or other resource to support your teaching in a higher education setting, you've come to the right place. This site is built by members of the higher education community for members of the higher education community; so if you know about a resource that isn't already in the Exchange, please contribute a pointer to it.”

Understanding Prejudice
“Welcome to UnderstandingPrejudice.org, a web site for students, teachers, and others interested in the causes and consequences of prejudice. In these pages you will find more than 2,000 links to prejudice-related resources, as well as searchable databases with hundreds of prejudice researchers and social justice organizations.”

Research Associations, Journals and Forums

American Educational Research Association - Open Access Journals in the Field of Education
“To the best of our ability to discern, we have included only links to electronic journals that are scholarly, peer-reviewed, full text and accessible without cost. We have excluded professional magazines that are largely not refereed, and commercial journals that may only allow access to a very limited number of articles as an enticement to buy. By restricting membership in this way on the list that follows, we hope to do what little we can to promote free access world wide to scholarship in education.”

Center for Academic Integrity
“The Center for Academic Integrity provides a forum to identify, affirm, and promote the values of academic integrity among students, faculty, teachers and administrators. The CAI Web site is divided into a public tier, which contains general information about the Center and its activities, and a members-only tier, which contains specific information on CAI projects, research, and a list-server for members to exchange ideas and information.”

AdjunctSuccess
“Welcome to AdjunctSuccess, the only organization dedicated solely to the professional development needs of part-time professors, and the instructional leaders who coordinate their work. Membership provides a seat in 15 topical Webinars, a biweekly e-newsletter, a seat in the AS Café, and access to rich sets of printable and online resources.”

The Chronicle of Higher Education
“The Chronicle of Higher Education is the No. 1 source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. A subscription to The Chronicle includes access to all of this Web site.”

Diversity Web
"This site is designed to provide a comprehensive compendium of campus practices and resources for campus practitioners seeking to place diversity at the center of the academy's educational and societal mission."