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An independent professional development, training, and mentoring community of over 11,000 graduate students, post-docs and faculty members, dedicated to supporting academics in making successful transitions throughout their careers. Membership offers on-campus workshops, professional development and mentoring programs, discussion forums, newsletters, and resources
Diverse teams of faculty and other academic and student affairs professionals from a wide range of institutions has drafted and revised institutional-level rubrics (and related materials) to correspond with the AAC&U "Essential Learning Outcomes." Each VALUE rubric contains the most broadly shared criteria or core characteristics considered to be critical for judging the quality of student work in a particular outcome area, including: intellectual/practical skills (such as critical thinking and communication), personal and social responsibility (such as civic engagement and ethical reasoning), and integrative and applied learning.
“Top 10 Tips for Staying Up to Date in Faculty Development" - including: journals, list-servs, Twitter feeds, and more.
A list of faculty development-related people and organizations tweeting on issues of technology in higher education.
A quick review of the concept and basic contents of a teaching portfolio, by Boston University's Center for Excellence and Innovation in Teaching.
Links to related short articles on practical topics for establishing and administering a faculty learning community, such as: mission and purpose, curriculum, meetings and activities, administration, and assessment.
A faculty learning community is a faculty group engaging in activities that provide learning, development, and community. This web page lists 10 qualities guide the design and process of a faculty learning community.
A quarterly bulletin published online (subscription restrictions) by Wiley-Blackwell, for chairs, deans, academic vice presidents, and other administrators, Practical information, written by practitioners from their own experience.
The AAUP's website provides a wealth of materials to advance academic freedom and shared governance, to define fundamental professional values and standards for higher education, and to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good.
The EPAC Community of Practice provides a huge store of resources on electronic teaching portfolios, as well as a viritual community of webcasts, blogs, queries, and conferences.