Resources

An excerpt from “Improving The Effectiveness Of Your Lectures,“ by William L. Heward, outlining an approach to enhancing the effectiveness of student learning during lectures – through instructor-prepared handouts providing students with background information and cues to write key facts, concepts, and/or relationships during the lecture.

An overview of the research on “universal design,” which aims to design instruction to maximize the learning of students from a wide variety of ethnic and racial backgrounds, English language skills, learning styles, and disabilities.

Provides the results of 15 focus groups of students of color on student perceptions of faculty. Gives suggestions for addressing student concerns: Broaden course content; “manage” diversity; “manage” selves; and deal with institutional context surrounding the classroom

Argues that online collaboration among students does not need to follow the same forms as traditional interaction in face-to-face classrooms. Reviews pioneering and imaginative ways of helping students learn with one another in virtual space – ways that multiply the advantages of extended access with the strengths of enriched learning environments.

A short provocative argument that the issue of internet plagiarism helpfully challenges entrenched but problematic practices of the academy: the term paper, institutional structures around grades, and the tacit assumption that knowledge is stored information.

A short article by Diane Jonte-Pace, reviewing recent literature and issues, and commenting on specifically on aspects of the situation at Santa Clara University.