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Link from Portland State University, Center for Academic Excellence. Focuses on PSU tenure and promotion guidelines but samples and suggestions for tailoring the portfolio may be helpful to those without such guidelines. Describes elements of teaching portfolio, community outreach portfolio, research portfolio, and professional development. portfolio.

Click Here for Book Review Abstract: Sponsored by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), this one-of-a-kind book demonstrates the best tools, resources, and techniques for discovering, selecting, and integrating interactive open educational resources (OERs) into the teaching and learning process. The author examines many of the best repositories and digital library websites for finding high quality materials, explaining in depth the best practices for effectively searching these repositories and the various methods for evaluating, selecting, and integrating the resources into the instructor’s curriculum and course assignments, as well as the institution’s learning management system. (From the Publisher)

Here are the highest teaching goals to remind you that great teaching is more than a handful of teaching tricks strung together with modest aims and sufficient expertise in your field.

Overall, there are a number of reasons why using clicker questions in a large lecture class makes sense. When used effectively, clickers can help the students become actively engaged in the lecture and help them learn the material better. Click it to stick it!

The story is a familiar one across college campuses:students stay up late into the night cramming weeks’ worth of material into one study session before the big exam, only to forget the material as soon as the exam is over.

When students ask for studying advice, what should we tell them?

In tiered classrooms (also sometimes called differentiated classrooms), the instructor’s approaches to teaching content and evaluating student performance are adjusted to accommodate for the diversity of students’ readiness, degree of interest, and learning profiles.

Ever wanted to ask an experienced faculty member how they teach? Get the secrets they've learned over a long, productive academic career? Ten teaching tips from Prof. John Boothroyd

Third in a three-part series: Mary Huber, Ph.D., introduces us to SoTL, the scholarship of teaching and learning, its motivation and history.

Second in a three-part series: Mary Huber, Ph.D., introduces us to SoTL, the scholarship of teaching and learning, its motivation and history.