Resources

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.

A wide range of specific learning designs and strategies for the online and blended classroom, organized and reviewed by The University of Central Florida's Center for Distributed Learning. Each entry describes a strategy drawn from the pedagogical practice of online/blended teaching faculty, depicts this strategy with artifacts from actual courses, and is aligned with findings from research or professional practice literature. Search and browse interface.

A thorough, multi-link, description by a teacher who "flipped" her community college art history classroom. Includes links to additional resources, videos with excerpts of many of the learning activities and overviews of student surveys.

A collection of peer-reviewed problems, teaching notes, supplemental materials, and articles to assist educators in using problem-based learning in the classroom. Requires free online registration.

A guide from the University of Minnesota's Center for Writing to help students unnderstnad how university writing is unique. It provides detailed reading, research, and writing strategies for successful academic writing.

Video. A collection of short videos analyzing effective use of clickers (student personal response systems) in science classrooms.

An extensive website with multiple diagrams and links to extended presentations on the various aspects of the Bloom taxonomy of learning styles.

A report from the AAC&U's National Task Force on Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement and a call to action to reclaim higher education’s civic mission by pushing back against a prevailing national dialogue that limits the mission of higher education to workforce preparation and training while marginalizing disciplines basic to democracy.

“Top 10 Tips for Staying Up to Date in Faculty Development" - including: journals, list-servs, Twitter feeds, and more.