Resources

A short and focused list of North American conferences on higher education, instructional technology and multicuturalism, maintined by Indiana University Northwest’s Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.

A very active and informed list-serv, web site, conference and publications for directors of teaching and learning centers on college and university campuses.

The online resource page provides a single valuable link for each of a long list of topics.

A dozen or so brief essays, samples, and rubrics helpful for instructional design in higher education that emphasizes the skills of critical thinking, assembled by the Foundation for Critical Thinking.

A brief accessible article that summarizes the findings of the “Educating Clergy” study conducted by the Carnegie Endowment and published by Jossey-Bass in 2006, written by one of the authors of the study.

A 4 page paper that reviews the strengths and weaknesses of lectures, and provides a concise list of recommended practices. Lots of bibliography for further reading. Idea Paper no. 46, from the series developed by the Center for faculty Evaluation and development, Kansas State University.

Each semester OTEI posts new editions in this popular series of essays on teaching excellence. The essays are written by renowned faculty developers on a wide variety of instructional topics and are available here in PDF form.

Brief, schematic argument for the ways in which new information technologies can improve student learning.

Exhaustive list of scholarly papers and websites (some with annotations) that deal with this controversial issue.

Council for Christian Colleges and Universities provides this very brief overview, with links to resources.