Resources

Case study by a professor who transformed his lecture class into a cooperative learning class.

Numerous teaching techniques for collaborative and cooperative learning (apparently aimed at K-12, but useful for higher education as well).

Walks faculty through a comprehensive process to design and implement in-class group learning techniques

Simple orientation to Problem Based Learning with helpful how-to PDF files to download.

Mostly geared toward the sciences - but sample problems and curricula can be mined for information about the process of designing similar resources for religion/theology. Lots of links to additional resources.

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.

For those who learn through spatial representation, the skills and activities associated with Bloom's Taxonomy are laid out here in a complex diagram (various selections found in google search).

Brief descriptions of different learning styles

An easy-to-use inventory to determine one’s Multiple Intelligence preferences

The definitive Multiple Intelligences Webpage. (Homepage of Thomas Armstrong, disciple of Howard Gardner, the educator responsible for appropriating multiple intelligences for classroom use.) Lots of useful information, links, suggestions.