Online Resources

Teaching in Times of Crisis: Managing Intense Discussions

After 9/11 and again recently in the wake of the onset of military conflict in Iraq, colleagues at a number of institutions have pulled together resources to help in thinking through related issues and in managing discussions about the current crisis with students.

Suggestions that specifically address the current Iraq conflict from the University of Michigan's Center for Research on Teaching and Learning:

http://www.crlt.umich.edu/wariniraqdiscussion.html

Managing hot topics in the classroom from Harvard's Bok Center:

http://bokcenter.fas.harvard.edu/docs/hotmoments.html

Practical guidelines for instructors in the aftermath of 9/11 from the University of Washington's Center for Instructional Development and Research:

http://depts.washington.edu/cidrweb/guide.html

How Humans Learn

How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, School edited by John D. Bransford, Ann L. Brown, and Rodney R. Cocking, National Research Council, 1999. This excellent study is available in its first edition online. An expanded edition was published in 2000 and may be found in the Courtright Memorial Library's electronic collection.

http://www.nap.edu/html/howpeople1/

Glossary: Teaching and Learning

A detailed glossary of general information and additional references about teaching and learning (approaches, philosophies, methods) is available through Georgetown University's Visible Knowledge Project.

http://crossroads.georgetown.edu/vkp/resources/glossary

Online journals and articles about teaching and learning

Tomorrow's Professor^TM Listserv - a listserv and archived collection of brief articles out of Stanford University on a wide range of teaching and learning topics (e.g. "How Our Students See the World," "Developments that Changed Teaching and Learning in Higher Education," "Improving Student Learning While Saving Faculty Time")

http://sll.stanford.edu/projects/tomprof/newtomprof/postings.html

The National Teaching & Learning Forum online newsletter - originally begun as a joint venture with the ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education, the newsletter contains many useful short pieces on a wide range of topics. Many articles from past editions are available online. Sample essays topics include "Radical Course Revision: A Case Study," "Critical Thinking Strategies." The Center for Teaching and Learning at Otterbein has the current editions on paper in the office. Should enough local faculty members be interested in having access to the entire archived editions as well as the current ones electronically, the CTL would be willing to invest in a site license. Contact the CTL for more information (ctl@otterbeinl.edu).

http://www.ntlf.com/

Faculty Life

Faculty Vitality & Well-Being is a site developed by Dr. Charles Walker, a psychologist at St. Bonaventure University. One of his research interests involves "the role of well-being and optimism in teaching and learning."

http://web.sbu.edu/vitality/faculty_vitality/

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Annotated bibliography on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/elibrary/docs/bibliography.htm

Indiana University tutorial on the scholarship of teaching and learning

http://aahe.ital.utexas.edu/sotl_tutorial/home.html

The scholarship of teaching and learning at Illinois State University

http://www.cat.ilstu.edu/sotl/index.shtml

Getting scholarship of teaching and learning articles published

http://www.cat.ilstu.edu/sotl/sotlpub.shtml