References

Below is a list of various references related to teaching and learning in higher education that can be found on the internet and in the CTL library.

Listed below are a number of links related to teaching and learning:

• Harvard University: Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning
• Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
• Chronicle of Higher Education
• Stanford University: Center for Teaching and Learning
• Inside Higher Education
• Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
• ProfHacker
• The Teaching Professor
• TED Talks
• Employee Assistance Program (Higher Ed EAP)
• The Bibliophile’s Lair

Archive of “Teaching Tips”

In Spring 2010, Fall 2010, and Spring 2011, the CTL emailed out weekly teaching tips on a variety of topics related to teaching and learning in higher education. Below is an archive of these teaching tips.

Week 1

• First-Day Questions for the Learner-Centered Classroom
• First Day of Class: What Can/Should We Do?
• Tips for Teaching on the First Day of Class

Week 2

• Strategies to Promote a Deep Approach to Reading
• Teaching with Reading Journals
• Reflection Exercise on a Course’s “Big Question”

Week 3

• 10 Strategies for Effective Discussion Leading
• What’s the Use of Lectures?
• Active Learning

Week 4

• Facilitating Help-Seeking
• Motivating Students to Do the Reading
• The No-Fault Quiz

Week 5

• How to Handle Unprepared Students
• What is Universal Design?
• Tip for Teachers: Twenty Ways to Make Lectures More Participatory

Week 6

• Hoopless Jumping
• Constructing Effective Exams
• How Student Evaluations Can Help You Most

Week 7

• Some Different Types of Questioning
• How Student Evaluations Can Help You Most
• Types of Tests

Week 8

• Alternative Testing Modes
• Part I – Testing and Grading
• Using Rubrics to Grade

Week 9

• Cooperative Learning – Students Working in Small Groups
• Part II – Testing and Grading
• Reenergize

Week 10

• Encouraging Students to Stay Up-to-Date in their Work
• [When usual classroom behaviors spill over to become] Difficult behaviors in the Classroom
• Motivating Students: 8 Simple Rules

Week 11

• How to Keep Your Students Thinking
• Understanding Prejudice: Teaching Tips for College Instructors
• Defining and Avoiding Plagiarism: The WPA Statement on Best Practices

Week 12

• Going the Extra Mile
• Preventing and Detecting Plagiarism
• Writing Your First Letter of Recommendation

Week 13

• Techniques for Responding
• Better Endings: What to Do in the Last Day of Class

Week 14

• Constructing Effective Exams
• End of Semester Grading
• Better Endings: What to Do in the Last Day of Class

Week 15:

• Seven Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education – unabridged
• How to Design a Learner-Centered Syllabus
• Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education – Abridged

Archive for Research Articles

In the 2011-12 academic year, CTL began distributing short research articles on the scholarship of teaching and learning.  Our intention was to complement our store of ‘teaching wisdom’ in the form of our teaching tips archives. Some articles will present new ideas and theories that, at times, may challenge current pedagogy while others will summarize current thinking.  We hope that you enjoy them or, at least, find them interesting.

Spring 2012

• Week 1 – Lee, A., Williams, R., & Kilaberia, R. (August 2011). Engaging Diversity in First-Year College Classrooms.Innovative Higher Education, 1-15. doi: 10.1007/s10755-011-9195-7. Click here for article.

• Week 2 — Fralinger, B., & Owens, R. (2009). You Tube As A Learning Tool. Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 6(8), 15-28.  Click here for article.

• Week 3 — Chang, M. J., Eagan, M., Lin, M. H., & Hurtado, S. (2011). Considering the Impact of Racial Stigmas and Science Identity: Persistence Among Biomedical and Behavioral Science Aspirants. Journal Of Higher Education, 82(5), 564-596.  Click here for article.

• Week 4 — Blumberg, Phyllis.  (February 2009) Maximizing Learning Through Course Alignment and Experience with Different Types of Knowledge”.  Innovative Higher Education.  34:93–103. Click here for article.

• Week 5 — Cheesman, K. (2006). Using Comics in the Science Classroom. Journal Of College Science Teaching, 35(4), 48-51. Click here for article.

• Week 6 —  Nandan, M., & Scott, P. (2011). Service Learning And Community-Based Partnerships: A Model For Teaching Macro Practice Social Work. Journal Of College Teaching & Learning, 8(8), 25-37.  Click here for article.

• Week 7 — Craig, R., & Amernic, J. (2006). PowerPoint Presentation Technology and the Dynamics of Teaching. Innovative Higher Education, 31(3), 147-160. doi: 10.1007/s10755-006-9017-5.  Click here for article.

• Week 8 —   Olberding, Julie Cencula.  Does Student Philanthropy Work? A Study of Long-term Effects of the “Learning by Giving” Approach. Innovative Higher Education (15 June 2011), pp. 1-17.  Click here for article.

Fall 2011

• Week 1 — Arum, Richard, and Josipa Roksa. “Your so-called education.” New York Times 15 May 2011: 10(L). General OneFile. Web. 8 Jun. 2011. Click here for article.

• Week 2 — Braxton, J. M., Jones, W. A., Hirschy, A. S. and Hartley III, H. V. (2008), The role of active learning in college student persistence. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2008: 71–83. doi: 10.1002/tl.326.  Click here for article.

• Week 3 — Thayer-Bacon, Barbara. 2008. “Democracies-Always-in-the Making: Maxine Greene’s Influence.”  Educational Studies  (American Educational Studies  Association)  44, no. 3: 256-69. Education Full Text, WilsonWeb (accessed May 24, 2011).  Click here for article.

• Week 4 –Rettinger, David A., and Yair Kramer. 2009. “Situational and Personal Causes of Student Cheating.” Research in Higher Education 50, no. 3: 293-313. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed May 18, 2011).  Click here for article.

• Week 5 — Chi, Michelene T. H. “Commonsense Conceptions of Emergent Processes: Why Some Misconceptions Are Robust”.The Journal of the Learning Sciences Vol. 14, No. 2 (2005), pp. 161-199.  Click here for article.

• Week 6 — Butin, D.W. (2005).  “‘I Don’t Buy It’:  Student Resistance, Social Justice, and Identity Construction.” Inventio 7(1) – (no longer available online)
•  Week 7 — Freishtat, Richard L. and Jennifer A. Sandlin. 2010. “Shaping Youth Discourse About Technology: Technological Colonization, Manifest Destiny, and the Frontier Myth in Facebook’s Public Pedagogy.”   Educational Studies   (American Educational Studies Association)   46, no. 5: 503-23.  Click here for article.