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Teaching and Learning Resources

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External linkLearning Theories can greatly enhance how we are able to connect with how students learn, and ultimately improving how well they are able to make conceptual connections.

External link Active Teaching Methods and Strategies provide engaging, participatory approaches to teaching and learning in every discpline to assist professors in creating an authentic, inquiry-based active environment.

External linkClassroom Assessmentis most appropriate when authentic and aligned with conceptual goals and expectations of what we hope our students can DO after instruction.

External linkClassroom Prepatory Sheets can assist in planning and tracking progress on engaging student learning.

External linkCritical Thinking can be accomplished through several models including Bloom’s Taxonomy; Inquiry; Fact-Opinion-Judgment; Triarchic Theory of Intelligence; and Multiple Intelligences.

External link Interactive Syllabican enhance a learning environment and provide supplemental, efficient learning material and tools for students of diverse background and learning styles.

Association of American Colleges and Universities is the leading national association concerned with the quality, vitality, and public standing of undergraduate liberal education.

Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching is a policy and research center whose charge is to do and perform all things necessary to encourage, uphold, and dignify the profession of the teacher and the cause of higher education.

POD Network is the principal organization connecting centers for teaching development across the country and internationally.

External link Teaching, Learning and Technology (TLT) Group's mission is to motivate and enable institutions and individuals to improve teaching and learning with technology, while helping them cope with continual change.

External link Duke Center for Instructional Technology is one of the premier centers for supporting teaching with technology in the country.

Georgetown Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship is very strong in support of the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL).

Portland State Center for Academic Excellence is an excellent example of a well-developed center for development of teaching and learning; a strong sense of how to integrate learning with civic engagement.

External link National Teaching and Learning Forum is a teaching and learning conversation among professionals discussing matters of real importance to them.

External link Learning Styles Site provides a number of approaches for thinking about learning styles of students and a number of instruments for helping identify learning styles.

External link Adjunct Nation provides tools, forums and support for faculty who are a critcal aspect of our learning environment.

External link Business Rubrics

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