Higher Education Resources

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A collection of teaching resources at institutions around the country

Harvard University - The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning
The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard University offers many resources for improving teaching. Check out their collection of tip sheets, which include 20 ways to make lecture notes more participatory.

Illinois State University - Center for the Advancement of Teaching
The Center for the Advancement of Teaching is a multipurpose, interdisciplinary unit dedicated to the advancement of teaching and student learning.

Indiana University
Indiana University has an online handbook for that serves as a teaching primer consisting of three sections: Preparing to Teach, Teaching Methods, and Creating a Positive Environment.

Iowa State University - Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching
Here, the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at Iowa State University offers a collection of papers that address typical issues in the college classroom. Most of them have been written as guides for faculty members; some have been prepared for a faculty member to share with students in a classroom.

Kansas State University IDEA papers
Kansas State University offers a web page full of 4-6 page articles, concerning a wide variety of Faculty Evaluation and Development issues, called IDEA papers.

New York University Center for Teaching Excellence
New York University Center for Teaching Excellence provides information on Student Ratings and the Evaluation of Teaching. They also have a collection of bibliographic resources for faculty on different topics related to teaching excellence.

North Carolina State University’s Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning
North Carolina State University’s Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning provides issues of its Emphasis: Teaching and Learning newsletter on-line.

Penn State University - The Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence
The Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence is a faculty resource for innovative teaching and learning at Penn State.

Portland State University - Center for Academic Excellence
Portland State University provides a list of various resources on classroom assessment techniques.

Stanford University - The Center for Teaching and Learning
Stanford University provides a series of newsletters entitled, "Speaking of Teaching," devoted to specific classroom strategies and challenges that can be downloaded as PDF files.

Syracuse University - Center for Support of Teaching and Learning
The Center for Support of Teaching and Learning supports teaching excellence and scholarly dialogue on the art and science of university teaching. The Center website has extensive resources to support of faculty professional development.

Vanderbilt University - Center for Teaching
A great teaching and learning web site from the Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University. The Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching is dedicated to fostering an environment where instructional excellence not only is a goal of individuals, but is truly "community property."

University of California-Berkeley
Ten ways to Make Your Teaching more Effective, provided by the UC-Berkeley.

University of California-Davis
The University of California-Davis offers a variety of printable on-line articles and publications addressing issues related to teaching and learning.

University of California-Irvine -Teaching, Learning & Technology Center
The Teaching, Learning & Technology Center at the University of California-Irvine has a Teaching Resources Guide with insights about and indicators of successful teaching.

University of Colorado - Denver’s "Nutshell Notes"
The University of Colorado-Denver’s on-line publication "Nutshell Notes" offers an array of topics on teaching and learning.

University of Iowa - Center for Teaching
The Center for Teaching at The University of Iowa provides an on-line version of the Teaching Goals Inventory that allows you to view your scores, complete with comparative scores from large samples, immediately.

University of Kansas - Center for Teaching Excellence
University of Kansas Center for Teaching Excellence offers a number of teaching and learning resources.

University of Michigan - Center for Research on Learning and Teaching
The Center for Research on Learning and Teaching at the University of Michigan offers on-line resources for multi-cultural teaching

University of North Florida - Office of Faculty Enhancement
On this web page, the Office of Faculty Enhancement at the University of North Florida examines a number of summative and formative classroom assessment techniques and identify whether they assess faculty teaching or student learning.

UNC-Wilmington’s Center for Teaching Excellence
The University of North Carolina at Wilmington also has an electronic journal called Effective Teaching. A number of other resources on teaching excellence are featured on this web site, which is also home to UNC-Wilmington’s Center for Teaching Excellence.

University of Oklahoma - Instructional Development Program
"Improving teaching to improve learning" is the motto of this organization. Master teacher Dee Fink is the director of IDP. There are many useful resources on this site, particularly helpful are the materials on course design.

University of Texas-Austin - Center for Teaching Effectiveness
The Center for Teaching Effectiveness at The University of Texas-Austin features a menu of teaching and learning resources for professors.

University of Washington
The University of Washington has collected resources, examples, insights from faculty, and stories from students in order to help members of the teaching community accomplish their goal of teaching more inclusively.