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Best Practices in College Teaching
A Brief Summary of the Best Practices in College Teaching, Intended to Challenge the Professional Development of All Teachers is a web resource page compiled by Tom Drummond of North Seattle Community College. These elements represent the broad range of effective actions teachers take, and requisite conditions teachers establish, to facilitate learning.

Beyond Bells and Whistles
A well-designed teaching model, using technology, has the ability to reach a variety of learning styles, leaving students with optimal retention and comprehension.The College of Charleston, SC explores the potential of the Web as a teaching tool on its website, "Beyond Bells and Whistles."

Calibrated Peer Review
Calibrated Peer Review (CPR)™ is a Web-based program that enables frequent writing assignments even in large classes with limited instructional resources. In fact, CPR can reduce the time an instructor now spends reading and assessing student writing. UW Madison is a registered user for this system

Cheathouse.com
“Leading the industry” since 1995, this web site doesn’t even pretend that its papers are to be used for reference purposes only. Cheathouse.com offers 50,000 student essays in over 130 categories, many of which are FREE.

Collegiate Development Network Inc.
The Collegiate Development Network Inc. invites you to review its Professional Resource Package of on-line publications, with free samples.

Deliberations on Teaching and Learning
A European resource for teaching and learning that contains plenty of information that instructors should find useful.

Example Essays.com
Do you worry about plagiarism on student papers and take-home essay tests? You’ll want to visit this web site, which offers more than 101,000 “example” essays for students to purchase as “references.”

ISSOTL: The International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
The Mission of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) is to foster cross-disciplinary and intercultural inquiry into the character, conditions, and possibilities for powerful learning and teaching at the post-secondary level and to disseminate application of these educational practices.

Journal on Excellence in College Teaching
The Journal on Excellence in College Teaching is a peer-reviewed journal published at Miami University by and for faculty at universities to increase student learning through effective teaching, interest in and enthusiasm for the profession of teaching, and communication among faculty about their classroom experiences. Individual electronic subscriptions are just $49 and include access to all issues.

MERLOT
MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) is a free and open resource designed to help higher education faculty in various disciplines enhance instruction with a continually growing collection of online learning materials, peer reviews and assignments.

Peer Review of Teaching

The National Teaching & Learning Forum
The National Teaching & Learning Forum on-line edition offers subscribers stimulating insight from colleagues eager to share new ways of helping students reach the highest levels of learning. Non-subscribers can view certain articles on-line. To view all articles, you can purchase a one-year subscription (6 issues) for only $49.

Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education
Here, the University of Delaware provides a brief summary of the Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education, based on a study supported by the AAHE, the Education Commission of States, and The Johnson Foundation.

Tomorrow’s Professor Listserv
Tomorrow’s Professor Listserv seeks to foster a diverse, world-wide teaching and learning ecology among its nearly 12,000 subscribers at over 500 institutions and organizations in 86 countries around the world. To date there have been over 800 postings under the following categories:Tomorrow's Academy, Tomorrow's Graduate Students and Post docs, Tomorrow's Academic Careers, Tomorrow's Teaching and Learning and Tomorrow's Research.

Tools for Teaching by Barbara Gross Davis
Tools for Teaching by Barbara Gross Davis is available at this web site for anyone to use. It “describes 49 teaching tools that cover both traditional practical tasks--writing a course syllabus, delivering an effective lecture--as well as newer, broader concerns such as responding to diversity on campus and coping with budget constraints.”