Teaching and Learning Online Resources

The Internet offers a wealth of resources on different teaching methodologies, techniques, best practices, team-based learning, experiential learning, civic engagement, project-based learning, learning science (how people learn) and the Scholarship of Teaching. Below is a curated listing of some useful sites, many from well-established university teaching and learning centers, and beginning with our own Online Teaching Resources, which is specially aimed at helping faculty teach remotely and develop online courses.

The Chronicle of Higher Education offers a newsletter and podcast series, Re:Learning, for faculty in higher education.

James Lang published a wonderful series of articles on Small Changes in Teaching, e.g., what to do in the first five minutes of class, that can make a big impact on student learning.

Faculty Focus is a website and newsletter focused primarily on teaching with many free resources. The Teaching Professor blog puts teaching strategies and thoughts on teaching in your in-box each week.

The University of North Carolina Teaching and Learning Matters has an extensive selection of valuable podcasts and videos.

The Team-Based Learning Collaborative is made up of faculty dedicated to team-based learning strategies.

The University of Illinois Online Network provides excellent resources for online teaching and learning.

Carnegie Mellon University provides a searchable resource called "Solve a Teaching Problem." Select the issue you're facing and you'll receive a list of strategies to address it.

Vanderbilt University hosts Leading Lines, a series of podcasts on educational technology in higher education. Their Center for Teaching also has created over seventy-five teaching guides on topics that range from 'Collaborative Learning' to 'Feminist Pedagogy' to 'Grading Student Work' to 'Teaching Large Classes' to using 'Wikis'. Topics are listed in alphabetical order.

Rubistar offers a rubric builder for project-based learning.

New School recorded workshops:

Understanding and Supporting Our Chinese Students

Millenials: Understanding and Engaging Millennial Students

Other teaching resources:

Web guide: How to Create a Syllabus

Video: Audio Commenting on Student Work

Paper: Using Graphic Organizers to Improve Teaching and Learning

Podcast: TOPcast, online and blended teaching and teaching technology

Podcast: Teach Better, interviews with teachers in high ed about teaching

Podcast: Teaching in Higher Ed, on the art and science of facilitating learning

Podcast: Let's Talk Teaching, teaching methods and scholarship of teaching and learning