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Welcome to Our New Website

I am happy to welcome you to CRLT’s wonderful new website. This new site will still feature the enormous range of information and ideas that instructors are accustomed to finding at crlt.umich.edu, but it has been reorganized to enable you to locate and navigate those resources more easily. We have added several exciting new elements, including this blog, which currently highlights our teaching orientations and strategies for the first days of class. Throughout the academic year, our blog will include regular faculty profiles that highlight some of the excellent and innovative teaching taking place all around us at U-M. To stay up-to-date with the latest from CRLT, you can follow us on Twitter (@UMich_CRLT) or subscribe to the blog.

We’d appreciate your feedback about what you like, what you miss, and what we can do to make the site even more user friendly. Please let us know what you think by commenting below or sending an email to crltwebteam@umich.edu. We hope you’ll return regularly to see what’s new, browse the site, and take full advantage of the Center’s offerings for supporting excellent teaching at U-M!

Constance E. Cook
Associate Vice Provost and Executive Director
Center for Research on Learning and Teaching

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Submitted by cecook on Wed, 09/05/2012 - 3:45pm

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Resources for the First Days of Teaching

What are effective ways to get to know students and create a positive learning environment from the very beginning of the term? How can you pique students' curiosity about the subject matter? How can you set student expectations for active engagement in the course?

These are common questions we hear about the first days of class, an important time for setting the tone for what is to come. CRLT offers a set of resources to help faculty and GSIs think carefully about getting the most out of the first days. The links in this section provide a wide range of resources, including tips on learning student names, activities for building community, and suggestions for ways to introduce course material and communicate expectations.

The sections on course design and syllabus design offer additional links to sites that can help with last minute course planning. CRLT consultants are also available to work one-on-one with instructors. If you have interesting activities or resources for the first days of your class, please share them in the comments section.

Submitted by mlkaplan on Mon, 08/20/2012 - 4:48pm

Cooperative Learning: Humanities

Stevahn, L. (2004). Integrating conflict resolution training into the curriculum. Theory Into Practice 43(1), 50-58.
Walker, A.J. (1996). Cooperative learning in the college classroom. Family Relations, 45(3), 327-335.

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Cooperative Learning: Engineering

Carlson, L.E., & Sullivan, J.F. (1999). Hands-on engineering: Learning by doing in the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program International. Journal of Engineering Education, 15(1), 20-31
Dietrich, S.W. (n.d.). Getting started with cooperative learning in the engineering classroom.
Catalano, G.D., & Catalano, K.C. 1997) Transformation from teacher-centered to student-centered engineering education. Proceedings the 1997 Frontiers in Engineering Education Conference, ASEE/IEEE, November 1997.
Felder, R.M. (1995 Cooperative learning in a sequence of engineering courses: A success story. Cooperative Learning and College Teaching, 5(2), 10-13.
Felder, R.M., & Brent, R. (1994). Cooperative learning in technical courses: Procedures, pitfalls, and payoffs. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service ED 377038)

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Effectiveness of Cooperative Learning, Group Work, and Team Work

Bowen, C. (2000). A quantitative literature review of cooperative learning effects on high school and college chemistry achievement. Jorunal of Chemical Education, 77(1), 116-119.
Cockrell, K.S., Caplow, J.A.H., & Donaldson, J.F. (2000). A Context for Learning: Collaborative Groups in the Problem-Based Learning Environment. The Review of Higher Education, 23(3), 347-363.
Crouch, C.H., & Mazur, E. (2001). Peer instruction: Ten years of experience and results, American Journal of Physics, 69(9), 970-977l
Green, N. (n.d.). What the research says aybout cooperative learning.
Johnson, D.W., Johnson, R.T., & Smith, Karl A. (1998). Cooperative leaning returns to college: What evidence is there that it works? Change 30(4), 26-35.

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