Strategies

U.S. History

Common-place: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life
http://www.common-place.org/

This website provides essays, documents, and other resources for teaching about American history prior to 1900.

History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/

This website offers a variety of resources, including syllabi, teaching tips, and examples of student projects, for instructors teaching U.S. history courses.

The National Council for History Education
http://www.nche.net/

This website provides links to museums, galleries, archives, networks, and other resources that may be useful for teaching U.S. history.

Documenting the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
http://docsouth.unc.edu/index.html Read more »

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Learning Theories

There is a variety of research about student motivation and how students process information. The links in this section offer short overviews of various aspects of this research and how it can be applied to instruction.

Theory and Research-Based Principles of Learning

A list of seven basic principles that underlie effective learning. These principles are distilled from research from a variety of disciplines.

Teaching Principles

A list of seven principles designed to make teaching both more effective and more efficient, by helping instructors create the conditions that support student learning.

Instructional Design, Theory in Practice

This site contains a vast array of basic information about learning theory.

Index of Learning Theories and Models

Provides an overview of major learning theories and models, organized by paradigm (behaviorism, cognitivism, constructivism, humanism, and others)

Learning Partnerships Model: Promoting self-authorship to promote liberal education (Baxter Magolda, 2009) Read more »

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Medicine

Medical Education Links
http://www.sdrme.org/links.asp

The page offers links to medical associations and education organizations.

Medical Education Web Resources
http://www.bumc.bu.edu/fd/online-medical-educational-resources/

The page lists various resources on medical education, including teaching journals, medical education website, teaching resources, and new technical innovation in education.

Medical education, Internet resources, medical libraries
http://www.gfmer.ch/Medical_journals/Medical_education_Internet_resource...

The page offers links to free medical journals, medical education, Internet resources, and medical libraries.  This is part of Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research website (http://www.gfmer.ch/000_Homepage_En.htm).

Medical Education Online
http://www.med-ed-online.org/resource.htm

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Learning Styles

 

Understanding both students’ learning preferences and one’s own teaching style can greatly enhance any course. The links in this section provide inventories on teaching styles, learning styles, and “multiple intelligences.”

Felder-Silverman model: Links to Web Articles and a Learning Styles Inventory
The Index of Learning Styles (ILS) is an on-line instrument used to assess preferences on four dimensions (active/reflective, sensing/intuitive, visual/verbal, and sequential/global) of a learning style model formulated by Richard M. Felder and Linda K. Silverman.

Student Learning Styles and Their Implications for Teaching (Montgomery & Groat, 1998)
All faculty members, regardless of discipline, can put an understanding of learning styles to good use in their own teaching. Provides an overview and comparison of three major learning styles models (Myers-Briggs, Kolb, and Felder-Silverman).

Learning Style Can Become Learning Strategies (Mckeachie, 1995, University of Michigan)
Regardless of their learning “styles,” students can learn strategies that enable them to be effective when taught by methods that are not compatible with their preferred “style.” Read more »

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Teaching Strategies: Large Classes and Lectures

Eliciting participation, questions, and even attention from a sea of faces in a large lecture hall can be a difficult task. Instructors often seek ways to make large classes feel smaller. The links in this section provide information about classroom management techniques, suggestions for effective lecturing, and a list of additional resources and articles about large classes.

Large Classes

Suggestions for Large Classes (UC Berkeley, 1983)

List of over 35 good practices for improving the instruction of freshmen and sophomores in traditional lecture and discussion courses.

Tips for Using Questions in Large Classes (Klionsky, 1999)

Short first-person account from an introductory biology course with a class enrollment of about 300 who shares some of his techniques for engaging the class.

Teaching Large Classes

Collection of PDFs from Pennsylvania State University addressing a number of issues related to teaching large classes including sections on frequently asked questions about large classes, and large class resources.

Large Classes: A Teaching Guide Read more »

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