On this page you will find links to miscellaneous teaching enhancement websites. The links are arranged by topic. To report broken links, send an e-mail message to Michael Marks.
Education Associations
The American Association for Higher Education
Online Services for Faculty
FacultyOnline.com FacultyOnline gives college faculty access to textbook information, including lists of top-selling titles by course and discipline; textbook reviews; book-in-use data; new title information; discussion forums; and a course materials information exchange. FacultyOnline is a service of Monument Information Resource (MIR), the source of critical market information for the college publishing industry.
Kelley CourseWorks, developed by Technology Services in Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, is a comprehensive class web template. Based in Lotus Notes, Kelley CourseWorks enables instructors to quickly and easily set up a course web page, using their existing course material and without requiring knowledge of HTML. Kelley CourseWorks makes cutting-edge web technology available to all instructors.
Merlot.org MERLOT is a collection of high quality interactive online learning materials, assignments, reviews, and people.
The Teaching Goals Inventory, from the University of Iowa's Center for Teaching. This is an on-line questionaire that allows you to take inventory of your teaching goals, and provides tips on how to improve your teaching according to your individual responses.
Tomorrow's Professor Listserve (at Stanford University), an e-mail discussion list on various topics related to teaching.
Identifying Plagiarism
Plagiarism database maintained by Sharon Stoerger, MLS, MBA at web-miner.com.
Plagiarism resource page from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
How to identify plagiarism. A comprehensive website maintained by Prof. Bruce Leland (English), Western Illinois University.
FindSame.com Type in a sentence or excerpt, and this search engine will search for ducuments on the web containing the excerpt.
How to Create a Teaching Portfolio
Creating a Teaching Portfolio, from the University of New Hampshire's Future Faculty Program.
"The Teaching Portfolio: Definition, Purposes, and Form," from Rutgers University's Teaching Excellence Center
"What is a Teaching Portfolio?," from The Teacher's Web
"Teaching Portfolios," from Iowa State University's Center for Teaching Excellence
Service Learning
The Big Dummy's Guide to Service Learning, developed by Mark Cooper, Florida International University
The Service Learning Home Page
National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, located at the University of Minnesota.
Instructional Technology
Learning Technologies Newsstand, from the Human Resources Development Canada's Office of Learning Technologies. Updated articles on learning technologies.
"Teaching with Electronic Technology," from Prof. Michael L. Hall (University of Maryland).
"Developments in Internet-Based Instruction," by Rachel Smith at Sonoma State University.
The Technology Source (at the University of North Carolina). Information on utilizing technology in the classroom.
"The Paperless Classroom: Myth or Reality?," by Katie Livingston. Published in the Athena Insider, MIT's online computing magazine.
Faculty Reflections on Teaching
"Ethical Principles in University Teaching," from the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education at the University of Manitoba.
Excerpts from Reflections on Teaching: Personal Essays on the Scholarship of Teaching (edited by J. Jenry Morsman IV, William B. McAllister, and Marva A. Barnett), published by the University of Virginia's Teaching Resource Center.
"10 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me About College Teaching," by Lee F. Seidel, Director of the University of New Hampshire's Teaching Excellence Program.