Scholarship & External Resources
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Click here to go to the Digital Learning website.
Classroom Responses to Critical Incidents
- Responding to Critical Incidents
- Guidelines for Discussing Incidents of Hate, Bias, and Discrimination
- The Charlottesville Syllabus: Readings on the History of Hate in America
- American Anthropological Association: An Introductory Guide to Teaching about Race after Charlottesville
Course Evaluations
- NAP Sample Student Questionnaires
- Hativa SRI
- Mid-Semester Evaluation Sample
- Meta Analysis by Uttl, White, Gonzalez
- The Chronicle of Higher Education: We Make Tenure Decisions Unfairly. Here’s a Better Way
i-Gen or Generation Z
- The iGen Shift: Colleges Are Changing to Reach the Next Generation
- Kids These Days and iGen: two competing visions of what makes a millennial
- Gen Z Is Coming to Your Office. Get Ready to Adapt.
- Does Our Cultural Obsession With Safety Spell the Downfall of Democracy?
- Today’s College Students Aren’t Who You Think They Are
Inclusive Teaching
- Inclusive Teaching Guide Columbia
- Road to Global Citizenship Toolbook
- Inclusive Classrooms University of St. Thomas
- Inclusive Pedagogy Georgetown University
Integrative Learning
- A New Era in Learning-Community Work: Why the Pedagogy of Intentional Integration Matters
- Interrogating Integrative Learning
- Leading Initiatives for Integrative Learning
Mental Health and the Classroom
- Addressing Disruptive and Dangerous Behavior in the Classroom
- Supporting Students Facing Mental Health Challenges
- State of Mind in the College Classroom
- Pedagogical Approaches
- List of Works Cited and Additional Resources
Modes of Reading
- Being a Better Online Reader
- The Pen is Mightier Than the Keyboard: Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop Note Taking
- My Open Textbook: Pedagogy and Practice
- The Reading Brain in the Digital Age
- The Distracted Classroom
- The Case for Laptops in the Classroom
- Logged in and Zoned Out
- Don’t Ban Laptops in the Classroom
- Students Want a Say in Laptop Debate
Peer Observations
Bowen’s main ideas from his “Teaching Naked” book
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Inside Higher Ed: Source for news and opinion for all of higher education
Association of American Colleges and Universities
Tomorrow’s Professor eNewsletter
New Media Consortium Horizon Report
ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology
Michigan State University Academic Advancement Network
Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence at Carnegie Mellon offering resources on course design, technology and teaching, assessment and more.
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
MIT open course ware
The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative’s (ELI’s) 7 Things You Should Know About… series provides concise information on emerging learning technologies and related practices
The University of Iowa Teaching Goals Inventory – an easy-to-use, self-scoring instrument to help you think about your instructional goals
A collection of teaching and facilitation activities from educational developer Alice Cassid, Ph.D.
Guide to writing a philosophy of teaching statement from the Michael V. Drake Institute for Teaching and Learning at The Ohio State University.
A collection of links about Integrative Learning provided by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) and based on a workshop entitled “From the Academic Disconnect to Integrated Learning” by J. Elizabeth Clark
SoTL for Humanists: Issues and Illustrations
A listing of journals that publish the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and address general issues in higher education.
Hutchings, P., & Shulman, L.S. The Scholarship of Teaching: New Elaborations, New Developments. Note: This article was originally published in Change, September/October 1999. Volume 31, Number 5. Pages 10-15.
Overson, C. E., Hakala, C. M., Kordonowy, L. L., & Benassi, V. A. (Eds.). (2023). In their own words: What scholars and teachers want you to know about why and how to apply the science of learning in your academic setting. Society for the Teaching of Psychology.
Annotated Bibliography from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
The Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Carnegie Foundation gallery of SOTL projects
Comprehensive bibliography of SOTL
An article on disciplinary styles and SOTL
Pat Hutchings’ introduction to a book at case studies on SOTL
Inclusive Teaching Toolkit: Western Washington University, Center for Instructional Innovation and Assessment
Increasing inclusivity in the classroom: Vanderbilt University, Center for Teaching
Inclusive teaching at University of Washington
Inclusive teaching and resources from University of Michigan
Understanding Prejudice provides class exercises, teaching tips, sample assignments and lots of great links to resources on stereotypes and prejudice (organizations, projects, etc.)
Transparency in teaching and learning, as part of inclusive teaching for faculty development from TILT Higher Ed.
Blended and Flipped: Exploring New Models for Effective Teaching & Learning
Examples of blended learning courses developed at liberal arts colleges as part of a Next Generation Learning Challenges grant
Flipping Your Course: Material from Center for Teaching Excellence, Endicott College
Doug Holton’s resources
Resources on Service Learning on the Campus Compact website
Muhlenberg College Office of Community Engagement
The National Service-Learning Clearinghouse has many resources for service-learning such as syllabus, links to specific topics, listservs, service learning materials
Mark Cooper’s Guide to Service Learning. Has information on liability, how to involve faculty, reflection, and planning service projects
RAND report on service learning in higher education
A model for evaluating student performance in a service learning course
American Psychological Association website has principles of good practice and a summary of references on the effectiveness of service learning
Direct access to case studies in ethics
Resources for teaching with case studies
Harvard case studies in public policy and management
Links to general resources on assessment
Download AAC&U VALUE rubrics focused on 15 different learning outcomes
Resources for assessment in mathematics
Resources for conducting program reviews. Not just relevant to psychology
