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Research-Based Principles for Designing Multimedia Instruction (Mayer, R.)
Explanation of research-based principles and their practical application.
Type: Chapter
Teaching and Learning Strategies Cognitively Based Learning Interventions
Resource table for teaching students in quarantine/isolation
The PDF document contains a table with links and resources to help your students to keep up with course academics during COVID-Related Absences.
Type: Reference
Student Success, Teaching and Learning in Special Circumstances
Resources for Teaching Online: Open Source Resources for Performance-Related Disciplines (Association for Theatre in Higher Education)
A clearinghouse public document for theatre and performance-related disciplines.
Type: Website
Teaching and Learning Strategies Studio and Performance (Online)
Respondus Lockdown Browser Faculty Overview
An introduction to the Respondus LockDown Browser, best practices, and instructions for using it.
Assessment and Feedback Academic Honesty, Canvas (MyCourses)
Respondus LockDown Browser: Student Overview
Respondus LockDown browser is a tool used by faculty when administering quizzes or tests through Canvas. This application uses several methods to…
Assessment and Feedback Academic Honesty, Canvas (MyCourses)
Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy and verbs (all domains)
Summary of the revised version of Bloom’s Taxonomy with verbs for writing learning objectives at all levels of the cognitive, affective, and…
Type: Reference
Course Design Backward Design, Objectives
Rubrics (DePaul University Teaching Commons)
Describes four types of rubrics (analytic, developmental, holistic, and checklists), gives examples and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of…
Type: Tutorial
Assessment and Feedback Formative Assessment, Grading, Rubrics and Checklists, Summative Assessment
Rubrics in Canvas
An overview of using rubrics in Canvas, including a video on how to construct a rubric.
Type: Tutorial
Assessment and Feedback Canvas (MyCourses), Formative Assessment, Grading, Rubrics and Checklists, Summative Assessment
Sample Discussion Board Rubric (Purdue University)
A rubric used to grade online discussion at Purdue, with examples of its use.
Type: Website
Assessment and Feedback, Teaching and Learning Strategies Discussion, Grading, Rubrics and Checklists
Selecting Assessment Types (University of Florida)
Four steps to creating learner-centered assessments: identify purpose, identify learning levels, select assessments, and build assessments. Includes…
Type: Website
Assessment and Feedback Exam Alternatives, Formative Assessment, Summative Assessment
Selecting value-added models for postsecondary institutional assessment (Steedle, J.T.)
The research presented here demonstrates how value-added models can be compared on three criteria: reliability, year-to-year consistency and…
Type: Article
Assessment and Feedback Summative Assessment, Value Added Assessment
Setting up and facilitating group work: Using cooperative learning groups effectively (Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching)
Features of informal and formal cooperative groups, a brief review of the underlying theory of group work and its effectiveness, and guidelines for…
Type: Website
Teaching and Learning Strategies Collaborative Learning
Seven Keys to Effective Feedback (Wiggins, G.)
Addresses two questions: (1) What is true feedback? (2) How can it improve learning?
Type: Article
Assessment and Feedback Feedback
Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education (Chickering and Gamson)
Seven principles for good practice for undergraduate education.
Type: Article
Teaching and Learning Strategies Active Learning, Authentic/Case/Project/Problem Based Learning
Sharpening Our Focus on Learning: The Rise of Competency-Based Approaches to Degree Completion (National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment)
Unifying concepts shared by different competency-based education programs, current competency-based models, and the national policy context that…
Type: Report
Assessment and Feedback Competency Based Assessment, Formative Assessment, Summative Assessment
Should Instructors Provide Students with Complete Notes? (Faculty Focus)
This article makes the case for providing students with partial, rather than complete, notes as a way of stimulating encoding and higher-level…
Type: Article
Teaching and Learning Strategies Active Learning, Cognitively Based Learning Interventions, Study Skills
Six Tips for Online Discussions (Brown University)
Six tips for successful online discussions.
Type: Website
Teaching and Learning Strategies Discussion
Small Group Teaching: Tutorials, Seminars and Beyond (Exley, K. and Dennick, R.)
Theory-based practical advice on small group teaching and examples of practice across disciplines. Topics addressed: foundations and dynamics of …
Type: Book
Teaching and Learning Strategies Collaborative Learning
Social Justice Educator Training | Community, Equity and Diversity (unh.edu)
A UNH workshop that provides training for UNH faculty, staff and graduate students in diversity awareness and social justice. The eight hour training…
Type: Website
Course Design Inclusive Teaching
Solutions for using a Whiteboard in a Concurrent Classroom (Zoom)
Suggestions for using the Zoom whiteboard.
Technologies for Teaching and Learning HyFlex (Concurrent), Virtual Whiteboard, Web Conferencing, Zoom