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Teaching Learning Resources 


Profile of UWSP's 2009 Freshman Class
Learning Centered Syllabi
Assessment Resources
Active Learning
Collaborative Learning
Problem Based Learning
Social Networking
Diversity in the Classroom
Service Learning
Team Based Learning
Faculty Learning Communities
SOTL - Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
What You Need to Know About Teaching a First Year Seminar Workshop Streaming Video
NEW: Assessment Academy Streaming Video

Profile of UWSP's 2009 Freshman Class:

Shari Ellertson's Presentation slides

Link to Freshman Survey - College Student Characteristics Inventory (CSCI)


Learning Centered Syllabi:

Elements of a Learning-Centered Syllabus
http://ctl.byu.edu/home/tools/syllabus-builder/

Designing a Learning-Centered Syllabus
http://cte.udel.edu/instructional-topics/designing-courses/designing-learning-centered-syllabus.html

The Syllabus as a Tool for Learning
http://uwadmnweb.uwyo.edu/ctl/grads/syllabus.asp

The Promising Syllabus
http://www.bestteachersinstitute.org/promisingsyllabus.pdf

Building Student Engagement: The Syllabus
http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/best-practices-in-teaching/building-student-engagement-the-syllabus/

The Graphic Syllabus
http://www.sacscoc.org/2009sihandouts/Monday,%20July%2020,%202009/Nilson-Graphic%20Syllabus%20&%20Outcomes%20Map%201.pdf

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Assessment Resources

Dr. Paula DeHart's Powerpoint Presentation for the UWSP 14th Annual Teaching Conference

UWSP Library Books

Assessing for learning : building a sustainable commitment across the institution
Peggy L. Maki
Call Number:
LB2366.2 .M35 2004

Developing and implementing assessment of student learning outcomes
Andreea M. Serban, Jack Friedlander, editors
Call Number: LB2328 .D42 2004

General education and the assessment reform agenda
Peter Ewell
Call Number:
LB2361.5 .E94 2004

Introduction to rubrics : an assessment tool to save grading time, convey effective feedback, and promote student learning
Dannelle D. Stevens, Antonia Levi
Call Number:
LB3063 .S74 2005

Levels of assessment : from the student to the institution
Ross Miller

Making teaching and learning visible : course portfolios and the peer review of teaching
Daniel Bernstein ... [et al.]
Call Number: LB2333 .M27 2006

Assessing outcomes and improving achievement: tips and tools for using rubrics 
Edited by Terrel L. Rhodes
Call Number: LC1032 .A88 2010

Assessing the online learner : resources and strategies for faculty
Rena Palloff and Keith Pratt
Call Number: LC5803.C65 P34 2009

Knowing what students know: The science and design of educational assessment
National Research Council
Call Number: LB3051 .K59 2001

Beyond tests and quizzes: Creative assessments in the college classroom
Richard J. Mezeske, Barbara A. Mezeske, editors
Call Number: LB2368 .B49 2007

Assessing for learning: Building a sustainable commitment across the institution
Peggy L. Maki
Call Number: LB2366.2 .M35 2004

Coming to terms with student outcomes assessment: Faculty and administrators' journeys to integrating assessment in their work and institutional culture
Peggy L. Maki, editor
Call Number: LB2331.63 .C65 2010

Academically adrift: Limited learning on college campuses
Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa
Call Number: LA227.4 .A78 2011

Websites

National Academy for Academic Leadership - Concepts, Principles and Methods: http://www.thenationalacademy.org/readings/assessandeval.html

Student Learning Assessment in Higher Education: Understanding Where to Begin http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/educational-assessment/student-learning-assessment-in-higher-education-understanding-where-to-begin/

Outcomes Assessment Resources on the Web
http://www.tamu.edu/mars/assess/HTMLfiles/oabooks.html

Assessing the effectiveness of Problem Based Learning http://www.rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/mop4spr01.htm

Assessing Project Based Learning                               http://serc.carleton.edu/introgeo/assessment/project.html

The Case for Authentic Assessment 
http://pareonline.net/getvn.asp?v=2&n=2

Assessment Academy, October 8, 2010, Streaming Videos

      Part I
    http://www.uwsp.edu/media/admin/CAESE/AssessmentAcademy102010/part1.aspx
      Part II
    http://www.uwsp.edu/media/admin/CAESE/AssessmentAcademy102010/part2.aspx
      Part III
    http://www.uwsp.edu/media/admin/CAESE/AssessmentAcademy102010/part3.aspx
      Part IV
    http://www.uwsp.edu/media/admin/CAESE/AssessmentAcademy102010/part4.aspx

Assessment Academy, December 3, 2010, Streaming Videos

      Part I
      http://www.uwsp.edu/media/admin/CAESE/AssessmentAcademy120310/Part1.aspx

      Part II
         h
ttp://www.uwsp.edu/media/admin/CAESE/AssessmentAcademy120310/Part2.aspx

       

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Active Learning Articles

Active Learning in Small to Large Groups
     http://www.cs.duke.edu/~forbes/papers/fie2002.pdf

Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education
     http://learningcommons.evergreen.edu/pdf/fall1987.pdf

Active Learning: Creating Excitement in the Classroom
     http://www.ntlf.com/html/lib/bib/91-9dig.htm

A Self-Directed Guide to Designing Courses for Significant Learning
     http://trc.virginia.edu/Workshops/2004/Fink_Designing_Courses_2004.pdf

Innovation in Large Lectures - Teaching for Active Learning
     http://www.colorado.edu/MCDB/MCDB6440/DE-M_97.pdf

Active Learning
     http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/active.htm

Leading the Transition from Classrooms to Learning Spaces
     http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/NLI0447.pdf

Experiential Learning in Higher Education: Linking Classroom and Community
     http://www.ntlf.com/html/lib/bib/95-7dig.htm

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Collaborative Learning Resources Online

Encouraging the Use of Collaborative Learning in Higher Education
     http://home.capecod.net/~tpanitz/tedsarticles/encouragingcl.htm

Collaborative Learning: Group Work and Study Teams
     http://teaching.berkeley.edu/bgd/collaborative.html

Collaborative Learning: Reframing the Classroom
    http://faculty.valenciacc.edu/development2/curriculumSecure/cc_learning/Collaborative-_Learning_Reframing.htm

Cooperative Learning in Post Secondary Education: Implications from Social Psychology for Active Learning Experiences
     http://www.users.muohio.edu/shermalw/aera906.html

Cooperative Learning for Higher Education Faculty
     http://www.ntlf.com/html/lib/clhef_xrpt.htm

Specific group and Cooperative Learning Strategies
     http://muskingum.edu/~cal/database/general/group.html#Strategies

Guide for Busy Academics: Using Learning Outcomes to Design a Course and Assess Learning
     http://www.palatine.ac.uk/files/1013.pdf

The Case for Collaborative Learning
     http://media.wiley.com/product_data/excerpt/83/07879551/0787955183.pdf

Active/Collaborative Learning
      http://clte.asu.edu/active/fc_acl.pdf

Collaborative Learning Group Work and Study Teams
      http://teaching.berkeley.edu/bgd/collaborative.html

Building Blocks for Teams 
      http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/teams/

Encouraging the use of collaborative Learning in Higher Education 
      http://home.capecod.net/~tpanitz/tedsarticles/encouragingcl.htm          

Collaborative Learning Enhances Critical Thinking
    
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JTE/jte-v7n1/gokhale.jte-v7n1.html                                         

Online Collaboration for Learning: A Case Study of a Post Graduate University Course
     http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/proceedings/agostinho/paper.html

Group Projects and Group Grading: Work in Progress
    
http://www.evergreen.edu/washcenter/resources/acl/b5.html

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Problem-Based Learning Resources

For a brief history and the basic steps of problem based learning go to 
    
  http://www.edtech.vt.edu/edtech/id/models/powerpoint/pbl.pdf    

For an example problem, see pages 3-5 at
        http://philiphallinger.com/workshops/intro_pbl_case.pdf

The National Education Association-Higher Education website features an article explaining PBL and links to further resources
        http://www2.nea.org/he/advo02/advo1202/feature.html

Problem-Based Learning: An Introduction
By James Rhem

        http://www.ntlf.com/html/pi/9812/pbl_1.htm

Problem-Based Learning in Business Education: Curriculum Design and Implementation Issues
By John E. Stinson and Richard G. Milter
       http://www.ouwb.ohiou.edu/stinson/PBL.html

From the Stanford University Newsletter on Teaching
        http://www.stanford.edu/dept/CTL/cgi-bin/docs/newsletter/problem_based_learning.pdf

Also from Stanford
       http://www.stanford.edu/dept/CTL/Tomprof/index.shtml

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Social Networking

Social Media Revolution
            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIFYPQjYhv8&feature=player_embedded

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Diversity in the Classroom

UWSP Library Books

Between Barack and a hard place: Racism and white denial in the age of Obama 
Tim Wise
Call Number: E184.A1 W57 2009

Black picket fences: Privilege and peril among the Black middle class
Mary Patillo-McCoy
Call Number: F548.9.N4 P38 1999

Strangers to these shores: Race and ethnic relations in the United States
Vincent N. Parrillo
Call Number: E184.A1 P33 1990 

Understanding race and ethnic relations
Vincent N. Parrillo
Call Number: HT1521 .P37 2008

Understanding white privilege: Creating pathways to authentic relationships across race
Frances E. Kendall
Call Number: HT1575 .K456 2006

Multicultural course transformation in higher education: A broader truth
Ann Intilli Morey
Call Number: LB2361.5 .M85 1997

Courageous conversations about race: A field guide for achieving equity in schools
Glenn E. Singleton and Curtis Linton
Call Number: LC213.2 .S58 2006

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Service Learning

Service-learning in higher education: Concepts and practices
Barbara Jacoby and Associates
Call Number: LC220.5 .S4585 1996

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Team Based Learning

Team-based learning: A transformative use of small groups in college teaching
edited by Larry K. Michaelsen, Arletta Bauman Knight, L. Dee Fink
Call Number: LB1032 .T38 2004

Team-based Learning: Small group learning's next big step
Larry K. Michaelsen, Michael Sweet, Dean X. Parmelee, editors
Call Number: LB1032 .T39 2008

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Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL)

Academic portfolio: A practical guide to documenting teaching, research, and service
Peter Seldin and J. Elizabeth
Call Number: LB1029.P67 S45 2009

Optimizing teaching and learning: Practicing pedagogical research
Regan A. R. Gurung, Beth M. Schwartz
Call Number: LB2331 .G797 2009

Building faculty learning communities
Milton D. Cox, Laurie Richlin, editors
Call Number: LB2331.7 .B83 2004

What the best college teachers do
Ken Bain
Call Number: LB2331 .B34 2004

The missing professor: An academic mystery
Thomas B. Jones
Call Number: LB2331.66 .J66 2006

Creating interdisciplinary campus cultures
Julie Thompson Klein
Call Number: LB2361.5 .K54 2010

Optimizing teaching and learning: Practicing pedagogical research
Regan A. R. Gurung and Beth M. Schwatrz
Call Number: LB2331 .G797 2009

Rethinking faculty work: Higher education's strategic imperative
Judith M. Gappa, Ann E. Austin, Andrea G. Trice
Call Number: LB2331.72 .G55 2010

Guide to faculty development
Kay Gillespie, Douglas L. Robertson, and associates
Call Number: LB2331.72 .G55 2010

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What You Need to Know About Teaching a First Year Seminar Streaming Video

Part 1 - 20 minutes

https://www.uwsp.edu/media/secure/admin/CAESE/FirstYearSeminar042010/part1.aspx

Part 2 – 51 minutes

https://www.uwsp.edu/media/secure/admin/CAESE/FirstYearSeminar042010/part2.aspx

Part 3 – 46 minutes

https://www.uwsp.edu/media/secure/admin/CAESE/FirstYearSeminar042010/part3.aspx

Part 4 – 34 minutes

https://www.uwsp.edu/media/secure/admin/CAESE/FirstYearSeminar042010/part4.aspx


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Faculty Learning Communities

Building faculty learning communities
Milton D. Cox, Laurie Richlin, editors
Call Number: LB2331.7 .B83 2004