Documentation:Effective Teaching

This wiki provides resources on teaching techniques and best practices in course design. Feel free to add other resources and provide a brief comment on its usability.

Effective Teaching

 * Effective Teaching: Excellent resource that discusses teaching mistakes, course design, effective lectures, and student problems.


 * Using Active Learning Instructional Strategies to Create Excitement and Enhance Learning: Article with helpful strategies for active teaching/learning.


 * Classroom Activities: Tips for teaching large groups and planning varied lessons.

Participation in Large Group Presentations]: Great tips for facilitating engaging and interactive classes.
 * [http://med.ubc.ca/files/2012/03/Interactive-Lecturing-Strategies.pdf/ Interactive Lecturing: Strategies for Increasing


 * Muddiest Point in the Lecture: Using student feedback cards at the end of the lecture


 * Quickwrite: Strategy for student feedback.


 * Teaching Strategies: Guide to activities and strategies such as flipping the classroom, team-based learning, case studies, etc.


 * Teaching Large Classes

Student-Centred Learning

 * CFT Teaching Guides: This site has fantastic resources on learning styles, motivating students, using technology, cooperative learning, and so much more!


 * Index of Learning Styles: Online test to measure learning preferences.


 * Enhancing Student Learning: Seven Principles for Good Practice: Great resource from Winona State University


 * UoT Course Design: great resources from University of Toronto


 * Development Guides: Great guides from VCC on learning outcomes, rubrics, blogs, eportfolios, and more.


 * Culturally Diverse Learners: Videos on Culturally Diverse Students

Class Discussions & Participation

 * Grading Participation: Article on how to grade students class participation

Course Design

 * Course Outline Guide: Comprehensive guide from Niagara College.
 * Teaching/Design Methods: This teaching handbook has helpful hints about course design, discussions, group work, technology, etc.


 * CMU Instructional Strategies: Another great resource for teaching/design tips.


 * Guide to Course Design

Learning Outcomes

 * Writing Learning Outcomes: An excellent guide from BCIT


 * Bloom's Taxonomy: Good to send SMEs for developing learning outcomes and assessments.

Assessment

 * Overview and Outcomes
 * Assessment for Learning
 * Formative Feedback
 * Rubrics
 * Formative Assessment Ideas
 * Summative Assessment Ideas
 * Clinical Rubric


 * [http://eddev.niagaracollege.ca/content/Portals/35/NiagaraCollege/pdf/Evaluation%20Guide%20Fall%202013%20v.1%20Final.pdf Evaluation Guide: Assessment Guide from Niagara College
 * Student Workload Calculator: This is helpful for determining how long it takes to do certain assignments

Tests/Exams

 * Developing Written Tests


 * Exam questions: types, characteristics, and suggestions


 * Writing Good Multiple Choice Test Questions


 * How to Prepare Better Multiple-Choice Test Items

Quizzes

 * Blubbr: Create and play quiz games from YouTube videos. http://www.blubbr.tv/

Rubrics

 * Rubric links: Many links from Michigan State University.


 * Using Rubrics: links from Cornell


 * Sample Rubrics: from different universities


 * Evaluating Multimedia Presentations: article with key points and rubric suggestions.

Educational Technology

 * Technology solutions: Interesting approaches to common problems of class participation, giving feedback, boring lectures, etc.

Blended Learning & Flipped Classrooms

 * Blended Learning: Explanation and resources from the University of Waterloo.


 * Flipped Classroom: Teaching tips for flipping your classroom.

Social Media

 * Engaging Higher Education Students Using Twitter:

Digital Tools

 * It’s Not About the Tools. It’s About the Skills: An interesting article focusing on the skills acquired through creating wikis, blogs, podcasts, etc.


 * The “All-Time” Best Resources For Educators]: A list of resources for videos, visualizations, games, ESL ideas, technology, writing, and much more.

Presentations

 * 27 Presentation Tips For Students And Teachers

TRU-OL Resources

 * Digital Toolbox: Great links for communication, collaboration, and creative assignments using technology


 * Instructional Design Resources: Instructional Design for online courses.