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.

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.

Class Discussions & Participation

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

Course Design

• 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.

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

• 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.