Teaching

WWW Links to Resources for Teaching Reasoning and Critical Thinking (http://www.acorn.net/lists-ht/occtiwww.html ) List of links fro the Akron Community Online Resource Network.

Teaching Tips (http://www.mcmaster.ca/cll/resources/teaching.tips/) Question and answer format from McMaster University Centre for Leadership in Learning. A Brief Summary of the Best Practices in

College Teaching (http://northonline.sccd.ctc.edu/eceprog/bstprac.htm ) Compiled by Tom Drummond, professor at North Seattle Community College. Bibliography included at the end.

Cut-and-Paste Plagiarism: Preventing, Detecting and Tracking Online Plagiarism (http://www.uregina.ca/tdc/CutPastePlagiarism.htm ) Tips from Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe for dealing with student plagiarism.

Evaluating Websites for Educational Uses: Bibliography and Checklist (http://www.unc.edu/cit/guides/irg-49.html ) The Center for Instructional Technology at the University of North Carolina has created a checklist of questions to ask when evaluating web sites. This site also includes a list of links to other web evaluation resources.

Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy (http://depts.washington.edu/ctpmail/index.html ) Includes publications and research on improving the quality of teaching and ways that community policymakers can support these efforts. The

Chronicle of Higher Education (http://chronicle.com/ ) Online full-text version; ask librarian for password. Print version available at Main library.

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Federal and State Agencies

U.S. Department of Education (http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml) Extensive site for current news, grants, legislation, research and statistics reports, and other educational resources. Also includes A-Z index of search topics (http://www.ed.gov/help/site/index/topics_az.jsp).

National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ ) Includes elementary, secondary, and postsecondary statistics plus new publications.

Tennessee Department of Education (http://www.state.tn.us/education/ )

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Distance Education

Distance Learning on the Net by Glen Hoyle (http://www.hoyle.com/ ) A directory of distance education websites arranged by topic.

Distance Education Clearinghouse (http://www.uwex.edu/disted/home.html ) This site is maintained by the University of Wisconsin. It includes links to news, programs, policies, technology, and research about distance education. Distance

Education at a Glance (http://www.uidaho.edu/eo/distglan.html ) Engineering Outreach at the University of Idaho has created a number of short guides on various distance education topics.

Distance-Educator.com (http://www.distance-educator.com/ ) Articles and news concerning distance education.

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Theory and Research

Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) (http://www.eric.ed.gov/ ) Education literature and resource database from the U.S. Department of Education.

Theory Into Practice Database (http://tip.psychology.org/ ) Database of fifty learning and instruction theories.

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Page last updated on 02/08/2007