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

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://its.unc.edu/tl/guides/irg-49.php
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/
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/index.cfm
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 10/13/2009