Welcome to the web site for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. This site supports the learning of students enrolled in the class, and may be a resource to others. Portions of this site are open to all; others are open only to members of the class. In general, student contributions are viewable only by members of the course.

• Announcements (Last announcement added October 11, 2000)
• New!!!: Try Professor's Assistant
• Syllabus - all of the basic information on the course, including a schedule.
• WebCT links
  • Main WebCT page (with icons)
  • Bulletin Board
  • Password Change
  • Mail (you might want to have your WebCT mail forwarded to the account you usually use)
• Summaries of in-class presentations and activities
  Summaries marked with the word "preliminary" are from last year. I'll be reviewing and, in all likelihood, revising them shortly before the relevant class. After class, I'll post the revised version here.
  • Trends in Higher Education
  • Principles of learning
  • What kind of teacher are you?
  • Bloom's Taxonomy and Behavioral Objectives
  • Planning (preliminary)
  • Tests
  • Legal and Ethical Issues (older version)
    • Copyright
    • Privacy
    • Accomodations
  • Lecturing (preliminary)
  • Cooperative and Collaborative Learning (preliminary)
  • Evaluating Teaching (preliminary)
  • Myths About Teaching (preliminary)
• Assignments
  • Constructing a personal philosophy of teaching
  • Syllabus Development
  • Assessment Development
  • Session Plan
  • Identification of Disciplinary Resources
    • Assignment Overview
    • Contribute a resource
    • View contributed resources
• Links (under constuction, of course)
  • National Center for Education Statistics An enormous collection of statistcs on US education from pre-kindergarten to postsecondary and beyond.
  • Teaching Tips from Honolulu Community College. Tips from many soucres organized into 16 categories (e.g., using questions effectively, the first day of class).
  • The University of Iowa Center for Teaching
• Miscellaneous
  • Who we are: A summary of class members' backgrounds.
• Our agreed-upon norms for discussion.