Education

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Minds Online is a concise, nontechnical guide for academic leaders and instructors who seek to advance learning in this changing environment, through a sound scientific understanding of how the human brain assimilates knowledge.

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Stephen D. Brookfield offers a very accessible guide to how faculty at any level and across all disciplines can improve their teaching. 

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Reports on a 2-year study conducted by the Committee on Developments in the Science of Learning.

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S.O.S. for Information Literacy is a dynamic web-based multimedia resource for educators that promises to make a significant contribution to enhancing the teaching of information literacy skills to students in K-16.

Assignment

Students will learn to identify where they might find school and community data; practice accessing this data; and create a school community data profile. Students will also be introduced to some of the problems of bias when looking at school and community data. For part one, student will find data for the high school they attended and the community they grew up in. In part two, students will collect the same data for a school in the community they will be working in over the course of the quarter.

Assignment

This annotated bibliography assignment has five different versions for five different groups of disciplines: arts, humanities, social analysis (social sciences), life and physical sciences, and quantitative reasoning. Each is meant to give students a way to identify and explore the key types of scholarly sources in those disciplinary categories; for example, to understand what is meant by a primary source in each category.

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Practice-focused newsletter with summations of SoTL findings, plus columns on “what works” for assignments and in-class teaching.

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A list of organizations, journals, and programs that offer support related to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in a particular discipline from Illinois State University.

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The Teaching Commons brings together high-quality open educational resources from leading colleges and universities.

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Information literacy resources for curriculum development are browsable by discipline, goal, and/or level.

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