Pedagogy: Methods, Styles, and Approaches
The Teaching and Learning Center
Active Learning
Case Methods
Clinical Teaching
Controversial Issues
Cooperative Learning
- Resources on Cooperative Learning, Group Work, and Teamwork, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, University of Michigan
- The Collaborative Learning Page of the NISE (National Institute for Science Education)
- The Cooperative Learning Center at the University of Minnesota
- Effective Strategies for Cooperative Learning, by Richard M. Felder and Rebecca Brent, North Carolina State University
- Enhancing Learning - and More! - Through Cooperative Learning, by Barbara J. Millis, IDEA Paper #38
- Cooperative Learning: Effective Teamwork for Engineering Classrooms. by Karl A. Smith, University of Minnesota
- The Collaborative Research Model: Student Learning Teams in Undergraduate Research, Teaching Effectiveness Program, University of Oregon
Discussion
- Discussion, Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning, Indiana University Bloomington
- The Dreaded Discussion: Ten Ways to Start, by Peter Frederick, Improving College and University Teaching, Vol 29, No. 3
- Traditional Teaching: Questioning & Discussion, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey
- Teaching Strategies: Discussion-based Teaching and Handling Controversial Discussions in the Classroom, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, University of Michigan
- Promoting Effective Classroom Participation, Centre for Teaching Excellence, University of Waterloo
Experiential Learning
The First Day
Group Work
- The Collaborative Research Model: Student Learning Team in Undergraduate Research, The Teaching and Learning Center, University of Oregon
- The Laboratory in Science Education: Foundations for the Twenty-First Century, Avi Horstein and Vincent N. Lunetta
- Team Work and Group Work, College of Engineering, University of Michigan
- Group Work Resources -
including exercises and templates for team-building activities, charters, and team review, Institute for Interactive Media and Learning, University of Technology Sydney
- Meeting Strategies to Help Prepare Students for Group Work (pdf), Centre for Teaching Excellence,
University of Waterloo, Canada
- Teaching in the Small Group Setting, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
- Turning Student Groups Into Effective Teams (pdf), Journal of Student Centered Learning, 2(1), 9-34 (2004)
- Collaborative Learning. From the National Institute for Science Education - College Level One: Innovations in Science, Math, Engineering, and Technology Education
- Effective Strategies for Cooperative Learning, by Richard Felder and Rebecca Brent. Journal of Cooperation & Collaboration in College Teaching, 10(2), 69-75 (2001). Tips on forming teams, dealing with dysfunctional teams, grading team assignments, and using cooperative learning in a distance learning environment.
Lectures
- Large Classes: A Teaching Guide, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Maryland
- Eight Steps to Active Lecturing, Lerner Centered Teaching website
- Lecturing Effectively in the University Classroom, Centre for Teaching Excellence, University of Waterloo
- Lecturing, Center for Teaching, Vanderbilt University
- Teaching Large Classes, Center for Instructional Development and Research, University of Washington
- General Teaching in a Large Lecture Classroom, Information Technology Services, The University of Iowa
Problem-Based Learning
- Problem Based Learning, Center for Teaching, Learning and Scholarship, Samford University
- IMSA PBLNetwork: Collaborative Inquiry in Action, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
- Problem Based Learning
Speaking of Teaching 11(1), from the Center for Teaching and Learning at Stanford University (2001)
- Problem-Based Learning
at the University of Delaware: "Problem-based learning (PBL) is an instructional method that challenges students to 'learn to learn,' working cooperatively in groups to seek solutions to real world problems ..."
- Problem-Based Learning in General Education at Samford University, by Claire H. Major, The Pennsylvania State University,
including information and resources for planning and assessing PBL courses, and access to copies of the newsletter PBL Insight
- Problem-Based Learning, Especially in the Context of Large Classes,
by Don Woods, McMaster University
Service Learning
- National Youth Leadership Council: What is Service Learning?
- Carnegie Perspectives "Service Learning in Undergraduate Education: Where is it Going?", by Tom Ehrlich, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
- Service Learning at the University of Michigan, Ginsberg Center
- Service Learning: Higher Education Sector Page by National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
- Service Learning and Faculty Development, Campus Compact
- 101 Ideas for Combining Service and Learning, Western New Mexico University
This site offers service-learning course ideas in fifteen different disciplines.
- Campus Compact
"Campus Compact is a national coalition of more than 900 college and university presidents committed to the civic purposes of higher education. To support this civic mission, Campus Compact promotes community service that develops students' citizenship skills and values, encourages partnerships between campuses and communities, and assists faculty who seek to integrate public and community engagement into their teaching and research..."
- Engineering Projects and Community Service (EPICS, Purdue University)
"Community service agencies are increasingly relying upon the delivery, coordination, accounting, and improvement of the services they provide. They need the help of people with strong technical backgrounds. Undergraduate students ... will be expected to work with people of many different backgrounds to identify and achieve goals. They need educational experiences that can help them develop these skills. The challenge is to bring these two groups together in a mutually beneficial way..."
Teaching Styles
