CITLS

We need to grow our library! If you have suggestions for books, journals, or other resources we should have on our shelves, please send those suggestions to Alan or Simona. If you know of links or Internet resources we should have linked on our webpages, please send those to us as well. We need your suggestions!  Thanks.

ONLINE TEACHING RESOURCES

Useful links:

• Using “Clickers” – A very complete list of articles on the use of “clickers” (student response systems) in a variety of classroom settings and disciplines.
• Ken Bain’s Resource Page – An extensive list of teaching resources complied by Ken Bain, author of What the Best Teachers Do. If it has to do with college teaching, it is probably here.
• EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) – A comprehensive range of information on emerging learning practices and learning technologies.
• Association of American Colleges and Universities – An excellent source of information on undergraduate curricular change, how colleges are changing to meet the needs of the new global economy, general education reform, student learning outcomes assessment, diversity in higher education, and global issues in higher education.
• Team-based Learning – A 12-minute video explaining the process of Team-based Learning (TBL) as developed and used at the University of Texas–Austin. Includes statements from faculty and students, and the process is demonstrated in large classes with fixed seating. An address is given to obtain more information.

Electronic journals:

• Journals in Higher Education (JIHE) – A database of 600 multi-disciplinary and international journals with a special focus on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.
• Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning – A peer- reviewed journal that promotes SoTL investigations that are theory-based and supported by evidence. JoSoTL’s objective is to publish articles that promote effective practice in teaching and learning and add to the knowledge base.
• International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning – An open, peer-reviewed, international, electronic journal published twice a year by the Center for Excellence in Teaching at Georgia Southern University to be an international vehicle for articles, essays, and discussions about the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) and its applications in higher/tertiary education today.
• Transformative Dialogues: Teaching and Learning Journal – A forum for conversations intended to foster the improvement of adult teaching and learning. TD facilitates the multidisciplinary exchange of ideas, actions, and results of innovative and professional practice in the scholarship of teaching and learning.
• Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture – An innovative journal that aims to build a new discourse around teaching in English studies.
• InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching – A free scholarly journal published annually by the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) at Park University.
• The College Quarterly – A Canadian academic journal focused on colleges in Canada but developed to serve the common needs of college educators in North America and worldwide.
• The Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning – A peer-reviewed scholarly journal that publishes relevant information about problem based learning pedagogy. It is the first and only journal of its kind.
• Inside Higher Ed – A free online source for news, opinions, and jobs for all higher education.
• Arts & Letters Daily – Daily report of news in art and literature. Includes review of new books, essays, and articles.

Electronic articles:

• Matching Teaching Style to Learning Style May Not Help Students – Chronicle article (2009) summarizing psychological research on how students learn.
• Brave New eWorld–The Lafayette College World Languages Portfolio Initiative – A Lafayette newsletter article (Foreign Languages & Literatures, Fall 2009) about the use of e-Portfolio in a language course.
• Collaborative Learning: Group Work and Study Teams – Chapter piece from the hard copy of Barbara Gross Davis’s classic book Tools for Teaching. A copy of this book is available at the center.

BOOKS IN THE CITLS LIBRARY

• To access the current list of books available at the Center, please click here.

LIBRARY

• Films on Demand – A database of streaming videos that includes documentaries and educational films.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Moodle is a course management system that provides an online space for you and your students to communicate. It has capabilities for uploading files, submitting assignments, keeping a gradebook and emailing all or select members of the class, in addition to offering discussion and collaboration activities.

Cmap Tools is a software suite that facilitates the collaborative construction, sharing, and publishing of knowledge models represented as concept maps. Cmap Tools is used worldwide by millions of users and is available in over 15 languages. The software runs on all hardware/software platforms (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, etc.) and is available for free download.

WordPress is an online content management system that provides an easier way to create and maintain your personal website, professional vitae, or research and course information. This system is also used for class blogging and web projects. Additional information is available on the Website Accounts page of the ITS website.

Lafayette’s iTunesU to distribute self-created audio and video content to students.