Teaching & Learning Links
- Intro
- Teaching Elements
- Teaching Methods
- Teaching Issues
- Centers
The listed links to websites on teaching and learning can help you design new sections or courses, prepare for classroom interaction, or add new material to existing sections or courses. The links are organized by topic, and often by discipline, to help you navigate more easily. Please contact the Center at 847-467-2338 or teach@northwestern.edu if you would like additional help on how to incorporate ideas from these sites into your sections or courses. To report inactive links or to suggest other links, please e-mail us.
- Teaching for Learning
- Preparing to Teach
- Assessing Learning
- Evaluating Teaching
- Discipline-Specific Resources
Teaching for Learning
- How People Learn (National Science Foundation)
- Educator's Reference Desk (ERIC)
- Global Campus
- The Active Learning Site: Research Summaries
Preparing To Teach
- Planning a Course
- Course Design
- Conceptual Understanding
- Explaining Clearly
- Making Sure Your Students Understand You
- 101 Things You Can Do in the First 3 Weeks of Class
- Tips for First-Time Teachers
- The First Day of Class
- Getting to Know Your Students
- Learning Students' Names
Assessing Learning
Evaluating Teaching
Discipline-Specific Resources
- Disciplinary Resources (Center for Research on Learning & Teaching)
- Educational Materials-Lesson Plans & Curriculum Units
- Higher Education Academy (Resources by Discipline)
- Anthropology
- Art
- Astronomy
- Beyond Biology 101: Transforming Undergraduate Biology Education
- Biological Sciences (everything from zoology to anatomy to neurobiology)
- Chemistry
- Communications
- Economics
- Engineering
- Engineering Case Studies
- Engineering & Science Education Resources
- Writing Engineering Cases
- History
- What Happens When Students Read Multiple Source Documents in History?
- Languages
- Literature
- Mathematics
- Mathematics Applications Across the Curriculum
- Math Archives
- Medicine
- Music
- Performing Arts
- Physics
- Physics: The Interactive Textbook 98
- Political Science
- Political Science Syllabi
- Psychology
- Science (Includes Chemistry, Life Science, Earth Science, Physics)
- Doing Science
- Innovative Science Teaching Techniques
- International Affairs
- Sociology
- Sociology Cases Database Project
- Statistics
- Basic Methods
- Teaching with Technology
- Teaching with Case Studies
- Problem-Based Learning
- Online Simulations
Basic Methods
- Active Learning
- Collaborative Learning
- Critical Thinking
- Distinguishing Scholarly Journals from Other Periodicals
- Service Learning Resources
- National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
- Science Teaching Reconsidered
- Teaching Strategies
- Writing Lit Reviews
- Writing in College
Teaching with Technology
- Computers in Teaching and Learning
- Instructional Technology Connections
- The Masie Center: The Technology and Learning Thinktank
- Campus Technology
- The TLT Group
- The World Lecture Hall: Examples of faculty websites
Teaching with Case Studies
- General: On Using Cases
- Bioethics Cases
- Biology Cases
- Business Cases
- More Business Cases
- Economics Cases
- Education/Business/Science/Political Science Cases
- Engineering Cases
- Engineering Ethics Cases
- Environmental Cases
- Environmental Problem-Solving Cases
- Statistics Cases
- Science & Social Science Cases
Problem-based Learning (PBL)
- Introduction to PBL
- Overview of PBL
- More PBL resources
- Problem Based Learning Initiative
- PBL in Biology
- PBL in Medicine
- Sample Problems (Different Disciplines)
Online Simulations
Classroom Dynamics
- 101 Things You Can Do in the First 3 Weeks of Class
- Active Learning
- Art of Questioning
- Challenging Students to Learn
- Dealing with Difficult Behaviors
- Effective Techniques of Questioning
- Encouraging Class Discussion
- First Day of Class
- Getting to Know Your Students
- Using Questions Effectively
Presentation Skills
- On Classroom Communication
- On Using your Voice Effectively
- On Effectively Organizing a Presentation/Lecture
- On Using the Chalkboard
- On Summarizing main points
For International TAs
- On American Cultural History
- American Cultural Customs
- Common English Errors
- ESL (English as a Second Language) Café
- ESL Cyber Listening Lab
- English Idioms & Quizzes
- Idiom of the Day
- Tips for International TAs
Higher Education
- University at Albany
- Arizona State University
- Bristol Community College
- Brown University
- University of California, Los Angeles
- University of California, San Diego
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- University of Delaware (Institute for Transforming Undergraduate Education)
- Center for Excellence in Teaching at Georgia Southern University
- Harvard University
- Illinois State University
- Indiana State University
- Iowa State University
- University of Kansas
- Kansas State University
- MIT (The Center for Biological and Computational Learning)
- University of Michigan
- Michigan Tech University
- University of New Hampshire
- New York University
- University of North Carolina at Wilmington
- North Georgia College & State University
- Ohio State University
- University of Oregon
- Penn State University
- Portland State University
- Stanford University
- University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
- University of Texas at Austin
- University of Notre Dame
- Queen's University, Canada
- University of Virginia
- Virginia Commonwealth University
- University of Wyoming
- International Teaching Centers
