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Teaching and Learning

D R A F T   Initiated 6/14/07  Updated 08/03/11

Purpose:

• A pseudo-random collection of materials on Teaching and Learning
• Be careful as protection in the world of ideas is required

• Phil Greenspun - Teaching - blog - wiki
  • Universities and Economic Growth
• Tom Magliozzi - Car Talk - The Education Forum Part I - Part II - wiki
  • Education: The learning of skills we will never need?
  • The New Theory of Learning

• Teacher Resources - Mathematics (free on-line, registration required)
  • Against All Odds: Inside Statistics
  • Private Universe Project in Mathematics
Autodidactic Press Center for the Study of Learning - Georgetown Medical Center Educause Review
• The Psychology of Learning Environment 41(6):60-75, 2006 html pdf
• The Future of Higher Education 41(4):72-73, 2006 html pdf
• Design of the Learning Space: Learning and Design Principles 40(4):16-28, 2005 html pdf
for students:
• Csíkszentmihályi,  Mihaly - wiki
  • flow -  wiki - TED
• Cornell Note-taking method
  • Geek to Live: Take study-worthy lecture notes (Lifehacker blog 9/22/06)
  • BYU Learning Strategies -   version
  • Temple U
• Guide to Success in College - Penn State U
• How to Study (RC Blue) site2
• How to Study: A Brief Guide (WJ Rapaport, SUNY - regularly updated)
• HowToStudy.org
  • resources
• Learning (Your First Job) R Leamnson - pdf   docstoc  doc
• MedStudySites.com (each subject has a specific "How to Study" guide)
• memorization
  • jMemorize
  • No-Fail Flashcard Study Technique (Persistence Unlimited, 7/6/06)
  • SuperMemo: speed learning technology
  • Teach2000
• Newport, Cal
• The PQRST Method of Studying
• Study Guides and Strategies
• The Science of Studying Effectively: Bjork's Seven Study Techniques (on-line slide presentation) (local handout pdf)
• The Study Skills Help Page: Learning strategies for success (Carolyn Hopper, Middle Tennessee State U)
• The Value of Learning About Learning (J Cross, C Quinn Meta-Learning Lab) Scribd  pdf
• What Smart Students Know, 1993 (A Robinson)  -  Amazon
  • booknotes (printable) - MineZone Wiki
  • mindmapped - The Mindmap Blog
• Willingham, Daniel T. - Cognitive psychology informing education - Psychologist, U Virginia
  • How we learn
    • Allocating Student Study Time
    • How (prior) Knowledge helps
    • Practice Makes Perfect-- But Only If You Practice Beyond the Point of Perfection
    • Students remember - What they think about
    • Why Students Think They Understand When they Don't
    • What Will Improve a Student's Memory? (American Educator, Winter 2008-09, 17-25, 29 pdf)
• Wirth, Karl, Geology prof, Macalester College - curricular materials
  • Learning to Learn (doc pdf)
• books with general advice for undergraduates (buyer beware; this is not an endorsement):
  • 10 Things Employers Want You to Learn in College: The Know-How You Need to Succeed (William D. Coplin, 2003) - Amazon
    • author's guide - pdf
  • How to Become a Straight-A Student: The Unconventional Strategies Real College Students Use to Score High While Studying Less (Cal Newport, ) - Amazon
  • Major in Success: Make College Easier, Fire Up Your Dreams, and Get a Great Job, 5th ed. (Patrick Combs, 2007) - Amazon
• blogs:
  • lifehack
    • 10 Skills You Need to Succeed at Almost Anything (6/30/08)
    • Are You a Productive Reader? (5/23/08)
  • seth godin's blog
    • How to read a business book (5/21/08)
  • Study Hacks (Cal Newport)
    • The Roberts Method: A professor’s advice for falling in love with your major (11/3/10)
    • The Passion Trap: How the search for your life's work is making your working life miserable (10/16/10)
    • guest post - "You just need to get started" is bad advice (9/13/10)
    • The Danger of the Dream Job Delusion (9/10/10)

Brain Connection

Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies

• Learning Tools

EDUCause (promoting intelligent higher education information usage)

• EDUCause Review

Free Education (Jimmy Ruska)

• Massive Resource List for All Autodidacts

Gallery of Educational Theorists

GoodQuestions Project (M Terrell, Cornell Dept. Mathematics)

• Just-in-Time Teaching
• Interactive Learning Toolkit

Guide to Success in College

Higher Education Academy (UK)

Information on Self-Efficacy - Bandura

Learning Reconsidered

• Higher Education's New Playbook: Learning Reconsidered, 2007 (J. Fried, About Campus, 2007, pdf)

LSDA - Learning and Skills Development Agency (UK)

Learning How to Learn Science

• Peer Instruction Problems: Introduction to the Method
Life Long Learning at Work and at Home (U Memphis)
• 25 principles of learning - html doc

MathAcademy

• Coping with Math Anxiety
• Encyclopedia

New Horizons for Learning

Organizational & Regional Learning, Innovative Systems and Evolutionary Theory - Krumme, U Wash

Oxford Learning Institute

Physical Sciences Centre - The Higher Education Academy (UK)

• Practical Guides
  • Annotated bibliography of research into teaching and learning of sciences in HE 2003-06 (R Gladwin) pdf
  • Annotated bibliography of research into teaching and learning of sciences in HE < 2003 (D Palmer)  pdf

ScienceDaily

• Why (Smart) Practice Makes Perfect (7/13/10)
• Monkey See, Monkey Do? Novel Study Sheds Light On Imitation Learning (3/20/07)

Success Types in Medical Education: Dedicated to your academic success (JW Pelley, Texas Tech U Hlth Sci)

• Prematriculation Program in Life Long Learning Self Study Course
• Developing analytic thinking skills - pdf
• Developing a step 1 brain - pdf

taxonomy of educational objectives

• Bloom's Taxonomy: A New Look at an Old Standby (pdf doc)
  • MCQs and Bloom's Taxonomy - Designing and Managing Multiple Choice Questions
• Major Categories in the Taxonomy of Educational Objectives (Bloom 1956)
• Marzano's New Taxonomy (pdf)
team-based learning:
• Team-based Learning Collaborative (the on-line resource for TBL in health sciences education)
  • What is Team-based learning?
  • Health Education - Scott Zimmerman, Biomedical Sci, Southwest Missouri State U
• TBL - Team-based Learning - LK Michaelsen, U Oklahoma
  • Materials for getting started
    • Getting Started with Team-based Learning (LK Michaelsen, pdf)
    • Creating Effective Assignments for Teams (LK Michaelsen et al., pdf)
    • Collection of other materials
• TBL - Team Learning in Medical Education (Baylor College of Medicine Office of Undergraduate Medical Education)
  • Introduction
• TBL - Wright State U School of Medicine
• Team-Based Learning - University of British Columbia Centre for Instructional Support
  • UC Davis Workshop Mtrls

TIP - Explorations in Learning & Instruction: The Theory Into Practice Database

texts:

• Should we be using learning styles? What research has to say about practice pdf
• Instructional Design & Learning Theory (B Mergel, 1998, pdf)

subject specific texts:

• Algebra Review in Ten Lessons (DP Story, U Akron)

websites:

• How People Learn - PennState
books:
• How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition (2000, Natl Academy of Sciences)
• How People Learn: Bridging Research and Practice - online reading format
  • online reading format (not expanded)
• Iconoclast: A neuroscientist reveals how to think differently (G Berns, 2008) Amazon
• Making the Most of College: Students speak their minds, (RJ Light, Harvard) - Amazon
  • review
• Outliers: The story of success, 2008 (Malcolm Gladwell) - Amazon
• Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else, 2008 (Geoff Calvin) - Amazon
• The Back of the Napkin: Solving problems and selling ideas with pictures, 2008 (Dan Roam) - Amazon
  • blog
• The Talent Code: Greatness isn't born. It's grown. Here's how, 2009 (Daniel Coyle) - Amazon
  • book website
  • review - BlogCritics Books 6/6/09
• Think Smart: A Neuroscientist's Prescription for Improving Your Brain's Performance (RM Restak, 2009) Amazon
• 12 Brain/Mind Learning Principles in Action: The Fieldbook for Making Connections, Teaching, and the Human Brain - Amazon
• Tips and Thoughts on Improving the Teaching Process in College - A Personal Diary, 2005 (J Hoyle on-line book pdf)
• Turning Learning Right Side Up
• Why Don't Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom, 2009 (DT Willingham) - Amazon
  • Why Students Don't Like School: Because the mind is not designed for thinking - American Educator, Spring 2009 4-13, pdf
  • education publications - American Educator
  • Britannica blog
• What the Best College Teachers Do, 2004 (Ken Bain) - Amazon
  • notes - BYU Center for Instructional Design
people:
• Arem, C
  • Math Study Skills
  • Math Test-taking Skills
  • Study Skills websites
    • algebra.help.com
    • Purplemath
• Bjork, Robert A. - UCLA cognitive psychologist
  • The Science of Studying Effectively - Bjork's Seven Study Techniques (ppt)
• Bransford, John D., Director, LIFE Center, U Washington - cognitive studies in education
  • How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School (NAP, 2000)
  • LIFE Center (Learning in Informal and Formal Environments)
  • BYU 2005 Benjamin Cluff Lecture - online
  • John Bransford on Learning, Innovation and Expertise - Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth blog (6/22/06)
  • recommended books - Understanding by Design
  • VaNTH ERC for Bioengineering Educational Technology
• Clark, Don - Performance, Learning, Leadership, & Knowledge
  • Learning
    • Learning Domains or Bloom's Taxonomy
  • Learning, Performance, and Knowledge Reading List
  • The Art and Science of Leadership
• Costa, Art
  • 16 Habits of Mind list - explanation (pdf)
• Dweck, Carol S. - Stanford Psychology Professor
  • Mindsets and Math/Science Achievement (2008) pdf – Carnegie commissioned paper
  • Mindset: The new psychology of success, 2006 - Amazon
    • book website
    • interview pdf
    • "The Effort Effect" (book review) - How to change the world (3/14/07)
    • More on Professor Carol Dweck and Mindsets (video) - How to change the world (4/02/07)
    • Fixed Mindset vs. Growth Mindset: Which One Are You? - Michael Graham Richard blog summary
    • wiki summary
  • The Effort Effect - Stanford Alumni News
  • YouTube (private)
• Hake, Richard - Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana U. - Hakes' Ed Stuff blog
  • RE: what do they do in math? (6/30/10)
    • Calculus: An intuitive approach - Amazon
  • Confessions of a converted lecturer #2 (3/18/10)
  • Confessions of a public speaker - Addenda (2/27/10)
  • RE: Confessions of a public speaker (2/25/10)
  • Can Distance and Classroom Learning Be Increased? (2008, pdf)
  • Can Scientific Research Enhance the Art of Teaching? (2007, pdf)
  • Six Lessons From The Physics Education Reform Effort (2007, pdf)
  • The Myths of Innovation (5/26/07)
  • Re: Why smart people defend bad ideas (11/28/05)
• Jernstedt, G.Christian
• Kohn, Alfie - articles
  • Alfie Kohn Is Bad for You and Dangerous For Your Children (2/2/09) - challenge by Daniel Willingham
  • Alfie Kohn’s Reply to Daniel Willingham (2/5/09)
• Kornell, Nate
  • publications
  • How to study (Research Digest Blog, 2/08)
  • Why cramming doesn't work (Chron Higher Ed 6/8/07)
• Mayer, Richard E. UC Santa Barbara Dept Psychology
  •  Five ways to reduce PowerPoint overload - pdf
• Mazur, Eric - Mazur Group
  • "Confessions of a Converted Lecturer" - YouTube
  • Peer Instruction: Engaging Students One-on-One, All At Once (55 pg pdf)
  • Peer Instruction: A User's Manual, Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-565441-6 - Amazon
  • "Confessions of a converted lecturer" - brownbags
  • "Confessions of a Converted Lecturer" (recorded at Cornell University, Sept. 18, 2006 - 1.5 hours)
  • interview
• Merrill, M. David - papers
  • First Principles of Instruction -  05 pdf  02 pdf   01 pdf
  • First Principles of Instruction Summary - pdf
• Pashler, Hal
  • How We Learn
  • Temporal Spacing and Learning
  • video
• Perkins, David
  • Project Zero - Harvard
    • notes on educational theory of Perkins
    • notes on principles (doc)
  • Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds - Amazon
    • ann
    • booknotes
    • essential questions in teaching and learning
    • SmartSchools - Leading and Learning blog (6/9/05)
• Rapaport, WJ - Computer Science and Engineering, SUNY - Buffalo
  • How to Study: A Brief Guide
  • William Perry's Scheme of Intellectual and Ethical Development
• Roediger, Henry L.
  • Test-Enhanced Learning in Medical Education (pdf)
• Rohrer, Doug
• Schechter, Eric - Vanderbilt U
  • The most common errors in undergraduate mathematics
  • Why do we study calculus? or: a brief look at some of the history of mathematics
• Senge, Peter
  • The Fifth Discipline
    • review
    • reviews
  • peter senge and the learning organization - html - infed
• Shulman, Lee S. - Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
  • It's All About Time! (2/21/08 Tomorrow's Professor Blog)
  • Making Differences: A Table of Learning (Change, 34(6):36-44, 2002)
  • Taking Learning Seriously (Change, 31(4):10-17, 1999)
• Smith, Frank The Book of Learning and Forgetting
• Sweller, John - wiki
  • Cognitive Load Theory - wiki
  • Cognitive Load Theory and Instructional Design: Recent Developments, 2003 (Educ Psychol 38:1-4) - pdf
  • Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work, 2006 (Educ Psychol 42(2):75-86) - pdf
  • UNjobs
• Weinstein, Claire, Educ Psychology, U Texas at Austin 2nd listing
• Willingham, Daniel T. - Cognitive psychology informing education
  • Why Don't Students Like School
  • blog posts (Encyclopedia Britannica Blog)
• Wirth, Karl, Geology prof, Macalester College
  • Learning to Learn (doc)

texts:

• A Fresh Look at Brain-Based Education (Phi Delta Kappan, 89(6), 2008)

blogs:

• D-Ed Reckoning
• E-Learning Curve Blog
  • Mayer's Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning (5/9/08)
• Leading and Learning (Bruce Hammonds)
  • The learning brain (8/4/08)
• Neurons Firing
• OEDb - Library
  • Hacking Knowledge: 77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better (11/30/06)
  • 88 Surefire Tips for Succeeding in College (10/5/06)
• Research Digest blog: Cutting edge reports on the latest psychology research
  • How to study (1/08)
• SharpBrains
  • Learning & the Brain: Resources for Educators (7/20/08)
  • 10 Brain Training Tips To Teach and Learn (7/3/08)
• Study Hacks: Demystifying Sustainable Success (Cal Newport)
  • Are passions serendipitously discovered or painstakingly constructed? (11/24/09) [flow!]
  • A study hacks primer (11/20/09)
  • The Pyramid Method: A simple strategy for becoming exceptionally good (6/3/09)
  • 4 weeks to a 4.0: Create project folders (4/20/09)
  • 4 weeks to a 4.0: Master your assignments (4/13/09)
  • 4 weeks to a 4.0: Streamline your notes (4/6/09)
  • 4 weeks to a 4.0: Adopt and autopilot schedule and a Sunday ritual (3/30/09)
  • The straight-A method: How to ace college courses (3/9/09)
  • Q&A: How much does intelligence matter at college? (12/17/08) [not as much as deliberate practice!]
  • Monday Master Class: Use focused question clusters to study for multiple choice tests (9/24/07)
• Teach Effectively!
  • Testing promotes retention (2/15/08)
• Will at Work Learning - Will Thalheimer's research-based commentary on learning, performance, and the industry thereof.
  • More Bogus Percentages. This time on wikipedia (11/11/07) - Edgar Dale's "Cone of Learning"
  • People remember 10%, 20%...Oh Really? (5/1/06) -

wiki:

• cognitive load
• working memory
• instructional design

ACRL

• Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education

Boeing - Desired Attributes of an Engineer

Common Core Standards Initiative

Council for Economic Education

• National Standards

Doing Good and Doing Well - Doing Well

• 10 Things Employers Want You to Learn in College: The Know-How You Need to Succeed by Bill Coplin - pdf
  • What do you really need to learn in college?" blog interview 12/17/09
  • The 10 skills needed in any professional career

Economic Literacy by Bob Parvin (a bit heretical)

Economic Literacy Project (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis) - Sound Money site

financial literacy:

• Choose to Save (Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) and its American Savings Education Council (ASEC) )
  • calculators
• MyMoney.gov - Financial Literacy and Education Commission (FLEC)
• Student Money Management Services - Bowling Green State U
• 360 degrees of financial literacy

How to Change the World (Guy Kawasaki)

• Ten Things to Learn This School Year (8/22/06)

IASE - International Statistical Literacy Project

ICW - Institute for a Competitive Workforce

MAA - Mathematical Association of America

• Quantitative Literacy
• Quantitative Reasoning for College Graduates: A Complement to the Standards - TOC

Make College Pay Off (Bill Coplin)

• Skills versus Stuff #2: For writing instructors, stuff is more fun than skills (1/2/10)
• High achievers in their 'dream jobs' (Culpwrit blog post 1/25/10)

Math for Life - Ian Morrison - pdf

National Council for Economic Education

• What American Teens & Adults Know About Economics, 2005 - pdf

National Forum on Information Literacy

National Institute for Literacy

National Numeracy Network

• Teaching Methods
• NNN Columns
  • Fertile Myrtle and the Most Important Statistic...In the World!

NWRC - National Work Readiness Credential - Online System

• Candidate Handbook - pdf
• Getting Ready for the Work Readiness Credential: A Guide for Trainers and Instructors of Jobseekers - 150 pg pdf

Political Math - old

• College Students: Learn Things You Can’t Learn On Your Own (9/9/09)

PracticeAptitudeTests.com

• Numerical Reasoning

Statistical Literacy

• Statistical Literacy Skills Survey - draft pdf
• Three Kinds of Statistical Literacy: What should we teach? - pdf
• Statistical Literacy and Evidential Statistics, (M Schield, pdf)
• Statistical Literacy and Mathematical Thinking, 2000 (M Schield, ICME-9, pdf)
• Statistical literacy: Thinking critically about statistics (M Schield, pdf)

wiki:

• digital literacy
• financial literacy
• information literacy
• numeracy
• statistical literacy

About Teaching:

ChangingMinds

• social proof principle

Claremont McKenna College - Berger Institute for Work, Family, and Children

• Applying the Science of Learning

JiTT - Just in Time Teaching

Life Long Learning at Work and at Home - U Memphis Dept of Psychology

National Academy for Academic Leadership

• readings & essays
  • curriculum review
  • designing a college curriculum

OISE Technology Tips

Peer Instruction

• Peer Instruction: Results from a Range of Classrooms, 2002 (pdf)
• Peer Instruction: Ten years of experience and results (html pdf)
• Peer Instruction versus Class-wide Discussion in Large Classes: a comparison of two interaction methods in the wired classroom, 2003 (pdf)
• Peer Instruction: Engaging Students One-on-One, All At Once, 2007 (CH Crouch, E Mazur 55 pg pdf)

PII: Program for Instructional Innovation - Oklahoma University

• Significant Learning for Significant Living: Creating Significant Learning Experience

Project Kaleidoscope

SERC: Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

• On the Cutting Edge: Professional Development for Geoscience Faculty
  • The Affective Domain in Teaching
  • Designing Effective and Innovative Courses

Teaching for Success - Jack Shrawder

Teaching for Understanding: Putting Understanding Up Front (ALPS Harvard)

• ETL: Enhancing Teaching-Learning Environments in Undergraduate Courses - Publications and presentations

The Collegiate Way - Residential Colleges - Robert J. O'Hara

• Teaching Pages - note "How to Learn Stuff"

TPI - Teaching Perspective Inventory

UK Physical Sciences Centre - The Higher Education Academy

University of New Mexico School of Medicine

• Designing Learning That Lasts: An Evidence-based Approach to Curriculum Development, 2006 pdf

Western Wyoming Community College - Faculty Resources

• Active Lecture pdf

• Inventio: Creative thinking about learning and teaching
  • 1(1) TOC
    • The Scholarship of Teaching: What's the Problem?

texts:

• 25 Learning Principles to Guide Pedagogy and the Design of Learning Environments ( doc)
• Could undergraduate physics teaching be better? (L Elton, Pantaneto Forum Issue 16, 2004)
• Do Economists Recognize an Opportunity Cost When They See One? A Dismal Performance from the Dismal Science, 2005. Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy  4(1): Article 7.
• First-year teaching-learning environments in economics. Intl Rev Economics Educ 3(1):9-38, 2004
• Judgment Day (M Oppenheimer, New York Times Magazine 9/19/08) - student course evaluations
• Tips and Thoughts on Improving the Teaching Process in College -- A personal diary, 2006 (JB Hoyle, pdf)
• Making Time, Making Change: Avoiding overload in college teaching Amazon
• What the Best College Teachers Do, 2004, Ken Bain Amazon
  • notes - BYU Center for Instructional Design
  • major conclusions
  • conclusions

people:

• Angelo, Tom
  • WSU President's Teaching Academy presentations and workshops
  • Lecturing for Learning - U Sydney YouTube
    • Attendance and assessment
    • Attention span
    • Cognitive load
    • Deep learning
    • Effective teachers
    •  Encouraging students to prepare
    • Lecture notes (PowerPoint Karaoke)
    • Peer learning
    • What lectures are good for
• Artino, AR
• Fink, L. Dee - publications
  • Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses, 2005  Amazon
    • Self-Directed Guide to Designing Courses for Significant Learning - doc
  • Team-Based Learning: A Transformative Use of Small Groups, 2004  Amazon
• Kalman, S
  • Successful Science and Engineering Teaching in Colleges and Universities,  Amazon
    • review
  • Successful Science and Engineering Teaching Theoretical and Learning Perspectives - publisher webpage
• Lemov, Doug - Uncommon Schools
  • Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College - Amazon
  • Building a Better Teacher (New York Times Magazine, 3/2/2010)
  • Taxonomy of effective teaching practices
• Panitz, Ted
  • Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education Implementation Ideas
• Tagg, J.
  • Assessment on the Learning Paradigm - ppt
  • From teaching to learning--A new paradigm for undergraduate education, 1995 (Barr, RB, Tagg, J, Change 27(6):12-25, html, html2 pdf)
  • The Learning Paradigm College
    • review

presentations:

• Master Teacher Series: Baruch College
• New Faculty Boot Camp: Ramping up and revitalizing your skills, 2006 (pdf)
• Teaching with PowerPoint - YouTube

blogs:

• All of My Faults are Stress Related
  • Unsolicited advice for dealing with course evaluations (5/8/09)
• Disparate: A bilingual blog on disparate subjects
  • Student Engagement: The Gym Analogy (Updated: Credited) (11/21/08)

wiki:

• dual-coding theory
• working memory

Adult Learning

• Ageless Learner
  • How Adults Learn (ML Conner - Fast Company Expert blog)
• Hiemstra, Roger - life long adult education
  • Lifelong Learning Reader
  • Overcoming resistance to self-direction in adult learning, 1994 - on-line book
  • Self-direction in adult learning: Perspectives on theory, research and practice, 1991 - on-line book

Cognitive Function:

• CBT - cognitive behavioral therapy - wiki
  • Academy of Cognitive Therapy
  • ACT - acceptance and commitment therapy - wiki
  • Association for Contextual Behavioral Science
  • CBT training - James' Publications
  • people
    • Beck, Aaron T.
    • LeJune, Chad - The Worry Trap - wiki
      • anxietyhappens.com - the worry trap
    • Seligman, Martin
• Classics in the History of Psychology
  • The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on our Capacity for Processing Information - GA Miller
• people:
  • Medina, John - Brain Rules blog
    • Brain Rules -   Amazon
    • brain science podcast - transcript
  • Ratey, John, Psychiatry prof, Harvard - Exercise Revolution blog
    • brain science podcast - transcript
• texts:
  • Brain Rules: 12 principles for surviving and thriving at work, home and school (J Medina,  - Amazon
  • Spark: The revolutionary new science of exercise and the brain (JJ Ratey, ) - Amazon
  • A Mind of Its Own: How your brain distorts and decieves (C Fine) - Amazon
  • Don't Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking (TE Kida) - Amazon

Critical Thinking

• Fermi Questions / Problems - wiki
  • A Garden of Fermi Problems at Hampton University
  • Astronomy 250: Order-of-magnitude physics (Eugene Chiang, UC Berkeley)
  • Mahajan, Sanjoy, MIT
    • 6.055J/2.038J Art of approximation in science and engineering
      • on-line book draft pdf
    • 5.95J/6.982J/7.59J/8.395J/18.094J Teaching college-level science and engineering
    • 18.098/6.099 Street-fighting mathematics
    • 6.969 Readings in teaching
    • 8.298 Lies and Damn Lies: The art of approximation in science
    • Estimating gas mileage - pdf
    • Estimating light bending using order-of-magnitude physics - pdf
    • Observations on teaching first-year physics - pdf
    • IB classical thermodynamics
    • Street-Fighting Mathematics: The art of educated guessing and opportunistic problem solving - toc
      • Creative Commons pdf
    • Surely You Must Be Joking, Mr. Mahajan! The “Street-Fighting Mathematician” Answers Your Questions (Freakanomics 7/16/10)
  • Old Dominion University Fermi Problems Site 
  • Ph 103c Order of magnitude physics (Sterl Phinney, Peter Goldreich, Cal Tech)
    • Order-of-Magnitude Physics: Understanding the World with Dimensional Analysis, Educated Guesswork, and White Lies - pdf
  • Physics 239: Scaling and estimation in physics (Pat Diamond, George Fuller, Tom Murphy, UC San Diego)
  • Physics 309: Physics on the back of an envelope (L Weinstein, Old Dominion U)
  • University of Maryland Fermi Problems Site
  • books:
    •  Back-of-the-Envelope Physics - Amazon - Clifford Swartz
    • Guesstimation: Solving the World's Problems on the Back of a Cocktail Napkin - Amazon - L. Weinstein and JA Adam - book website
    • How Many Licks?: Or, How to Estimate Damn Near Anything - Amazon - Aaron Santos.
    • How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business,  Douglas W. Hubbard - Amazon
    • The Flying Circus of Physics - Amazon - authors website - http://www.flyingcircusofphysics.com/index.aspx
  • wiki:
    • dimensional analysis
    • Fermi problem
    • unit conversion by factor-label
  • blogs:
    • dotphysics (R Allain)
    • FPOTW (Fermi problem of the week), Fermi Problem - (SI Psi)
    • "Fermi Problems" (Economist's View 5/29/09)
    • A Fermi problem about pharmaceuticals (The Shifting Balance of Factors, 1/6/10)
    • Visual analysis of the zeroth kind: Geoffrey Taylor and the bomb (tableau, 5/16/08)
    • Risk assessment and Fermi problems (Risky Thinking Blog, 12/23/08)
• rationality
  • Rationality - Michael Graham Richard blog

Educational Organizations:

• Learning Organization
  • Fieldbook.com
    • Schools that learn
  • Peter Senge and the learning organization - infed
  • SOL - Society for Organizational Learning
    • The five disciplines of organizational learning (from the Dance of Change)

  blogs:

  • Educational Technology and Life
    • Develop Learning Capacity

• Ericsson, K A -
  • Expert performance and deliberate practice: An updated excerpt from Ericsson (2000)
  • The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance, 2006 - Amazon
    • synopsis - Brian Martin Comments to my colleagues
• Business Insight ZONE blog (Tim Walker)
  • Deliberate practice in the working world (4/14/08)
• Blogger in Middle-earth
  • Proficiency and Deliberative Practice (6/2/09)
• eLearning Technology
  • Does Deliberative Practice Lead to Quick Proficiency (6/3/09)
• The Frontal Cortex
  • Getting Good (5/30/08)
  • Deliberate Practice (7/22/08)
  • Fundamentals of piano practice - pdf (linked from another website)

Faculty Development:

• Faculty Development Associates Online Resources

Habits of Mind:

• Habits of Mind
  • Describing 16 Habits of Mind (AL Costa, B Kallick, 2000, pdf)

Learning Representation

• Concept maps
  •  Concept Maps: A theoretical note on concepts and the need for cyclic concept maps (F Safayeni, N Derbentseva, AJ Canas) - pdf

SoTL: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

• Center for Learning and Teaching Excellence - Arizona State
• ISSOTL - International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
• SoTL - Illinois State U
  • Learner autonomy bibliography

texts:

• The Education Schools Project
  • Educating Researchers, 2007 (Arthur Levine pdf)
    • review - Filling the Void (5/7/07, Inside Higher Ed)
• The Scholarship of Teaching: What's the Problem? (Randy Bass, Georgetown U, Inventio 1(1) html)

bibliographies:

• CASTL Annotated Bibliography: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2002 (pdf)
• Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Selected Bibliography - Fall 2006 (K McKinney, Illinois State U, html pdf)

• Wiki SoTL
   

Teaching Materials (Mostly - Teaching materials without a better place to put them):

• Agriculture in the Classroom
• Medical Microbiology, 4^th ed. (Samuel Baron, U Texas Grad School of Biomedical Sciences)
  • TOC

Teamwork

people:

• Tuckman, Bruce W.
  • Developmental sequence in small groups (BNet)

wiki

• Forming-storming-norming-performing

Writing:

• Purdue OWL
• Texas A&M Writing Center
• U Toronto
  • iWrite: Interactive Tutorial Environment
  • Teaching Writing as Part of Arts and Science Courses: Lessons from Experience - M Procter, U Toronto, 2001
  • Using the Computer to Improve Your Writing
• UVic Writer's Guide
  • Revising

Journals:

• CBE: Life Sciences Education

Blogs / Lists / Wikis:

• AERA-L: Educational Policy and Politics Forum
• Ask-Dr-Kirk (Delaney Kirk, Drake U)
• David Arendale's Personal Web Site
• DR-ED: Medical Education Research and Development (subscription required) FAQ
• FuturePundit
  • Repeated Drills To Learn Material Should Be Spread Over Time (9/7/07) - brain memory
• The Learning Circuits Blog
  • Convergence Learning (12/10/06)
• Medical Education Blog (U Saskatchewan)
• Medical Education Wiki (U Saskatchewan)
• Other Teaching Centers - KU Center for Teaching Excellence
• POD-L- Professional & Organization Development Network in Higher Education
• STLHE-L - Society for Teaching & Learning in Higher Education
• Teaching and Learning Resources - wiki
• Tomorrow's Professor Blog (MIT-Stanford partnership)

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