Teaching & Learning Links

CAE Handouts
See our collected articles, tip sheets and other resources on topics ranging from assessment, diversity and integrative learning to syllabus design and teaching with technology.

Designing a Course, Start to Finish
Dee Fink's free 30 page synopsis and workshop handouts from his phenomenally helpful book Creating Significant Learning Experiences (copies available for loan). A must read for "backwards" design and other brilliant conceptions.

POD-IDEA Center Notes
One-page briefs to help employ different teaching methods, based on the IDEA student rating system, such as the following: "Found ways to help students answer their own questions," "Demonstrated the importance and significance of the subject matter," or "Explained course material clearly and concisely."

Teaching Strategies & Disciplinary Resources
From the nation's leading teaching researchers at U Michigan, find material on everything from grading and feedback to diversity and academic integrity to assembling teaching portfolios.

Professional and Organizational Development Network
in Higher Education (POD)
The world's premier faculty development association, POD features an annual conference we attend every fall and a searchable listserve archives full of answers to common questions about every kind of teaching and learning challenge.

The Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium (CTDLC)
Offers a variety of online training programs as well as grants.

JesuitNET
A collaboration of Jesuit institutions sharing resources for online programs, including Competency Assessment in Distance Education (CADE) Workshop--free for Fairfield faculty.

Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT)
Free and open resource that includes sample assignments, teaching methods and activities.