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Various topics for 650 and faculty development

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Original and Revised


Added: 01/29/2013

Wiki. Chapter on Bloom's taxonomy

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Rubric for the 6 Facets of Understanding


Added: 01/29/2013
From Understand by Design
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Authentic Assessment Toolbox


Added: 01/29/2013
how-to text on creating authentic tasks, rubrics and standards for measuring and improving student learning.
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Active Learning Practice for Schools (ALPS)


Added: 01/29/2013
ALPS, Active Learning Practice for Schools, is an electronic community dedicated to the improvement and advancement of educational instruction and practice. Our mission is to create an on-line collaborative environment between teachers and administrators from around the world with educational researchers, professors, and curriculum designers at Harvard's Graduate School of Education and Project Zero.
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Student Assessment of Learning Gains (SALG)


Added: 01/29/2013
The SALG website is a free course-evaluation tool that allows college-level instructors to gather learning-focused feedback from students. Anyone may register and use the site. Once registered on the SALG site, you can: 1. Create and use a SALG survey to measure students' learning gains in your course and their progress toward your course's learning goals. 2. Create and use an optional baseline survey to discover students' starting point relative to course goals.
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Ecoaching Tips for Teaching Online


Added: 01/29/2013
Inventory of Ecoaching Tips
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Cutting Edge Course Design Tutorial


Added: 01/29/2013
An online version of a face-to-face Course Design Tutorial, that guides faculty independently through the same practical and intellectually interesting processes related to setting course goals, designing the course and following through. For faculty developers who would like to do a workshop using this resource, there are additional links
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Best Practices in Online Teaching


Added: 01/29/2013
This course provides practical strategies and pedagogical advice for instructors teaching in an online environment. The course includes advice about: preparing to teach in an online environment, managing the teaching of a course, and addressing larger issues surrounding online teaching (e.g. workload, intellectual property, etc.) The course includes interviews from a number of teachers who have taught in an online environment. This course is based on a training session offered to faculty who teach at The World Campus at Penn State University. Module Authors:
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Educational Origami - Bloom's Digital Taxonomy


Added: 01/29/2013
Wiki on Bloom's taxonomy. Thorough and useful for fac dvlp and Methods course
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Misunderstood Minds


Added: 01/29/2013
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Access e-learning


Added: 01/29/2013