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I have collected here, without examples or detailed explanations, a collection of practices that constitute excellence in college teaching. These elements represent the broad range of effective actions teachers take, and requisite conditions that teachers establish, to facilitate learning. I have tried to make this listing intentionally brief and can be scanned to serve more as a reference to the scope of excellent teaching techniques than as a source of enlightenment. - See more at: http://teaching.uncc.edu/learning-resources/articles-books/best-practice/instructional-methods/best-practices-summary#sthash.mW3VaKx6.dpuf

I have collected here, without examples or detailed explanations, a collection of practices that constitute excellence in college teaching. These elements represent the broad range of effective actions teachers take, and requisite conditions that teachers establish, to facilitate learning. I have tried to make this listing intentionally brief and can be scanned to serve more as a reference to the scope of excellent teaching techniques than as a source of enlightenment. - See more at: http://teaching.uncc.edu/learning-resources/articles-books/best-practice/instructional-methods/best-practices-summary#sthash.mW3VaKx6.dpuf

Resources: Retention Challenges and Solutions

Literature guides. Includes The Lottery and Lady Chatterley's Lover

"A PLN is a reciprocal network that you create to learn from, connect with, gather information or resources, create with and finally share what you have learned. A PLN can occur in your school, face-to-face, online, at conferences or through reading, reflecting and sharing."

"The following resources offer music and sound effects that students can use for free in multimedia projects."

"An ePortfolio is similar in essence to the traditional pen and paper portfolio but with a set of added advantages. For instance , ePortfolios are accessible anywhere anytime with internet connection. Also ePortfolios allows for a wider inclusion of different multimedia items such as videos, podcasts, audio recordings, slides, text, images and many more."

Lumen Learning "is dedicated to facilitating broad, successful adoption of OER." This is a good resource for those who are contemplating teaching any of the following courses yet want to spare their students the cost of a textbook: Business Writing, Composition 1, or Composition 2.

"More than a quarter million videos and games, all Common Core aligned."

Read this collaborative blog for ideas, inspiration, and context for emerging educational technology. The content is a curated collection of free and open resources produced by the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub, whose mission is to advance research in the service of a more equitable, participatory, and effective ecosystem of learning keyed to the digital and networked era.

This is a quick and easy (and FREE) resource for generating QR codes. Add QR codes to handouts (e.g., syllabus, assignments, etc.), flyers, posters, etc. to direct student to website content.

"create amazing interactive courses. Versal is a simple publishing platform with everything you need. Add text, videos, images, quizzes and interactive learning gadgets and bring your expertise to life."

PLText developed the world's first plagiarism checker and remover tool. We detect plagiarism by scanning and comparing your text with millions of web pages and academic resources from the internet.