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This website, from the University of Arizona, is a great resource for preceptors. It has everything from a sample syllabus and rotation calendar to helpful hints for preceptors. Also contains links to workshops about precepting.

Penn State - 2007. Addresses specific examples of active learning stratgies to employ in class, including examples from professors. Professors speak on their methods and how to apply it to students

Penn State - 2007. Addresses specific examples of active learning stratgies to employ in class, including examples from professors. Professors speak on their methods and how to apply it to students

This is a video of the 2012 American Psychological Association "Diane Halpern" lecture on metacognition in education. Dr. Elizabeth Yost Hammer, the faculty developer at Xavier Univerisity, discusses the importance of developing incoming college students' metacognition and the techniques to do so. From 0:00 - 07:00, Dr. Hammer discusses the term, metacognition, and applies it to the typical student with poor self-assessment skills. During 11:00 - 16:30, characteristics of incoming high-school students are discussed and provides insight into why these students may have poor metacognitive and study skills. Techniques to teach metacognition to students are discussed in detail during 18:30 - 36:30. I would highly recommend this section for those interesting in learning more about formative assessment. Dr. Stephen Chew, also discussed in our lecture, makes a brief appearance at 36:30 - 38:00 and discusses his video series, "How to study hard and still fail..." Finally, Dr. Hammer concludes her lecture with other habits of mind that play a role in the development of metacognition, such as the fixed mindset theory.

Produced by the George Lucas Educational Foundation, Edutopia is a website devoted to advancing education by sharing research and best practices on a wide range of instructional topics. Although focused on K-12 education, many of the topics also apply to higher education. The specific link cited above goes to the section of Edutopia focused on instructional technology in the classroom. In addition to providing an overview of how technology may be incorporated into education, this website provides a history of advances in the field, video commentary from educational experts, and research/best practices.

This article compares the different ways that case teaching can be employed from three professors with very different backgrounds and types of courses.

Also from ASCD, this is a short one-page summary of the 16 habits of mind. This resource is short, straight forward, and has fun little graphics.

EduTech Wiki from the University of Geneva

University of Michigan Center for Research on Learning and Teaching. This website has tons of resources on how to prepare a instructor guides and lesson plans.

A lesson plan is the instructor's road map of what students need to learn and how it will be done effectively during the class time.

From the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching at the University of Michigan

In this study, the authors explored the roles of a mentor, characteristics of a good mentor-mentee relationship, and barriers to mentorship by interviewing medical students and medical professors at two institutions in Canada. The surveyors asked mostly open-ended questions during the interview, which helped the authors explore views that were not mentioned in previously published literature. Both the mentors and mentees recognized that having a mentor is key to the mentee's future success. This article was different from others in that it examined the mentor-mentee relationship from both sides.

"Every aspect of life in ancient Egypt was informed by the stories which related the creation of the world and the sustaining of that world by the gods. "

Every Thursday evening, 8:30 ET, 5:30 PT, there's a great fun live gathering on Twitter called #lrnchat. It's a fast free-for-all organized around a theme, like instructional design, virtual worlds, social learning, or e-learning myths, structured around 3 general questions. Topics will range from instructional design, training, education, etc. Begin by typing #lrnchat into the Twitter search box. If you'd like to get a look at who's likely to be there, and how the conversation will go, you can check out the transcripts. This a great way to be part of a discussion on an educational topic and great opportunity to build your network with other eLearning experts in the field...during the chat the live stream of tweets fly fast and furious!

This website connects Flavell's and Brown's theories of metacognition, differentiates cognition from metacognition, and explores some interpersonal variables that may impact one's metacognitive abilities. It also touches upon metacognitive strategies in the classroom setting.

This is a quick reference for a general overview of metacognition.  It discusses 2 of the metacognitive phenomena as well as a brief introduction into cognitive strategy instruction.   

This article begins with a brief overview of the evolution from pedagogy to andragogy. But the highlight of the article is the discussion of the controversy surrounding the spread of andragogy and the alternative theories that developed out of this.

Provides an overview of the flipped classroom model, including research supporting its use, important concepts for successful implementation, and links to more information. A variety of other topics are also featured on the website, including collaborative teaching, team-based learning, problem-based learning, etc.

An article from The Atlantic featuring the incorporation of the "flipped classroom" concept at the University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy. A study of the model's incorporation into the Pharmaceutics course demonstrated improvements in academic performance and engagement compared to traditional didactic lectures.