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McGraw-Hill eInstruction. A student response system using wireless connectivity, giving instructors and students immediate feedback.

These are very simple workshops (for the most part, straight text with no video) that offer suggestions for some of the key moments of the classroom experience: planning, student feedback, the beginning of the semester, and the end of the semester, as well as some modules on lecturing, outcome/assessment, and testing.

Posted by the Writing Services division of the Student Success Center at St. Louis University. These "10 Myths" try to help students understand that re-writes, feedback, and "writer's block" are facts of life for all of us -- not just for "bad" writers. Other myths are explored as well, all in the interests of making students more comfortable with the process.

TM shared in the coffee klatch.

Quia is short for Quintessential Instructional Archive. It provides instructional tools including: templates for creating online activities, online testing tools, access to over 3 million online activities and quizzes, a schoolwide network to promote collaboration, a centralized classroom management system, a class Web page creator and online surveys for gathering student and teacher feedback

Automated essay scoring (AES) has many benefits such as immediate grading, reliable reporting, and diagnostic feedback. While automation poses certain operational and technical challenges, more states are adopting AES for both formative and summative assessments. This presentation presents empirical data from the state of West Virginia online writing assessments on the reliability and validity of machine scores.

This site (currently in Beta) was founded by James Gee and is essentially a database of in-progress projects, begging for feedback/interaction/collaboration with and by others. For more on the site, click through or follow the wep tag to see the About page.

Posted by Tony Bates to his blog on August 1, 2011. Bates, who runs a consultancy to teach about e-learning, argues that online learning is ever more important in post-secondary education (he writes from Canada, but his statistics are for all of North America), but that most post-secondary teachers have been trained very little in pedagogy and "teaching" at all, less so in online teaching and learning. He seeks comments and feedback to his argument.

Produced by the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, these resources are part of a larger library of teaching resources.

MAS recommends this page -- especially the peer review and student self-assessment resources -- for helping students learn more about the re-writing process.

By Jarene Fluckiger, Yvonne Tixier y Vigil, Rebecca Pasco & Kathy Danielson in College Teaching, vol 58, #4, 2010. Abstract is available on this page; full article is by subscription only, but may be available through your local library.

Gail Mellow recommended this article.

By Arthur W. Chickering, Zelda F. Gamson and Susan J. Poulsen, published by the Johnson Foundation, 1987.

DM refers to this book in this introduction (in reference to his teaching principles), including the ideal that "Effective teaching encourages faculty-student interactions, encourages student-student engagement, provides prompt feedback, and communicates high expectations."

Testing system by Epstein Educational Enterprises. IF-AT transforms multiple-choice testing into an interactive learning opportunity for students and provides an informative assessment tool for teachers.

RA discusses Lindemann's chapter on responding to student writing in Choice Events/Reid Sunahara: Feedback 3.0: Using Technology to Respond to Student Writing (1/22/10)