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Great resources for teaching and learning.  "We strive to empower instructors by helping them develop a deep understanding of how students learn, so that they can effectively apply and adapt teaching strategies to meet their own goals and their students' needs.  The purpose of the following materials is to present current research and theory on student learning in a way that can inform and guide effective teaching practices."

"This section provides a document on teaching portfolios (pdf) - including a description of their common structure and recommendations for specific artifacts to include as evidence of effective teaching - and information on our program for graduate students that helps them document their teaching experience at Carnegie Mellon."

"A true flipped classroom is centered on the idea that technology can help us deliver quality teaching when and where the students are ready for it. Teaching methodology must be pedagogically sound in order for a flipped classroom to be effective, but that is no different than any other method being explored by teachers."

Describes why teaching just the correct answers is insufficient for learning. You must address and eradicate misconceptions in order for the learning to take hold. This is ESSENTIAL for flipped teaching models.

Derek Muller describes why teaching just the correct answers is insufficient for learning. You must address and eradicate misconceptions in order for the learning to take hold. This is ESSENTIAL for flipped teaching models.

"Search, links, media sharing, social media, Wikipedia, games, open source etc. are ground breaking shifts in the way we learn, says Donald Clark. Unfortunately, they're not matched by the way we teach. The growing gap between teaching practice and learning practice is acute and growing. Institutional teaching, especially in Universities is hanging on to the pedagogic fossil that is the lecture. The true driver for positive, pedagogic change is the internet."

Lodge McCammon's technique for flipped teaching, involving hand-drawn boards and personal lectures. Interesting and potentially powerful, but remember that this is just one perspective on how to accomplish flipped teaching. There are others out there.

"It was just another day here at St. John's College, whose distinctiveness goes far beyond its curriculum of great works: Aeschylus and Aristotle, Bacon and Bach. As much of academia fractures into ever more specific disciplines, this tiny college still expects - in fact, requires - its professors to teach almost every subject, leveraging ignorance as much as expertise."

"It was just another day here at St. John's College, whose distinctiveness goes far beyond its curriculum of great works: Aeschylus and Aristotle, Bacon and Bach. As much of academia fractures into ever more specific disciplines, this tiny college still expects - in fact, requires - its professors to teach almost every subject, leveraging ignorance as much as expertise."

An article on Bloom's that includes a wonderful description of teaching organic chemistry through a mechanistic approach:  (which I've found in practice to be vastly superior to teaching students to memorize reactions!)

Is exploration better than explicit teaching?

Very long talk by Eric Mazur on the merits of teaching for understanding.

Free physics and math "courses" for flipped teaching, from Derek Owens.

Math and Physics learning videos. Could be used for flipped teaching.

"We teach numbers, then algebra, then calculus, then physics. Wrong!" exclaims the Massachusetts Institute of Technology mathematician, a pioneer in artificial intelligence. "Start with engineering, and from that abstract out physics, and from that abstract out ideas of calculus, and eventually separate off pure mathematics. So much better to have the first-grade kid or kindergarten kid doing engineering and leave it to the older ones to do pure mathematics than to do it the other way around."

"As I stare out across the ocean of students I teach everyday, I wonder if their obsession with grades comes from an unexpected source: the way we schedule their classes."

"Resources and Annotations from UW-Stout's E-Learning and Online Teaching Graduate Certificate Program. Contributors are mainly from the E-Learning for Educators Course & the E-Learning Practicum Course."

6 models of blended learning, from Michael Horn: "Face-to-Face driver, Rotation, Flex, Online lab, Self-blend, Online driver."

"Digital learning resources, tips, research, and teaching and learning resources. Feel free to join this group to share related resources."

"Just as effective teaching demands that teachers establish routines to guide the basic physical and social interactions of the classroom, so too thinking routines need to be established to help guide students' learning and intellectual interactions..."

Basic article on the concept of Khan Academy. My takeaway was the importance of the following quote: "It can give the teacher additional class time to do more creative and customized teaching. " If you are not taking up classtime imparting knowledge where the teacher is speaking more of the time, you give students the voice to explain what is going on in their heads, or working on collaborative problem solving.