Learning Theory: Available Online Resources for Teaching and Learning

Active Learning

• Active Learning Bibliography -- Active Learning Bibliography is a site designed on how to use different methods while promoting active learning.
• University of Delaware Problem-Based Learning -- This site uses the idea of the instructional method that will challenge students to utilize groups as a method of solving problems.
• Problem-Based Learning at Cornell University -- A site designed to show how to solve problems through the interaction of a group.

Creativity

• Teaching Creativity -- by Marvin Bartel, Emeritus Professor of Art, Goshen College
• Creative Thinking Assessment: Creative Thinking VALUE Rubric -- "The Creative Thinking VALUE Rubric is intended to help faculty assess creative thinking in a broad range of transdisciplinary or interdisciplinary student assignments. The rubric is made up of a set of attributes that are common to creative thinking across disciplines."
• Triarchic View of Intelligence -- This presentation identifies the three areas of intelligence and provides suggestions on how to teach and assess different types of intelligence, including creative intelligence.
• Coping with Complexity: Educating for Capability -- by Sarah W Fraser and Trisha Greenhalgh

Critical Thinking

• CriticalThinking.Net -- gives a definition, teaching guide, and assessment of critical thinking.
• Radical Course Revision: A Case Study -- an instructor's personal modification of a course to motivate students and provide an atmosphere for critical thinking.

Evidence-based Teaching & Learning

• How to Improve Teaching Quality -- How To Improve Teaching Quality illustrates useful ideas on how instructors can enhance their classes with educational procedures.

Learning Perspectives

• The National Teaching and Learning Forum Website -- National Teaching and Learning Forum is dedicated to those who want to share ideas on how to help students reach high goals in the classroom.
• Carnegie Foundation Gallery of Teaching & Learning -- Online Teaching Portfolios From Carnegie Foundation Project on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning is designed to contribute a helping hand to instructors for new ideas in teaching and learning.
• Institute for Transforming Undergraduate Education -- Institute for Transforming Undergraduate Education “has been created to promote reform of undergraduate education through faculty development and course design.”
• Constructivism, Instructivism, and Related Sites Links List -- Resources on Constructivist Pedagogical Theory and Practice goes through the two theories of Constructivism and Instructivism and present similar sites.
• VARK a Guide to Learning Styles -- VARK Inventory of Student Learning Styles: Online Assessment Instrument that acts as a guide towards numerous learning styles.
• The 21st Century Learning Initiative -- The 21st Century Learning Initiative provides a new look at ways to learn through different methods.
• Understanding Multiple Intelligences -- Understanding Multiple Intelligences provides descriptions, attributes, and teaching strategies for each unique type of intelligence.
• Emotional Intelligence -- Incorporating Emotional Intelligence explains the concept of EI and how to integrate it into the classroom.
• Developing Instructional Goals -- Developing goals and objectives helps you organize in order to reach the performance objective.

Other Useful Links

• Active Learning in Higher Education-- Active Learning in Higher Education will allow you to search different resources for teaching and learning in higher education.
• Guide to Teaching Large Classes -- The University of Maryland Center for Teaching Excellence's support site for those who engage in efforts to improve educational studies.
• Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction -- Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction is dedicated to supporting and advancing teaching by working with those who are willing to provide valuable resources.