ABLE was founded to promote information exchange among university and college educators actively concerned with teaching biology in a laboratory setting. The focus is to improve the undergraduate biology laboratory experience by promoting the development and dissemination of interesting, innovative, and reliable laboratory exercises.
Each workshop/conference brings together a group of selected presenters with about 140 participants from university and college biology departments throughout Canada and the U.S. In three very full days, the participants are actively involved in six 3-hour "hands on" workshops. The workshop presenters provide all of the essential information and experiences that the potential user of the laboratory would require in order to "take it home" and use the exercise in their own teaching program. The workshops are published in Tested Studies for Laboratory Teaching, the conference proceedings published by ABLE. Selected articles are also available online.
The AHA provides a variety of resources to support teachers. One highlight is the AHA's collaboration with the AAHE on a teaching portfolio project.
The OAH offers a range of teaching resources for teachers, including a new Web site devoted to teaching about current articles in the Journal of American History.
This online teaching resources consist primarily of discussion lists on topics related to teaching history and social science (such as teaching the US history survey course, teaching history in high school, using multimedia to teach history, and so on)
This organization had its beginning years ago as part of the Association of American Medical Schools (AAMC) annual meeting. (copied from the IAMSE Web site): Our goal is to advance medical education through faculty development and to ensure that the teaching and learning of medicine continues to be firmly grounded in science.
PFF programs are sponsored by the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) and the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) with support from the National Science Foundation, The Pew Charitable Trusts, and a private donor.
Links to Other Sites in Support of Teaching and Learning
This site contains the full text of thousands of books on a variety of subjects.
This is a Center of international scope whose purpose is collection and dissemination of information that will enhance the learning, success, satisfaction, retention, and graduation of college students in transition (e.g., first-year students, transfer students, and college seniors). The Center organizes and hosts a series of annual national and international conferences, dating back to 1982, and teleconferences, as well as publishing a scholarly journal, newsletter, and monograph series. The Center also maintains a web site and four Internet listservs, and serves as a site for hosting sabbaticals and visits from scholars and educators.
The Carnegie Foundation has developed a Web site which was first conceived at a POD meeting several years ago, called The Scholarly and Professional Societies Register, and it provides information from the (subject-based) scholarly and professional societies about teaching-and-learning-related programs and publications of interest to faculty, campuses, and other organizations seeking to advance the scholarship of teaching and learning.
The site is part of a larger one, featuring the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL). Viewers will also find descriptions of and reports from small grants provided to scholarly and professional societies; work by the faculty who serve as Carnegie Scholars; and links to further information about CASTL's Teaching Acaedmy Campus Program, which is directly by Carnegie's partner, the American Association for Higher Education.
Bob Diamond, longtime POD member, is president, and many other POD people have been involved in establishing the academy
This is the world's largest education research library.
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Links to almost everything in higher education!
Technological Applications to Student Learning and Development
Let Me Learn: http://www.letmelearn.org/
Entrance to a wide variety of explanatory materials, research publications, inventories, and conference and training workshop announcements related to the Let Me Learn learning styles framework. The learner-centered framework has been adapted to higher education, K-12, the workplace, and family interactions. It extends into the Let me Learn Process, which are tools for learners to develop strategies to learn most successfully.
Access to or at least information about almost 200 journals (print and on line), books, listservs, organizations, and Web sites that support teaching in higher education. The listing includes both cross-disciplinary and discipline-specific resources, with the disciplines covering a varied range from business management to the visual and performing arts. This site is built BY members of the higher education community FOR members of the higher education community, so visitors are encouraged to contribute information on their own favorite teaching resources.
These sites describe research projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation
