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Books @ Nutting - Select Bibliography

E175.8 .A505 2005
I'm the teacher, you're the student : a semester in the university classroom
/ Patrick Allitt

H62 .C584824 2004
The compleat academic : a career guide
/ edited by John M. Darley, Mark P. Zanna, and Henry L. Roediger

HF1131 .E48 2004
Elite MBA programs at public universities : how a dozen innovative schools are redefining business education
/ edited by Mimi Wolverton

LB41 .E48 2007b
Teach like your hair's on fire : the methods and madness inside room 56
/ Rafe Esquith

LB1044.87 .B43 2003
Discussion-based online teaching to enhance student learning : theory, practice, and assessment
/ Tisha Bender

LB1044.87 .F57 2003
Designing courses and teaching on the Web : a "how to" guide to proven, innovative strategies
/ Mercedes Fisher

LB2322.2 .B65 2006
Our underachieving colleges : a candid look at how much students learn and why they should be learning more
/ Derek Bok

LB2331 .B34 2004
What the best college teachers do
/ Ken Bain

LB2333 .A277 2007
Developing a comprehensive faculty evaluation system : a guide to designing, building, and operating large-scale faculty evaluation systems
/ Raoul A. Arreola

LB2336 .S87 2004
Assessing student learning : a common sense guide
/ Linda Suskie

LB2822.75 .A44 2004
Assessing academic programs in higher education
/ Mary J. Allen

LB3605 .N34 2005
My freshman year : what a professor learned by becoming a student
/ Rebekah Nathan

LC189.8 .I56 2007
International perspectives on education
/ edited by Albert Rolls

LC191.94 .G73 2003
Clueless in academe : how schooling obscures the life of the mind
/ Gerald Graff

PN4193 .L4 A337 2007
The Art of Lecturing / Parham Aarabi

RC451.4.S7 K336 2004
College of the overwhelmed : the campus mental health crisis and what to do about it / Richard Kadison, Theresa Foy DiGeronimo

VK531 .F57 2005 
Practical teaching skills for maritime instructors
/ Darrell Fisher, Peter Muirhead

VK535 .Z334 2003
Thematic network on Maritime Education, Training and Mobility of Seafarers, METNET ; final report for publication


 

 

Journals
The library subscribes to the following journals. All are available in paper and some are available electronically through the catalog and require passwords. A staff member will log you on.
Campus Technology
Chronicle of Higher Education
Computers and Composition
Connection
The New England Journal of Higher Education
T.H.E. journal: technological horizons in education

Another way to find journals on teaching methods, instruction, etc., is to click http://libraries.maine.edu/mainedatabases/ejournals.htm (found on the Library Home Page, full-text articles, E-Journals@MARVEL). Change Title begins with to Title contains all words and type education (or try typing instruction). There are more than 250 journals available in full text through the MARVEL databases using this search. If you have a specific title in mind, type it.

For more help on database searching, see http://library.mma.edu/datainfo.htm.

If off campus, you'll need to configure the proxy settings http://library.mma.edu/proxy.htm.

 


Links
The following websites index hundreds of teaching and instructional links with topics ranging from designing a course to engaging students to improving student writing.

The Teaching Professor

Educate, engage and inspire are the directives behind these blogs addressing topics such as faculty development, generational differences and tenure.

Pearson's Strategies for Success The eight page issues focus on topics including "Building Essential Skills," "Helping Students Retain What They Learn" and "Laboratory Learning Strategies." Tested and approved by one of MMA's own.

University of Hawaii Faculty Development Teaching Tips Index

Extensive list of links organized by subject

Faculty Development Associates Online Resources

No subject index, browse or try a word search (Edit, Find in This Page)

University of Washington Center for Instructional Development and Research

Topics include preparing to teach, understanding / engaging the students and assessing

Palomar College Index to Teaching With Technology

Browse the podcast episodes or try a word search

Brown University

Information on course design and management, documenting teaching effectiveness and advising

Eastern Kentucky University Teaching Tips

There is a subject guide and the pages are well annotated

McMaster University Center for Teaching and Learning

There are forty statements addressing learning / teaching problems and ideas for solving them

Illinois State Center for Teaching. Learning and Technology

About 25 major topics with the subtopics listed underneath

University of Virginia Teaching Resource Center Tips

Teaching tips from TRC's newsletter, Teaching Concerns, are grouped by category and cross-referenced

Teach Philosophy 101 This site provides strategies and resources for faculty members who teach philosophy courses plus materials of general interest for all instructors. Free, user-friendly resources are provided and, because it's an open source license, you may print as many copies as you wish.

 

 

 

 



 

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