Learning Styles This is this site's favourite page. This section describes ways to determine your (and your students') "ways of knowing" and how one learns. There are also links that describe different types of learners and teacher approaches to teaching them

Learning&Teaching Links Links for Teaching Centers, professional development and educational organizations and tips of the trade

Teaching Tips Articles and links that describe different ways to approach teaching and how to get it right

TA's/Faculty Manuals A page that contains manuals for all teachers and teaching assistants from within and outside Columbia

Collaborative Learning This section is devoted to teaching techniques that involve collaborative and cooperative student efforts in and out of the classroom.

Education@Columbia A guide to what's new in education & curriculum development at Columbia

IT Cluster Columbia's own organization that sponsors curriculum & classroom change using technology

Reform With IT Articles that detail problems and how to overcome them when technology is used in education

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Student Retention in Postsecondary Education Links and a bried description of what is important when trying to retain students

Learning Styles and Strategies Implications of learning styles, descriptions, etc...

Categorising Educational Applications Which Use Computer and Communications Technologies In this article, the "emphasis is on using technology to achieve educational consequences that might otherwise have been largely beyond our reach, while at the same time attempting to remain within realistic cost constraints."

Teaching Inventory (Cross & Angelo) Online: Determine how your teaching style!

Another Online Teaching Goals Inventory c/o University of Iowa

Collaboarive Learning (College 1) A great site for information regarding collaborative learning and assessments

Carnegie Classification of Academic Institutions This site defines the criteria that allows schools to be categorized (eg. Research, Doctoral, Master's, Baccalaureate, etc..The following link (Directory of Institutions (U.S. only) by Carnegie Classification) lists schools based on these criteria.

The Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) at Tufts University seeks to facilitate and to contribute to an ongoing conversation on teaching and learning matters. From time to time, in response to faculty requests, it publishes papers on subjects of interest to the Tufts teaching community. These papers include hot topics such as ethics, teaching large classes, mentoring, evaluation of teaching and grading

Teaching Goals Inventory - Figure out what you want to teach and how to do it!

Learning Style Inventories - Use these quizzes to better understand how your students learn. Reflection on the answers will lead you to appreciate the differences in students' learning styles.

Essential Demographics of Today's College Students (Edmund J. Hansen published in: AAHE-Bulletin, vol. 51, no. 3, November 1998)

Who Needs These Headaches? Reflections on Teaching First-Year Engineering Students (R. M. Felder)This article describes a few ideas and notions that will reflect on teaching any set of FIRST YEAR students.

New and Old Paradigms of Teaching Compares the old manner and new approaches to teaching in tabular form

Improvements, Suggestions or bad link? Please let me (kleinman@chem.columbia.edu) know!