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website Problem Based Learning Clearinghouse
A collection of peer-reviewed problems, teaching notes, supplemental materials, and articles to assist educators in using problem-based learning in the classroom. Requires free online registration.
https://chico.nss.udel.edu/Pbl/
•  Active Learning & Problem Based Learning
website PBL for Large Classes
Simple orientation to Problem Based Learning with helpful how-to PDF files to download.
http://chemeng.mcmaster.ca/pbl/pbl.htm
•  Active Learning & Problem Based Learning
website Collaborative Versus Cooperative Learning
An essay that compares the two concepts to clarify the underlying nature of interactive learning
http://home.capecod.net/~tpanitz/tedsarticles/coopdefinition.htm
•  Collaborative Learning & Team-Based Learning
•  Active Learning & Problem Based Learning
website Doing Collaborative Learning
Walks faculty through a comprehensive process to design and implement in-class group learning techniques
http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/archive/cl1/CL/doingcl/DCL1.asp
•  Active Learning & Problem Based Learning
•  Collaborative Learning & Team-Based Learning
website From Lecture to Cooperative Learning
Case study by a professor who transformed his lecture class into a cooperative learning class.
http://depts.washington.edu/cidrweb/CooperativeLearning.html
•  Active Learning & Problem Based Learning
•  Collaborative Learning & Team-Based Learning
website The File Cabinet on Cooperative Learning
Numerous teaching techniques for collaborative and cooperative learning (apparently aimed at K-12, but useful for higher education as well).
http://home.att.net/~clnetwork/clfiles.htm
•  Active Learning & Problem Based Learning
•  Collaborative Learning & Team-Based Learning
website The Power of Teams for Powerful Learning
How to use team-based learning strategies in class. Lots of links.
http://atlas.services.ou.edu/idp/teamlearning/index.htm
•  Active Learning & Problem Based Learning
•  Collaborative Learning & Team-Based Learning
website Active Learning with Powerpoint
An online tutorial for using Power Point as a teaching tool
http://www1.umn.edu/ohr/teachlearn/tutorials/powerpoint/
•  Using Technology in the Classroom
•  Active Learning & Problem Based Learning
website Instructional Technology Connections
An extensive, authoritative site on learning theory and distance education, constructed by Martin Ryder at the University of Colorado at Denver, School of Education. Lots of research, definitions, academic papers, philosophical overviews.
http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itcon.html
•  Teaching Online
•  Active Learning & Problem Based Learning
website Clicking With Large Classes
In this interview, an assistant professor reflects on her choices and successes in teaching a large Intro to Anthropology lecture class: encouraging a "need to know" in her students, establishing an active learning environment, and getting students to prepare for class.
http://tep.uoregon.edu/resources/librarylinks/articles/clicking.html
•  Large Classes
•  Active Learning & Problem Based Learning
•  Teacher Self-Evaluation
website Focusing on Active, Meaningful Learning (pdf)
A short article in which a teaching-scholar defines what she means by “active and meaningful learning,” discusses unstructured cooperative learning and critical thinking, and reflects on experience in using these concepts in the courses she teaches and the textbooks she writes. Idea Paper no. 34, from the series developed by the Center for Faculty Evaluation and Development, Kansas State University.
http://www.theideacenter.org/sites/default/files/Idea_Paper_34.pdf
•  Critical Thinking
•  Active Learning & Problem Based Learning
•  Designing Courses & Writing a Syllabus
•  Best Practices
•  Large Classes
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