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    Online Instructional Resources

    A selected, annotated collection of links for university instructors

    We’ve reviewed hundreds of instructional resources on the Web and selected particularly useful sites to create this comprehensive Online Instructional Resources website.

    These diverse teaching and learning resources were reviewed, organized, and annotated to create 21 major categories subdivided into 172 subcategories. Each subcategory is arranged to give instructors both basic and advanced information on each topic.

    Teaching in the Disciplines is a new resource that is designed to complement the general and cross-disciplinary resources in the rest of the Online Instructional Resources website.

    Teaching to the Competencies is also a new resource that is designed to support MSU's Liberal Learning Goals and Outcomes as well as provide additional resources focused on competency-based education.

    The website is under active construction. It may take a year or more to provide resources on all the disciplines represented in our University. If you have a request for information about a topic not included here, or if you have a suggestion for a link that we should consider including, please email us at facdevel@msu.edu. We are checking these links and adding updated resources every semester. We welcome your input and feedback.

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    Teaching and Learning Resources

    1. Learners and Learning

    2. Curriculum / Instructional Design

    3. Teaching with Technology

    4. Teaching Methods

      4.1 Active Learning
      4.2 Asking and Answering Questions
      4.3 Best Practices
      4.4 Capstone Courses
      4.5 Case-based Teaching
      4.6 Civic Engagement
      4.7 Clinical Teaching
      4.8 Cooperative/Collaborative/Team Learning
      4.9 Creating an Effective Learning Climate
      4.10 Discussions
      4.11 Experiential/Out-of-Class Learning
      4.12 First Day(s) of Class
      4.13 Humor
      4.14 Integrative Learning
      4.15 Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning
      4.16 Learner-centered Teaching
      4.17 Lectures and Large Classes
      4.18 Liberal Education
      4.19 Mentoring Graduate Students
      4.20 Online Tutorials on Teaching
      4.21 Prior Knowledge and Misconceptions in Learning
      4.22 Problem Based Learning (PBL)
      4.23 Service-Learning
      4.24 Studio Teaching
      4.25 Critical Thinking
      4.26 Creativity, Teaching for
      4.27 Disciplinary Thinking
      4.28 First-Year Students
      4.29 Graduate Students
      4.30 Teaching in a Time of Crisis
      4.31 Laboratory Teaching
      4.32 Undergraduate Research
      4.33 Veterans in the Classroom
      4.34 Writing Across the Curriculum/Using Writing/ Designing Writing Assignments

    5. Multiculturalism / Diversity / Inclusive Classrooms

    6. Assessment

    7. Classroom Management/Academic Integrity

    8. Documenting and Evaluating Teaching

    9. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

    Resources for Teaching in the Disciplines

    10. Agriculture and Natural Resources

    11. Arts and Letters

    12. Business

    13. Communication Arts and Sciences

    14. Engineering

    15. Human Medicine

    16. Music

    17. Natural Science

    18. Osteopathic Medicine

    19. Social Sciences

    Resources for Teaching to the Competencies

    20. MSU’s Liberal Learning Goals and Outcomes

    21. Other Schools with Competency-Based Programs

    Please note that the OIR is an educational site. Its purpose is to provide information, tutorials, and instructional materials for higher education faculty to draw on for continuing growth as teachers. The OIR includes only links to non-commercial sites whose primary purpose is instructional development for higher education faculty, administrators, and related education professionals. The site does not include links to commercial, for-profit, or sites selling educational products, services, courses, or programs.