Teaching and Learning Resources

Final Document

• Final Teaching and Learning Foundational Document (Dec 2008)
• TLFD Attachment One - Student Surveys

Teaching and Learning Resources

The following resources include websites, articles and videos related to teaching and learning.
For a brief description, hold your mouse over the title of resource (descriptions not available for all resources).

Videos

• McGraw-Hill Ryerson 2006 Teaching, Learning and Technology Conference (2006)
  • What the Best Teachers Do – Ken Bain [Keynote Video – 94 min. and Discussion Video – 70 min.]
  • Teaching for Better Learning in a Research University – Christopher Knapper [Keynote Video – 89 min. / Article (2005) ]
  • Treating Students as Adults – Facilitating Rather Than Lecturing – Todd Nickle [Keynote Video – 99 min.]

Teaching Materials at Other Institutions

All reports are in Adobe PDF format unless stated otherwise.

• Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)
  • AAC&U Home Page (html)
  • Why Teacher-Scholars Matter (2007)
  • A Focus on Poverty – Bonner Series on Student Civic Engagement (2007)
  • What if Faculty Really Do Assume Responsibility for the Educational Program? (2007)
  • College Learning for the New Global Century (2007)
  • Greater Expectations (2002)
• Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching – Program Areas (html)
• Kellogg Commission on the Future of State and Land-Grant Universities
  • A Learning Society (1999)
  • Student Access (1998)
  • The Student Experience (1997)
• National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) (html)
• Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (html)
• University of Melbourne
  • University of Melbourne Learning and Teaching (html)
  • Learning and Teaching Plan 2007
  • Graduate Certificate in University Teaching (The Melbourne Certificate) (2007)
  • Nine Principles Guiding Teaching and Learning in the University of Melbourne (2002) – The framework for a first-class teaching and learning environment.
• University of Saskatchewan
  • University Learning Centre (html) – Provides resources for Transforming Teaching and Fostering Learning.
  • Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching Effectiveness (html) – Dedicated to championing teaching at the University of Saskatchewan.
• University of Sydney
  • Teaching Matters (2006)
  • Principles Informing Learning and Teaching (2006)
  • Teaching Performance Indicators (2006)
  • Performance Based Funding of Teaching (2003)
  • Guidelines for Improving Learning and Teaching Through Collaboration, Benchmarking and Alliances (2006)
  • Improving Learning and Teaching Through Collaboration, Benchmarking and Alliances (2006)
  • Learning and Teaching Plan 2007-2010
  • Learning & Teaching (html) – Includes Teaching Matters, an overview of the philosophy of teaching at the University of Sydney, plus information on planning, quality enhancement and evaluation.
  • Faculty Learning & Teaching Plans (html) – Includes the strategic plans, updates and operational plans for each faculty at the University of Sydney. Academic Board Faculty Reviews 2001-2004 Report on the Strengths, Weaknesses and Areas of Improvement.
• University of Wisconsin – Madison (html)

Scholarly Articles

All reports are in Adobe PDF format unless stated otherwise.

• Reinventing Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for America’s Research Universities – Boyer Commission (1996)
• From Teaching to Learning – A New Paradigm for Undergraduate Education – Barr and Tagg (1995)
• Assessment, Accountability and Student Learning Outcomes – Frye (1999)
• The Future of Higher Education: A View from CHEMA (2006)
• The Key to Competitiveness: Understanding the Next Generation Learner (2004)
• Learning Reconsidered: A Campus-wide Focus on the Student Experience (2004)
• The Lighting of a Fire: Re-imagining the Undergraduate Learning Experience – U of Guelph (2005)
• Enabling Teaching and Learning and the Student Experience – U of Toronto (2004)
• Strategies for Improving Student Success in Postsecondary Education (2007)
• Teaching at Stanford: An Introductory Handbook (2007)
• Technology and Student Success in Higher Education (2006)
• Community, Conflict and Ways of Knowing (1987)
• A Compact to Enhance Teaching and Learning at Harvard (2007)
• Connecting the Dots (2007)