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August, 2001 Editor's Corner
Welcome back from a hopefully restful summer. As usual this issue contains links to a variety of sites that may be of interest to faculty, staff, or administrators.
Cheers,
Bruce
Comments and suggestions are always welcome. Send them to blbird@mail.aacc.cc.md.us
Faculty View
Online Instructor Cautions Against Having Too Many Activities
Tenure (pdf file) Instructional Evaluation And Faculty Development
Student View
Assessment How the Internet Will Help Large-Scale Assessment Reinvent Itself Faculty Resources
**The Technology Source (July/August 2001)
Syllabi on the Web for Women- and Gender-Related Courses
MIT Wins Grants to Make All Its Course Materials Free Online *Mining the 'Deep Web' With Specialized Drills
FAST "The FAST project is committed to providing users with a simple online tool for assessing their students' impressions of their courses and their teaching. Using the software does not cost anything so if this is your first visit, become a user and see if FAST would be useful for you and your students." Campus Compact "Campus Compact is a national coalition of more than 740 college and university presidents committed to the civic purposes of higher education. To support this civic mission, Campus Compact promotes community service that develops students' citizenship skills and values, encourages partnerships between campuses and communities, and assists faculty who seek to integrate public and community engagement into their teaching and research." Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education
Tutorials
Microsoft Word 2000 Tutorials ( PDF format)
K-12
*K12 William J. Bennett strikes (or strikes out?) again.
Senate Passes Major Revamp Of Education
NetDay Compass - your guide to ed tech resources
Performance Assessment Links in Science (PALS) - "PALS is an on-line, standards-based, continually updated resource bank of science performance assessment tasks indexed via the National Science Education Standards (NSES) and various other standards frameworks." This site covers K-12 science assessment. The Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation
Distributed Education
Distributed Education and Its Challenges: An Overview (481KB; pdf) ( 2001)
Distance Education: Facing the Faculty Challenge (Summer 2001- Volume 4, Number 2)
Teaching with Technology Center for Academic Transformation Instructional Technology Resources - Technology Enhanced Learning CLEO (Customized Learning Experiences Online) Lab
Web Page Design
e-Learning KnowledgeNet "KnowledgeNet combines the latest Web-based training techniques and leading-edge multimedia into breakthrough Cisco®, Microsoft®, and EMC® certification solutions that are available anytime, anywhere through the Internet." Trends?
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