• B.A.T. Cave : The Teaching and Learning Resource Center site at Mercer County Community College.
   

• A Berkeley Compendium of Suggestions for Teaching with Excellence : An older site with suggestions for teaching excellence.
   

• The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching : The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching is an independent policy and research center with a primary mission "to do and perform all things necessary to encourage, uphold, and dignify the profession of the teacher and the cause of higher education."
   

• CDFI (Collaborative Faculty Development Initiative) calendar : FAQs for using the calendar are at: http://media.njit.edu/CFDI/faq.htm.
   

• The Chronicle of Higher Education : is the No. 1 source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.
  
  Selected articles:
   

  Turning Traditional Courses Into Distance Education 8/4/2000 Instructors May Struggle in Online Courses Inherited From Others 8/1/2000 - LOGGING IN WITH . . . Rena M. Palloff and Keith Pratt Study Groups Let Online Students Interact as They Would in a Classroom 5/31/2000 - Electronic Classroom Scholar Says "Learning by Doing" Is the Key to Quality Instruction 5/30/2000 - LOGGING IN WITH . . . Richard H. Hall

   

• City College of San Francisco : a variety of resources identified to support faculty as they seek to increase student success. Some materials describe active learning strategies that are designed to increase student involvement in learning, while others offer best practices in teaching and learning throughout higher education, particularly as they relate to the needs of the at-risk student.
   

• Classroom 2000 Related Work & Ideas - a list of older links to other web sites foc
  using on distance and virtual learning, as well as technology for the classrooms. Sponsored by Georgia Tech.
   

• Cmap Tools : The CmapTools program empowers users to construct, navigate, share and criticize knowledge models represented as concept maps. The software is free.
   

• College of the Redwood Center for Teaching Excellence : This site is from President Crabills' former college, and was developed to support faculty across the district in efforts to improve or enhance the teaching and learning climate at the college.
   

• Community College Week : brings you the news about issues affecting the nation’s community, technical and junior colleges not provided by other sources - and it is currently read by more than 18,500 two-year college professionals!
   

• DIVERSE: Issues In Higher Education (formerly Black Issues In Higher Education) is America’s
  preeminent news magazine for professionals in higher education, analyzing issues and trends with an emphasis on people of color and other underrepresented minority groups.
   

• ED.GOV : The U.S. Department of Education's website.
   

• EDUCAUSE : a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology. Here is the link for EDUCAUSE's Teaching and Learning page.
   

• EDSITEment : The Best of the Humanities on the Web offers links to Web sites, lesson plans divided according to K-12 grade level, professional opportunities, and special features that cover a wide range of humanities subjects, from American history to literature, world history and culture, language, art, and archaeology. The sites have been judged by humanities specialists to be of high intellectual quality. From the National Endowment for the Humanities in partnership with the National Trust for the Humanities, and the Verizon Foundation.
   

• The Encyclopedia of Educational Technology :  a collection of short multimedia articles on a variety of topics related to the fields of instructional design and education and training. The primary audiences for the EET are students and novice to intermediate practitioners in these fields, who need a brief overview as a starting point to further research on specific topics. Authors are graduate students, professors, and others who contribute voluntarily. Articles are short and use multimedia to enrich learning rather than merely decorate the pages.
   

• History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web  : A gateway to Web resources and a repository of unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents. The first section, “Many Pasts,” features more than 1,000 primary documents, including photographic images and audio interviews. Making Sense of Evidence provides strategies for analyzing online primary materials, with interactive exercises, a guide to traditional and online sources, and audio clips in which leading scholars interpret the document and discuss strategies for overall analysis. The final section, “www.history,” contains brief reviews of more than 800 Web sites that address various aspects of American history. In the section “Secrets of Great History Teachers,” distinguished teachers share their strategies and techniques for teaching history.
   

• Innovation Showcase : from LEAGUE, this series features the distinctive ways community colleges engage with the communities they serve.
   

• IT Conversations : Created in June 2003 by Doug Kaye, this site contains interviews, discussions, heated debates, and presentations from major conferences on a wide range of IT topics including social innovation, technology development, and global security.  Examples of those interviewed include Clayton Christensen, professor, Harvard Business School, Tim O’Reilly, O’Reilly Media, Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school's Center for Internet and Society, and Steve Wozniak, co-founder, Apple Computer.  Listeners rate each interview.
   

• League for Innovation : Getting Results Faculty Development modules. Getting Results, a free, online, multimedia professional development course for training community college faculty, produced by WGBH-TV in association with the League, is available online at no cost (http://www.league.org/gettingresults), and a CD version is available for purchase through the League Store (http://www.leaguestore.org).
  
  The modules focus on the teaching of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, specifically in Advanced Technology Education classrooms. The videos accompanying the modules include real teachers and students in real classroom settings across the country, representing a range of fields, institutions, programs, and subject areas.
   

• Learning Abstracts : from LEAGUE, this series fosters continuing "conversations on learning" and chronicles the efforts of community colleges that are moving toward becoming more learning-centered institutions.
   

• LEARNING FROM CHANGE: Landmarks in Teaching and Learning : The book chronicles the reports on higher education appearing over a 30 year period in Change, The Magazine of Higher Learning, published by the Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation (Heldref Publications) under the editorial leadership of the American Association for Higher Education.
  
  The excerpt posted here lists 27 major developments that changed teaching and learning in higher education over the past 30 years.
  
  The book is by Stylus Publishing in association with the American Association for Higher Education. To order, visit AAHE's online publications catalog at www.aahe.org/catalog.
   

• Managing—and Motivating!—Distance Learning Group Activities : To promote learning, you will want to structure online activities to encourage the kind of student interactions and active learning that foster deep learning.  Deep approaches to learning -- learning for understanding -- are integrative processes where students synthesize and connect material to existing knowledge.
   

• Manatee Comm. Coll. Virtual Faculty Support WEB Site for Facilitating Student Learning : Developed as the result of a Title III grant at this Florida community college. In this site you will find various resource links to help you with your teaching. These "virtual" sites are available to you 24/7 to provide instructional materials and strategies to promote success as an educator.
   

• Mercer County College Best Practices Conference 2006 : The 2006 Best Practices Conference held on April 28, 2006 at Mercer County Community College was a wonderful success, bringing members of the community college sector together with a series of presentations and information exchanges.  We are pleased to host a collection of Best Practices presentations in downloadable PDF format.
   

• MIT's OpenCourseWare : A website at MIT which allows access to course materials prepared for MIT courses and available free online.
   

• MIT World : MIT World™ is a free and open site that provides on-demand video of significant public events at MIT.
   

• National Institute for Staff & Organizational Development (NISOD) : An organization which emphasizes the importance of teaching excellence in open-door settings. Our conferences and publications endeavor to reinforce the primacy of teaching and to celebrate instructors programs that make good on the promise of the open door. Publishers of "Innovation Abstracts".
   

• The National Teaching & Learning Forum : A periodical devoted to discussion of teaching and learning in higher education. It requires a subscription, but has a complimentary article each month.
   

• New Horizons for Learning Teaching and Learning Strategies : Information on some of the best researched and the most widely implemented methods of helping all students to learn more successfully. The information includes a description of how the teaching and learning strategies work, where they have been applied, results, and where to find further information from experts in the field, books, websites, and other resources.
   

• On Course : Resources to support your efforts for improving student academic success and retention. These are the folks who send out the "On Course Newsletter".
   

• Online Teaching & Learning Newsletter : For resources and information on On line education and Online learning.
   

• Problem-Based Learning Faculty Institute : This site from the University of California, Irvine, provides an overview of problem-based learning and specific examples for a variety of disciplines.
   

• Purdue University’s Online Writing Lab : This site includes a number of writing guides and related material, including The Writing Lab Newsletter, which brings together helpful information about tutoring theory, methodology, and training writing tutors. Also contains a substantial number of documents on grammar, mechanics, literary analysis, and writing in the social sciences.
   

• Rutgers Writing Program GetIT : "GetIT" is short for Gaining Experience Teaching with Instructional Technology. The site contains tutorials in a variety of areas, including word processing, the web, general skills, and a variety of applications software. Additionally, there are activities such as: "Introducing tech to students", "Using tech for research", "Working with a new reading", "Anti-plagiarism exercises", and others.
   

• Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C) : The purpose of the Sloan Consortium is to help learning organizations continually improve quality, scale, and breadth of their online programs, according to their own distinctive missions, so that education will become a part of everyday life, accessible and affordable for anyone, anywhere, at any time, in a wide variety of disciplines.
  
  RVCC has access to Sloan-C's Premium member website. See instructions in the Email sent by Sheila Cancella on 9/27/06, or contact Steve Schwarz, CAITL Co-ordinator.
   

• Smart Board on-line training : A free 30-minute look at the basic functions of the SMART Board interactive whiteboard. You’ll learn:
  - How your interactive whiteboard works
  - How to orient your interactive whiteboard
   -How to work with applications on the interactive whiteboard
  - How to write on the interactive whiteboard and capture what you’ve written

What do I need for the session?
- A Windows-based computer with an Internet connection
- A telephone you can use while using the computer

• The Stanford University Center For Teaching and Learning : An index of the past mailings of Tomorrow's Professor.
   

• Teaching and Learning on the Web : A large, dynamic, searchable collection of hundreds of web sites that are used for learning.
   

• The TLT Group Faculty/Professional Development Program : The Teaching, Learning, and Technology Group (TLT Group) is a non-profit corporation.
   

• UC Berkeley courses & symposia : available through Google.
   

• UD Problem-based Learning Clearinghouse : The University of Delaware has been in the forefront for developing problem-based learning in the sciences. This site is a repository of work done at UD and elsewhere in a variety of disciplines.
   

• UMUC-Verizon Virtual Resource Site for Teaching with Technology : A resource for faculty seeking direction in appropriate ways to use Web-based technologies to accomplish key learning strategies. The guiding principle of this project is to go beyond technical skill towards a full examination of the teaching/learning issues in technology-enabled instruction.
   

• The World Lecture Hall (WLH) contains links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver university-level academic courses in any language.
   

• Writing Resources from Princeton University : The Princeton Writing Center contains a number of helpful essays on how to find and develop a paper topic, dealing with writing anxiety, and preparing to perform well on essay exams.