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> Teaching and Learning Committee
New Faculty 2007
Dear New MSU Faculty,
During this year's Teaching Excellence Workshop, I was asked to post some resources online. I have posted the slides from the day's presentation as well as some links that Ritchie Boyd provided.
I also appreciated the suggestion from one of the attendees that information on sexual discrimination/consensual relationships would have been appropriate. I encourage you to review MSU's policies on these important issues. I was also asked about student demographics. There is some information in the Faculty Instructional Guide. Additional information is available here.
If you have other things you would like to see listed here (or suggest your own resources) please let me know. I also encourage you to spend some time looking at the resources on this web site.
Please let me know what we can do to assist in your success.
Cheers, Jeff
Power Point Slides
Link to Did You Know presentation
Wiki becomes textbook in Boston College classroom
IT prof says Web 2.0 technology boosts collaboration among students
Research Universities Resistant to Proven Science Instruction Methods
A report in The Chronicle of Higher Education finds that research universities tend to be reluctant to change teaching methods and curriculum to improve science instruction. Even when proven methods are presented to faculty and administration, they tend to become bogged down for a variety of reasons including lack of funding, entrenched teaching styles, and an emphasis on research productivity over teaching. Read the Chronicle article.
MSU has a chronicle subscription in case you haven't taken advantage of it.
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