Links & Listservs
Listed below are a few links to sites and lists that we believe offer faculty and staff opportunities for additional support, growth, renewal, and reflection.
LINKS:
- UVic Learning and Teaching Centre
- The Learning and Teaching Centre at the University of Victoria offers resources, consultation, and a forum for discussion to help instructors provide a valuable learning experience to all students. Workshops are presented on an ongoing basis.
- The Centre for Teaching and Academic Growth
- The Centre for Teaching and Academic Growth is a central source of support for teaching and learning at UBC..
- Faculty Development.ca
- Faculty development.ca is designed to enable new and existing faculty in Canadian universities to enhance teaching and learning.
- University of Phoenix Online
- The University of Phoenix offers online education with complete degree programs.
- 4faculty.org
- 4faculty.org is an online professional development network of resources and learning modules designed specifically for the needs of community college faculty. This site was created to share ideas, acquire new tools for teaching, and is updated regularly with new materials and ideas.
- The Carnegie Foundation
- A good resource for quick links to other resources including an e-library (collection of articles and essays available for online reading or download).
- Inventio
- Inventio is an electronic journal from George Mason University. The journal is a source of creative thinking about learning and teaching.
- Instructional Skills Workshops Network
- This website is designed to support the work of professional and instructional development professionals who are offering Instructional Skills Workshops.
- BCCAT
- The British Columbia Council on Admissions & Transfer provides BCCAT Online in response to the needs of B.C.'s Transfer System. The main buttons on the home page lead to a comprehensive compendium of transfer credit and related information.
- The Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE):
- The STLHE electronic mail forum has been active since October 1988 and has over 500 subscribers. The purpose of the forum is to exchange opinions, ideas and experiences of concern to STLHE members and others who are interested in the subject of teaching and learning in higher education.
- Tomorrow’s Professor:
- Tomorrow’s Professor is desk-top faculty development delivered one hundred times a year. It is a shared mission partnership with the American Association for Higher Education, the National Teaching and Learning Forum and the Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning.
- The Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD):
- POD fosters human development in higher education through faculty, instructional, and organizational development. The POD Network provides this electronic mailing list as a service to its members and others interested in faculty, instructional, and organizational development. The purpose of the POD electronic mail list is to facilitate the meaningful exchange of information and ideas. Subscribers are encouraged to use the list to seek answers to questions, to ask others how they have done something, to inquire about program activities, to post job openings or conference announcements, or even to share "success" stories.