Required Texts

• Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers, W. J. McKeachie and M. Svinicki (Houghton Mifflin 2006, ISBN 0-618-51556-9).
• Teaching Engineering, P. C. Wankat and F. S. Oreovicz (Purdue University). Full pdf text free on-line Here.

On-Line Resources

Links on this page were accessed 11/22/2011. Report bad ones to the instructor.

    Specifically for the course:

• Course OWL-Space Site
• Dr. Richard M. Felder's Homepage. Dr. Felder is the Hoechst Celanese Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University, and has contributed hundreds of publications to the fields of science and engineering education; his web site is a vast resource of writings and references on engineering education.
• U-Minnesota Center for Teaching & Learning. A site with many useful resources, including
  • Workshops and Tutorials
  • Teaching Resources
• U-North Carolina Center for Teaching & Learning. Another useful site, including:
  • Resources and Tools
  • For Your Consideration essays on teaching topics.
  • Teaching at Carolina Handbook, covering a wide range of topics.

    Supplemental Links:

• Connexions, Rice University, http://cnx.org/. Connexions is an environment for collaboratively developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on the Web.
• OpenCourseWare, MIT. A web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content, lecture notes, exams, and videos; open and available to the world.
• World Lecture Hall, U-Texas, Austin. Entry point to free online course materials from around the world.
• The Mentor: An Academic Advising Journal, published by the Center for Excellence in Academic Advising, Pennsylvania State University.

Know of a good link you would like to add? Email it to me.

Supplemental Print Material

• Creating Significant Learning Experiences, L. Dee Fink (Jossey-Bass, 2003, ISBN 0-7879-6055-1).
• R. S. Anderson and B. W. Speck, Changing the Way We Grade Student Performance: Classroom Assessment and the New Learning Paradigm. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1998.
• E. Boyer, Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate ( Princeton, NJ: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1990). A challenge to consider broadening the definition of scholarship beyond discovery to include the scholarship of integration, application, and teaching.
• C. E. Glassick, M. T. Huber, and G. I. Maeroff, Scholarship Assessed: Evaluation of the Professoriate (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997). Follow up to Boyer. Evaluating teaching and faculty; teaching portfolios.
• G. O. Martin-Kniep, Capturing the wisdom of practice: professional portfolios for educators (Alexandria, Va: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1999, electronic resource).
• P. Seldin, Improving College Teaching (Bolton, MA: Anker Pub. Co., 1995). Evaluating teaching and teaching portfolios.
• P. Seldin, The teaching portfolio : a practical guide to improved performance and promotion/tenure decisions, 2nd ed. (Bolton, MA: Anker Pub. Co., 1997).
• D. D. Stevens and A. Levi, Introduction to Rubrics. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing, 2005.
• P. C. Wankat, R. M. Felder, K. A. Smith, and F. S. Oreovicz, “The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Engineering,” in Disciplinary Styles in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Exploring Common Ground, M. T. Huber and S. Morreale, Eds. (Washington, DC: AAHE/Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2002). Chapter 11. Also on-line.
• D. R. Woods, et. al, “Developing problem solving skills: The McMaster problem solving program,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 86, pp. 75-91, 1997.
• D. R. Woods, R. M. Felder, A. Rugarcia, and J. E. Stice, “The future of engineering education: Part 3. Developing critical skills,” Chemical Engineering Education, vol. 34, pp. 108-117, 2000.
• R. L. Wyatt III and S. Looper, So you have to have a portfolio : a teacher's guide to preparation and presentation (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Corwin Press, 1999).
• J. Zubizarreta, The Learning Portfolio (Boston, MA: Anker Publishing, 2004). Learning portfolios are similar to teaching portfolios, but record a student's journey through a course, program, or school; a useful learning tool.

 

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