Many colleges and universities have faculty development centers (sometimes they are called "teaching excellence centers") with full time staff who serve as resources for professors and graduate teaching assistants. Their professional association is the Professional and Organization Development Network. Many of these centers have outstanding websites with a wide variety of useful material.  Some of TΦ101's favorites are:

 

• The on-line Teaching Tips Index  from the Honolulu Community College is one of the best organized sites that we have seen, with links to readable resources on many teaching questions. TΦ101 plans to go there to personally thank them for what a good job they are doing!

• The IDEA Center has a number of excellent resources including the IDEA papers.  These short, readable essays digest the research and give practical guidance and tips.  

• Brown University's Sheridan Center includes a helpful section on inclusive teaching..

• The University of Minnesota Center for Teaching and Learning has interesting tutorials on subjects such as active learning, using team projects, student wellbeing, and course design.

• Harvard's Derek Bok Center has lots of resources, we especially liked how well it is organized. 

• Northwestern University's Searle Center has a good resources page, with annotated bibliographies on various teaching topics. .

• The University of Michigan's, Center for Research on Teaching and Learning is a giant in the field, not surprisingly it has a lot of good materials. 

• The University of Buffalo Teaching and Learning Center's resources page includes links on a variety of topics.

• We also liked the resources page developed by the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching. Here, as with the Honolulu Community College site, all of the topics are written in a single voice.

• Clemson University's Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation has many resources including a top ten list of evidence-based teaching strategies.  They also have a helpful discussion of e-portfolios.

• The Center for Instructional Development and Research at the University of Washington has a some helpful resources on writing exams.  

•  The Wabash Center focuses on teachers of religion and theology. 

• Elon University's Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning has a helpful page on developing an inclusive classroom.

 

In developing this list I have drawn heavily on Peter Filene's list of teaching center resources in The Joy of Teaching (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005), pp. 155-156.

 

Update: June 30, 2012; April 2020