Miller Center of Public Affairs Syllabi Collection
Syllabi from scholars on a variety of courses that address topics that pertain to Governing America in a Global Era.
Evaluating news sites: Credible or Clickbait?
As people rely more and more on social media to get their news, the filter bubble becomes increasingly problematic. In this workshop, students learn how to evaluate whether a news site is reliable. This group activity takes about 30 minutes and can be used for many different audiences by adjusting the examples used.
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Pass the Problem
This group activity can be used in a variety of disciplines and contexts. Pass the Problem aims to have students provide feedback to other students on database and keyword selection. By having students critique each other it works to build critical self-reflection during the research process (it's also pretty fun!).
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Minds Online: Teaching Effectively with Technology
Minds Online is a concise, nontechnical guide for academic leaders and instructors who seek to advance learning in this changing environment, through a sound scientific understanding of how the human brain assimilates knowledge.
Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher
Stephen D. Brookfield offers a very accessible guide to how faculty at any level and across all disciplines can improve their teaching.
How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School
Reports on a 2-year study conducted by the Committee on Developments in the Science of Learning.
SOS for Information Literacy
S.O.S. for Information Literacy is a dynamic web-based multimedia resource for educators that promises to make a significant contribution to enhancing the teaching of information literacy skills to students in K-16
Finding Data for Self, Community & Society- Part 1
Students will learn to identify where they might find school and community data; practice accessing this data; and create a school community data profile. Students will also be introduced to some of the problems of bias when looking at school and community data. For part one, student will find data for the high school they attended and the community they grew up in. In part two, students will collect the same data for a school in the community they will be working in over the course of the quarter.
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Annotated Bibliography / Introduction to Disciplines
This annotated bibliography assignment has five different versions for five different groups of disciplines: arts, humanities, social analysis (social sciences), life and physical sciences, and quantitative reasoning. Each is meant to give students a way to identify and explore the key types of scholarly sources in those disciplinary categories; for example, to understand what is meant by a primary source in each category.
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The National Teaching and Learning Forum
Practice-focused newsletter with summations of SoTL findings, plus columns on “what works” for assignments and in-class teaching.
Support of SoTL By Discipline
A list of organizations, journals, and programs that offer support related to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in a particular discipline from Illinois State University.
Teaching Commons
The Teaching Commons brings together high-quality open educational resources from leading colleges and universities. Curated by librarians and their institutions, the Teaching Commons includes open access textbooks, course materials, lesson plans, multimedia, and more.
Trinity Univ. Curriculum Development Database
Information literacy resources for curriculum development are browsable by discipline, goal, and/or level.
DQP Assignment Library
This resource is funded by The National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA). It is a searchable online library of collegiate-level course assignments in a wide variety of academic disciplines that link to one or more proficiencies in the Degree Qualifications Profile (DQP). The assignments and commentaries here are works in progress, generously shared by faculty members from a wide range of fields and institutional types committed to advancing and documenting student learning.
Merlot
MERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community.