“Essays on Teaching Excellence: Toward the Best in the Academy” available free to OHIO University faculty: http://www.ohiou.edu/teacher/pod/

For access (login and password) contact Steve Davis @ 32190 or email daviss2@ohio.edu. 

Reading Packet 1: Alternatives to Traditional Teaching Methods and Learning Strategies

1. Academic Service-Learning: Myths, Challenges, and Recommendations, Jeffrey Howard

2. Learning Outside the Box: Making Connections Between Co-curricular Activities and the Curriculum, Myra Wilhite and Liz Banset

3. Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning, Deborah Dezure

4. Writing to Learn, Judith and Calvin Kalman

5. Team Teaching: The Learning Side of the Teaching -Learning Equation, Mary Jean Eisen and Elizabeth Tisdell

6. Creating a Culture of Co-Learners with Problem Based Learning, Kristi Arndt

7. Mentorship in the Classroom: Making the Implicit Explicit, Deanna Martin, Robert Blanc, and David Arendale

8. Spectators and Gladiators: Reconnecting the Students with the Problem, John Boehrer

9. Active Learning Beyond the Classroom, Ed Neal

1. Cooperative Learning: It's Here to Stay, Barbara J. Millis

2. Foundations of Collaboration, Gail Goodyear Muir and Sally Blake

3. Problem-based Learning: Preparing Students to Succeed in the 21st Century, Barbara Duch, Deborah Allen, and Hal White

4. Three Keys to Using Learning Groups Effectively, Larry Michaelson

5. Collaborative Learning: Reframing the Classroom, Jean MacGregor