Topics in Teaching
Topics in teaching are resources and short presentations designed to help faculty improve their teaching. Please see the presentations below; you will also find resources by topic in our Resource Center.
Academic Honesty
The Academic Policy Statement of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth can be found at: http://www.umassd.edu/studenthandbook/academicregs/ethicalstandards.cfm
- Resource Lists on Academic Dishonesty: Center for Academic Integrity
(Clemson)
http://www.academicintegrity.org/educational_resources/index.php - Plagiarism (Center for Intellectual Property and Copyright,
University of Maryland)
http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/links_plagiarism.shtml - Legal Issues in the United States
http://www.rbs2.com/plag.htm
- Copying Other Students' Work
http://www.webct.com/service/viewcontentframe?contentID=1348329
- Avoiding Plagiarism
In Online Learning: http://www.plagiarized.com
http://www.ion.uillinois.edu/resources/tutorials/assessment/cheating.asp
In Research Papers: http://www.virtualsalt.com/antiplag.htm
In General: http://teaching.berkeley.edu/bgd/prevent.html - Exercises, Tutorials to Teach Students
Exercises: http://www.ups.edu/x15212.xml
Tutorial: http://www.yorku.ca/tutorial/academic_integrity/index.html
http://www.fairfield.edu/documents/library/plagicourt.swf
Video Exercise: http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/douglass/sal/plagiarism/intro.html
Cognitive/Affective Learning
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth CASTL Project
http://dev.www.umassd.edu/facultydev/teaching/grants/castl.cfm
Course Design: a Web-based Tutorial
The Cutting Edge Project at Carleton College has made an excellent tutorial available to faculty on course design. Although written for course design in the geosciences, the basic process and consideration are much the same. The tutorial covers all the basics, and it is probably what we have all been introduced to before we set foot in a classroom. The tutorial can be found at: http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/coursedesign/tutorial/
First Day of Class Tactics
The first day of class is a very important time for faculty to establish a tone for what will happen the rest of the term. This article offers some ideas about that all important day.
The Most Important Day: Starting Well, Delivee L. Wright, Teaching and Learning Center, University of Nebraska.
