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Elmhurst College Institutional Review Board

Undergraduate Research

Council on Undergraduate Research - An organization that promotes and supports undergraduate research.  Elmhurst College is an institutional member and thus EC faculty may sign up for a free membership. CUR also runs a variety of well known and well received workshops and institutes such as CUR Dialogues focusing on funding resources,   Beginning a Research Program in the Natural Sciences at a Predominantly Undergraduate Institution and Creative Inquiry in the Arts and Humanities.

Perspectives on Undergraduate Research and Mentoring - A multidisciplinary online journal

International Opportunities

• IDEA Papers - short articles related to teaching and the evaluation of teaching.
• Structure of Observed Learning Outcomes (SOLO) a taxonomy for student learning objectives.
• Learning Taxonomies - a description of Bloom's Taxonomy and others from the University of Connecticut.
• The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard University has a collection of tip sheets on teaching.
• Learning Styles Don't Exist - a video from Cognitive Psychologist Daniel Willingham, Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia.
• Deep and Surface Approaches to Learning - From the Engineering Subject Center (but the resource is general and not discipline-specific).
• Thin Ice: Stereotype Threat and Black College Students - a very clear introduction to Stereotype Threat - by Claude Steele in the Atlantic
• Excepts from Tools for Teaching by Barbara Gross Davis
• Confessions of a Converted Lecturer (Video) - a talk by Eric Mazur - Professor of Physics at Harvard and a leader in peer instruction and the use of "clickers" in large classes.
• The Theory Underlying Concept Maps and How to Construct and Use Them by Joseph D. Novak & Alberto J. Cañas.
• Elmhurst College Intercultural Studies Program has extensive resource links for faculty.
• The Intercultural Communication Institute (ICI) offers a variety of programs. Elmhurst College faculty and staff have attended their Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication.
• Understanding Prejudice.org provides materials on the causes and consequences of prejudice.
• Upper Midwest Association for Intercultural Education (UMAIE)
• American Association of Colleges and Universities (AACU) has developed DiversityWeb
• Diversity Database from the University of Maryland provides an extensive set of resource links.
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• The Promising Syllabus - links related to "the promising syllabus" a concept developed by Ken Bain. The concept is described here by James Lang
• The Joy & Responsibility of Teaching Well - Videos of a workshop given by Dee Fink, taped at Eastern Illinois University.
• Integrated Course Design - An IDEA paper by Dee Fink
• Creating a Syllabus - by Barbara Gross Davis, U. C. Berkeley
• Learning-Centered Syllabi - Iowa State University, Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching

• Inbox Zero - Take control of your e-mail, by Merlin Mann
• 43 Folders - Productivity blog, by Merlin Mann
• Presentation Zen - Tips on presentation design, by Garr Reynolds
• Grammar Girl answers many pesky grammar questions.
• LifeHack.org - a productivity blog with tips on just about everything.
• Pomodoro (Tomato) Technique - Productivity meets kitchen timer.
• Getting Things Done Times - David Allen's Getting Things Done blog.