Teaching Excellence Articles The POD Network (Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education) presents essays on Teaching Excellence. These essays present thoughtful and useful viewpoints from which college teachers can look at their practice of instruction. To view the above mentioned articles: Teaching Excellence Reading Packets The POD Network's (Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education) reading packets are designed for use in consultations, workshops, seminars, and classes when a focus on a particular topic is desired. Written by expert scholar-practitioners, these thoughtful and succinct essays consist of two pages each. They will be useful as cohesive readings for your faculty development workshops, seminars, individual consultations, and classes on college teaching.   To view the above mentioned packets: Technology Tools for Teaching Respondus Respondus is tool for creating and managing exams that can be printed to paper or published directly to Blackboard, eCollege, WebCT and other eLearning systems. Exams can be created offline using a familiar Windows environment, or moved from one eLearning system to another. Whether you are a veteran of online testing or relatively new to it, Respondus will save you hours on each project. View a variety of demos for creating exams that can be used in WebCT, downloading test banks, and much more. Teaching Web Resources Click here to view an annotated Webliography on the scholarship of teaching from the American Library Association. Click here to view a variety of teaching tools from the Google Web Directory. Click here to view a collection of papers created by the Center for Teaching Excellence at Iowa State University that address typical issues in the college classroom. Click here to visit the Educator's Reference Desk which provides a search interface to the ERIC database, providing access to over one million records on educational research, theory and practice. Click here to view MIT's opencourseware which includes notes, syllabi, exams, reading lists and often the actual readings for courses in various disciplines.
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