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This guide is an introduction to all resource guides created by the Hagerstown library. It also gives sources for general reference questions across all topics. The tabs are links to each program area as well as more specific topics.
Last update: Nov 13th, 2009 URL: http://hagerstown.kaplan.libguides.com/general  Print Guide  RSS Updates

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Books in the Library

You may access all the library books dealing with teaching issues here or you may type in 'teaching" in the search box above and select "catalog."

 

 

New Books on Teaching

These books are available in the library in the Teaching Section toward the back of the library.

  • Collarborative Learning Techniques - Elizabeth F. Barkley et al
    Call Number: LB1032.B318 2005
    ISBN/ISSN: 0787955183
  • Classroom Assessment Techniques - Thomas A. Angelo
    Call Number: LB2822.7.A54
    ISBN/ISSN: 1555425003
    This revised and greatly expanded edition of the 1988 handbook offers teachers at all levels of experience detailed, how-to advice on classroom assessment—from what it is and how it works to planning, implementing, and analyzing assessment projects. The authors illustrate their approach through twelve case studies that detail the real-life classroom experiences of teachers carrying out successful classroom assessment projects.
  • Best Practices for supporting adjunct faculty - Richard E. Lyons
    Call Number: LB1778.2.B475
    ISBN/ISSN: 1933371277
    This book provides research data on the initiatives highlighted, and valuable ideas for institutions expanding their professional development opportunities for part-time instructors
  • Teachers in Professional Communities - Ann Lieberman and Lynn Miller
    Call Number: LB1025.3.T43 2008
    ISBN/ISSN: 0807748897
  • Creating Significant Learning Experiences - L. Dee Fink
    Call Number: LB2331.F495 2003
    ISBN/ISSN: 0787960551
    Mr. Fink recently gave an In service training program for Kaplan Higher Education.
  • Earnings from learning: the rise of for-profit universities - David W. Breneman, editor
    Call Number: LB2328.52.E37 2006
    ISBN/ISSN: 0791468399
  • New players, different game: understanding the rise of for-profit colleges and universities - William G. Tierney and Guilbert C. Hentschke
    Call Number: LA227.4.T545 2007
    ISBN/ISSN: 0801886570
  • Stand your ground: building honorable leaders the West Point way - Evan H. Offstein
    Call Number: HD57.7.O37 2006
    ISBN/ISSN: 0275991431
  • Acheiving and sustaining institutional excellence for the first year of college - Betsy O. Barefoot et al
    Call Number: LB2343.4.A34 2005
    ISBN/ISSN: 0787971510
 
 

Table of Contents

 

NEWS

The Center for Teaching and Learning presented an online conference called KU Village on October 5-9, 2009. The theme this year is"Innovative approaches to maintaining quality during tough economic times." Click here for archived programs during the conference and online teaching tools that were presented in the Greenhouse. You will need your Kaplan ID.  

This is the latest newletter from the OIE, the Office of Institutional Effectiveness.

 

Recommended Teaching Websites

These are websites dealing with teaching issues that we find useful and in many cases fascinating. The first several sites are from Kaplan itself. Many provide free material and include videos, course syllabi, textbooks, lesson plans, images and many other items in this heady environment of change. For a list of online teaching tools to use to enhance your teaching, see the box below. 

  • APA Style Guide & Copyright Issues  
    These are links to the APA manual, to sites which can create citations in APA style, APA examples, and creating APA citations in Microsoft Word07.
    Also covered are links to copyright and fair use.
  • Kaplan Center for Teaching and Learning  
    This is Kaplan University's site for keeping up with teaching issues. They offer many online programs on teaching issues here at Kaplan. You will need your Kaplan log on to access this site. The Innovation Lab (see below) is part of this site.
  • Innovation Lab (Kaplan)  
      
    The CTL’s Innovations Lab of KHEC is a faculty-led incubator for teaching innovation in the online environment. Will Deboek runs this site and explores many of the latest and very cool teaching tools.
  • Books | EDUCAUSE  
    These are free full text books on various aspects of technology in education and teaching. Educause is a non-profit organization devoted to all aspects of using information technology in education.
  • Federal Resources for Educational Excellence  
      
    This U.S. government site is the portal to many resources from government agencies that aid in developing curricula for courses in the Arts & Sciences, history, languages, math, social studies. Describes each resource in detail & takes you to the website.
  • Google for Educators  
      
    Provides different tools for educators, such as Google docs, and offers collaborative techniques for teaching.
  • How to Organize Your Teaching - Essential Concepts  
    This is a Dept of Education site dealing with ways to organize your teaching. Contains audio-visual and written materials.
  • Merlot (Educational Materials for teachers)  
    MERLOT is a group of colleges that provide free higher education, online teaching and learning materials. You can also join and have a personal account and participate in blogs. The site has extensive course material in many different subject areas.
  • Open Educational Resources  
    These are courses & teaching materials developed mostly by teachers that have been released to the public domain for everyone's use. This is a vast collection and covers primary, secondary and higher education in many different formats.
  • Textbooks (Computer Science)  
    Many authors are providing textbooks free over the internet. This site includes free online computer science, engineering & programming books, textbooks and lecture notes. There are no pirated textbooks on this site.
  • Textbook Connections  
      
    Connexions is an environment for collaboratively developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on the Web. Contains educational materials for everyone — from children to college students to professionals. All content is free.
  • Career College Association  
      
    Membership organization represents career colleges nationwide. Provides political action, publications, a guide to career colleges, online training courses, and other resources.
  • The Chronicle of Higher Education  
      
    This weekly publication is the primary reporter of higher education news. Limited access can be obtained with a free online account. The library keeps issues for the last year or so.
  • Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration  
    Gives advice on setting up and conducting online classes. Dr. Larry Flegle of Kaplan University is on the Editorial Board.
  • POD Resources  
      
    These are faculty development resources, teaching resources, and suggested websites from the Professional Organizational and Development Network in Higher Education.
  • Professional Development Database  
      
    Select "Professional Development" from the databases on the right. Requires Kaplan ID. Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 550 full text journals, including over 350 peer-reviewed titles.
  • Significant Learning Website  
      
    Dr. Fink, who in 2007 led an In service training session for Kaplan Higher Education, established this site for creating courses that offer significant learning opportunities.
  • NATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER FOR THE FIRST-YEAR EXPERIENCE AND STUDENTS IN TRANSITION  
    This center focuses on the first-year college experience. It conducts research, holds conferences, publishes a journal and research findings, and has links to other sites.
  • Amazon Textbook Website  
    This is Amazon's site for new and used textbooks.
  • Youtube Educational  
    This is a new site established by Youtube to gather all the videos and channels provided by over 100 universities and colleges.
  • Films Used for Teaching  
    This is a list of feature films that can be used in classrooms for introducing various subjects and bringing them to life. Divided into categories and annotated. Films include 12 Angry Men, Goodwill Hunting, Super size me, etc.
  • Open thinking » 80 Videos for Tech  
    Here is a list of 80 videos both serious and amusing which are useful for showing students, administrators and faculty different aspects of the new social technology.
  • Best Web sites for Teaching and Learning  
    These are top sites selected by school librarians for teachers and students to organize, collaborate, share curricula and media, develop social networking and communication in virtual environments.
  • Education Commission of the States  
      
    The mission of the Education Commission of the States is to help states develop effective policy & practice for public education by providing data, research, analysis and leadership; & by facilitating collaboration, the exchange of ideas among the states.
  • Community College Survey of Student Engagement  
      
    This yearly survey tracks student learning, student effort, student faculty interaction, support for learners and other student engagement issues in community colleges.
 

Innovations Lab

The Innvations Lab is part of Kaplan's Center for Teaching and Learning. They demonstrate new and exciting teaching tools that faculty can use in their classes. The have online programs several times a month. Click on the events tab to see upcoming demonstrations. 


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Online Teaching Tools

  • Greenhouse (teaching tools)  
    These are a series of online tools that you can use to make podcasts, screencasts of online activity, online announcements, movies, and many other tools. You can see demos of how to do it and then examples of uses by instructors.
  • Jing Project (Online video creation)  
    This is an online tool that allows you to take a picture of your screen or even record your actions as you move around on the internet and then create a video which you can share with your students. The simple version is free.
  • Vimeo (upload videos)  
    You can upload your videos to this site. Similar to Youtube but better. Free for basic version.
  • Zorap.com (video chat room)  
    Create an online room which is password protected and allow your students to access it at the same time. You can then share videos, pictures, chat, voice, webcams (if you have one) and other files to everyone in the room. Free for basic version.
  • Slideshare  
    Upload and share your PowerPoint presentations, Word documents and Adobe PDF Portfolios on SlideShare. Share publicly or privately.
  • Drop.io  
    Need to give someone access to your files, pictures, video on the internet. Go to drop.io and in 2 steps you can create an upload and create a link to the file (up to 100MB) for free.
 

Teaching Research

 

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Retention

  • The Power of Retention  
    This is an excerpt from Neil Raisman's new book The Power of Retention. Mr. Raisman is a prolific writer on retention and customer service in Higher Education.
  • Center for the study of College student retention  
    CSCSR's aim is to provide researchers and practitioners with a comprehensive resource for finding information on college student retention and attrition. Publishes a journal and a blog and links to specific issues in student retention.
  • ACT Site for Student Retention  
    This site from the ACT testing service gives trends in student retention for different types of schools and gives reports of successful efforts in retaining students.
 
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