Virtual Faculty Support Sites
In this area you will find various resource links to help you with your teaching. These "virtual" sites are available to you 24/7 to provide instructional materials and strategies to promote success as an educator in the MCC learning community.
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MCC Faculty Professional Development Program
This site links directly to the Faculty Professional Development Team (FPDT) Web Page. In addition to an index of resources related to teaching, learning and assessment, this site provides information on staff and program development, eLearning and instructional technology, and a calendar of faculty development events and opportunities.
MCC eLearning Program
A comprehensive site that provides useful information and resources for faculty who are engaged in eLearning teaching or for those faculty who are interested in learning more about distance education and its application at MCC.
MCC Library Services
This site brings you directly to the Faculty Development resource page maintained by MCC library staff. It offers a variety of sources for help with research or professional development.
MCC FIPSE Program
This grant program has focused on making MCC a learning-centered college. This site provides faculty with information and resources related to active learning in the classroom, teaching critical thinking across the curriculum, and integrating 21st century core skills across the general education curriculum.
Faculty Development Resources, Honolulu Community College, Honolulu, HI
This "teaching tips" index provides a vast collection of resources for both the beginning and experienced instructor. This robust resource site alone can serve most faculty development needs.
Classroom Management Strategies and Techniques
Good classroom management is critical to creating a good learning environment. This link has a collection of websites from various colleges and other sources to help you effectively prevent or address student behavioral problems in the classroom.
Web-Based Resources, Lewis A. Armstrong, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS
A multidisciplinary educational gateway to electronic journals and a continuously growing selection of websites related to teaching and research. These web-based resources are conveniently organized under academic areas. It offers a variety of search engines for finding information on specific topics of interest.
National Learning Communities Project, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
This Learning Community Commons is a rich resource for strengthening learning community efforts on individual campuses. In addition, to excellent informational resources on learning communities, there is a searchable directory that currently houses descriptions of 200 learning community initiatives across the nation.
Conference Alerts for Academic Conferences Worldwide
This site allows you to subscribe to receive free e-mailed updates of conferences matching your academic interests, available dates and preferred destinations.
Best Practices in Higher Education, Center for Teaching Effectiveness, University of Delaware
A robust collection of resources that focus on the facilitation of an active, student-centered teaching-learning process. Some of the major resource areas include: Active Learning, Assessment and Evaluation, Critical Thinking, Collaborative Learning, Instructional Technology, Large Class Resources, Learning-Centered Syllabus, Learning Styles, Problem-Based Learning, Seven Principles, Teaching Students with Disabilities, Teaching Portfolios, The Writing Initiative, Tips for Good Practice (materials & resources).
Multi-media Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT)
MERLOT is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty in higher education. Links to online learning materials are collected here along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments. A number of specific disciplinary areas are included: Biology, Business, Chemistry, Engineering, Health Science, History, Information Technology, Mathematics, Music, Physics, Psychology, Teacher Education, Teaching and Technology, and World Languages.
Landmarks for Schools, David Warlick, The Landmark Project, Raleigh, NC
This highly lauded educational website provides faculty with links to teaching and learning resources and useful Web tools for courses in the natural sciences, social studies, and language and literature. It has an extensive collection of reference materials as well as still and animated images, and raw statistical data for classroom instruction. The Library of Links allows instructors to create, organize and maintain their own personal internet library of web-based information resources. The Citation Machine will automatically create bibliographic citations in MLA or APA formats. Many helpful instructional web tools (i.e. assessment rubric builder) for the classroom and distance education teacher are provided.
Teaching Effectiveness Program, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
This is site provides a comprehensive set of teacher training modules that focus on the new teacher, learner-centered teaching, strategies for effective large class teaching, teaching to diversity, and integrating technology into one’s teaching. This is an excellent site.
The Faculty Room, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
This site is a good resource for faculty at postsecondary institutions who wish to learn how to create classroom and distance education environments and activities that maximize the learning of students with disabilities.
