Instructional Resources

Binghamton University's Center for Learning and Teaching offers support to Binghamton faculty and teaching staff to enhance student learning on campus. If students forget course content within weeks of months of a class, did learning really occur? The links below can help you bring students to learning that lasts.

Getting beyond lecture

• Don't Lecture Me: Rethinking How College Students Learn
  public radio documentary - audio, podcast and transcript
• Active Learning, Cooperative & Student-Centered Learning
  teaching strategies which can be more effective than traditional lectures
• Teaching as Research
  how teaching can also be research - videoconference featuring BU professor Tom O'Brien
• Community-based and Service Learning opportunities
  BU Center for Civic Engagement

Specific tools and techniques

• Immediate Feedback Assessment Technique
  a quiz or test which reinforces accurate responses and helps students learn during the quiz or test
• Technology tools available at BU (pdf 66kb)
• Technology tips best practices for audiovisual technology at BU
• Teaching Tip podcasts
  BU faculty share ideas that can help improve classes (short streaming videos)

Faculty sharing with faculty

• Quick Teaching Tips
• Tomorrow's Professor
  Articles and book excerpts about teaching, research, career issues, and more
• Faculty Focus
  includes short articles with practical ideas in 20 categories such as Effective Classroom Management and Teaching with Technology
• Course design (learning objectives, syllabus and more from Cornel University's Center for Teaching Excellence)
• Course and classroom management tips including setting appropriate expectations, what support is available on campus, who to contact for help, etc.

Within (yet beyond) disciplines

• Foreign  Language resources
• Case studies for teaching science