Books, Journals, Videos
The Center’s reference area has a variety of resources to assist faculty. Some of the most frequently used materials are listed below. Please visit our lab for additional titles/topics.
Books and Journals
Advising/Mentoring
- Academic Advising as a Comprehensive Campus Process
- Advising and Learning: Academic Advising from the Perspective of Small Colleges and Universities
- Advising Students with Disabilities
- First Year Academic Advising: Patterns in the Present, Pathways to the Future
Teaching
- 147 Practical Tips for Teaching Professors
- Changing Practices in Evaluating Teaching
- Cooperative Learning for Higher Education Faculty
- Coping with Misconduct in the College Classroom
- Dilemmas in Teaching: Cases for Collaborative Faculty
- Energize your Audience!
- Evaluating Teaching in Higher Education
- Games That Teach, Experiential Activities for Reinforcing Training
- Handbook for College Teaching
- Improving College Teaching
- Learning Styles Perspectives
- Professors Are from Mars, Students Are from Snickers
- Putting Students at the Center: A Planning Guide to Distributed Learning
- Student-Assisted Teaching
- Teaching Tips
- Technology in Teaching and Learning
- The Best of The Teaching Professor
- The Teaching Portfolio
- The Wireless Professor
- The Pathway to Success- Developing the Skills to Critical Thinking
- Turning Professors into Teachers
Electronic Learning/Distance Learning
- Copyright and Distance Education
- Creative Teaching at a Distance with Merging Technologies
- Engaging Students in Distance Learning
- Handbook for Instructional Design for Distance Learning
- Teaching Online (A Practical Guide)
- The Distance Learner's Guide
- Towards More Effective Open & Distance Teaching
- Understanding Learners in Open and Distance Education
Service-Learning/Civic Engagement
- A Practitioner's Guide to Reflection in Service Learning: Student Voices & Reflection
- Assessing Service Learning and Civic Engagement
- Civic Engagement across the Curriculum
- Engaged Institutions: Impacting the Lives of Vulnerable Youth through Place Based Learning
- Essential Service Learning Resources
- Facilitating Reflection: A Manual for Higher Learning
- Faculty Guide to Service Learning
- Faculty Resource Guide: Service Learning as an In Course Option
- Introduction to Service Learning ToolKit
- Learning In Deed
- Rethinking Tradition: Integrating Service with Academic Study on College Campuses
- Service Learning Curriculum A Guide for Developing Project Management Skills
- Service Matters: A Sourcebook for Community Service in Higher Education
- The Complete Guide to Service Learning
- What's New in Service Learning: Inside and Outside the Classroom
- Where's the Learning in Service Learning
Research Support
- Designing and Conducting Survey Research
- Dictionary of Statistics and Methodology
- Fundamentals of Statistics
- How to Use SPSS
- SPSS for Dummies
- Statistical Analysis with Excel for Dummies
- Statistical Inference for Educational Researchers
- Statistics for Dummies
- Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences
- Statistics for the Terrified
- Statistics in Psychology and Education
- Statistics with Microsoft Excel
Software Support
- A Guide to Oracle
- Adobe User guides for Audition, GoLive 6.0, Illustrator, and Photoshop
- Data Analysis with Microsoft Excel
- Final Cut Pro 3 Tutorials and User's Manuals
- HTML
- iMovie for Macintosh
- Internet Programming (with VBScript and JavaScript)
- Jasc Paint Shop Pro 7
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Microsoft Office 2007 All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies
- Microsoft Office XP
- Microtek ScanWizard Pro User's Guide
- Paint Shop Pro 9 User Guide
- Second Life
- The Little SAS Book
Other
- Copyright, Faculty, Fair Use, and Digital Age
- Presentation Skills for Powerful Presentations
- Serving on: Promotion, Tenure, and Faculty Review Committees
- Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You
Previously recorded Videos/Online Seminars
Teaching
- Ask Me to Think (21-Mar-01)
- Building New Communities of Learners and Teachers (19-Apr-99)
- Changing Practices in Evaluating Teaching (24-Mar-00, 2 hr)
- Engaging Commuter Students (26-Apr-01, 3 hr)
- Engaging Students in Learning (6-Mar-03)
- Faculty on the Front Lines: Reclaiming Civility in the Classroom (8-Apr-99)
- Forging Educational Partnerships: A Key to Student Learning and Success (27-Apr-00, 3 hr)
- How Students Learn Versus How Faculty Teach (12-Nov-07)
- Learning About Learning Communities: Taking Student Learning Seriously (19-Apr-99, 3 hr)
- Mission: Possible Teaching Strategies to Help Today’s Students Realize Their Potential (12-Nov-07)
- Promote and Protect Academic Integrity on Your Campus (22-Nov-99, )
- Teaching for Inclusion: Diversity in the College Classroom (Summer, 2001)
- The Pathway to Success: Developing the Skills to Critical Thinking (13-Nov-98)
Electronic Learning/Distance Learning
- 10 Ways to Improve Blended Learning Course Design (11-Mar-09, 1 hr 30 min)
- Cheating and Plagiarism Using the Internet (03-Apr-03, 1 hr 30 min)
- Control, Conflict, and Courseware: Intellectual Property in Online Education (08-Feb 01, 1 hr 30 min)
- Copyright in the Digital Millennium (01-Mar-00)
- Critical Challenges in Distance Education (17-Oct-02, 1 hr 30 min)
- Exemplary Models of Web Based Learning (7-Nov-99)
- Faculty Transformation: The Key to the Virtual Campus (23-Sep-99)
- How to Customize an Online Course (06-Apr-00, 1 hr 30 min)
- Improving Multimedia and Online Courses with Instructional Design (28-Feb-02, 1 hr 30 min)
- Innovative Uses of the Web to Enhance Learning (16-Apr-99, 1 hr 30 min)
- Online Testing: Assessment and Evaluation of Distance Learners (02-Dec-99, 1 hr 30 min)
- PBS Project ACCESS the Future of Online Student Services (18-Nov-99, 1 hr)
- Surviving and Thriving in Your First Online Course (18-Oct-01 (1hr 30 min)
- Using Information Technology in a Traditional Classroom (29-Nov-01, 1 hr 30 min)
- Using the Web to Enhance the Classroom (16-Apr-98, 2 hr)
- Videoconferencing: A Basic Guide to Teaching Videoconferencing Equipment (01-Jul-98)
- Virtual Universities: Online and On Target (03-Feb-00, 1 hr 30 min)
Service-Learning/Civic Engagement
- Linking Citizenship and Scholarship through Service Learning: A National Imperative (06-Apr-00, 3 hr)
- Promoting the Public Good: Fulfilling Higher Education’s Civic Mission (4-Mar-04)