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Fletcher Center Teaching and Learning Resources: Teaching and Learning

Teaching and learning resources for Hagerstown Community College

General teaching resources

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D2L Training for Instructors
Learn how to use D2L for content, assessments, gradebook, and communications in this self-paced course.

Main Instructor Resources
Resources for instructional design, video-making, accessibility, inclusive access, and distance learning tools. Main Instructor Resources is the home of New Faculty Orientation Guide.

Research summaries & general teaching resources

Active learning

Books on teaching and learning

The Courage to Teach

Reclaim your own vision and purpose against the threat of burn-out.

Small Teaching

Employ cognitive theory in the classroom with modest but powerful changes - many of which can be put into practice in a single class period.

Small Teaching Online

Improve your online courses by making small and strategic changes that have enormous power to improve student learning.

The Online Teaching Survival Guide

Essential reading for online instructors, updated to cover new issues and technologies

Developing and Validating Multiple-Choice Test Items

Guidance for creating multiple-choice test items that measure understanding and the application of knowledge and skills to critical thinking and problem solving

Sixteen Teachers Teaching: Two-Year College Perspectives

A full-access tour into the classrooms and teaching practices of sixteen distinguished two-year college English professors. Print edition available for loan from Fletcher Center

Taking College Teaching Seriously - Pedagogy Matters!

This book celebrates faculty members and challenges them with individual reflection and an accessible way to "see" into the classrooms of discipline peers.

Quick Hits for Adjunct Faculty and Lecturers

Short, practice-oriented articles with teaching and career tips for balancing competing demands, addressing student issues, managing classrooms, and enhancing professional development.

Teaching What You Don't Know

Everyone in academia knows it and no one likes to admit it: faculty often have to teach courses in areas they don't know very well. This book will help you learn and thrive.

The Norton Guide to Equity-Minded Teaching

Concrete steps, grounded in research, to help all students have an equal chance for success. Print edition available from Brish Library and Fletcher Center. Free e-book at seagull.wwnorton.com/equityguide

Humanity Over Comfort

A guide for reflection- and scenario-based conversations to help readers build more equitable organizations

Redesigning America's Community Colleges

Review of evidence for guided pathways or meta-majors that help 2-year college students meet their goals for degree completion. Print edition available for loan from Fletcher Center

A Concise Guide to Improving Student Learning

For faculty who are interested in engaging their students with deep and lasting learning, but do not have the time to immerse themselves in the scholarship of teaching and learning.

Maybe Teaching Is a Bad Idea

Proposes a radical restructuring of teaching so that it conforms to how people learn. This is a book that challenges--it will poke and prod your thinking.

Teaching at Its Best

Updated edition of the classic teaching toolbox, packed with practical guidance, proven techniques, and expert perspectives

Meaningful and Manageable Program Assessment

Straightforward approach to doing assessment in a way that is meaningful, manageable, and sustainable over time

Assessment Clear and Simple

Concise, step-by-step guide that helps make assessment simple, cost-efficient, and useful to an institution

Assessing Student Learning

Comprehensive, practical, plainspoken guidance for making assessment useful, synthesizing evidence of learning, setting standards, and using assessment to make decisions.

Cheating Academic Integrity

Practical and insightful solutions to the growing problem of academic dishonesty

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