Answers from Teaching/Learning Experts contains videoclips of four teaching experts--Alice Agogino of UC-Berkeley, Richard Felder of N.C. State, Randy Katz of UC-Berkeley, and Siegfried Holzer of Virginia Tech--responding to questions about (among other things) active learning, cooperative learning, experiential learning, learning and teaching styles, and instructional technology.

Assessment methodologies for engineering education is a compilation of assessment methods for a variety of learning outcomes associated with Engineering Criteria 2000. This is a collective effort by some of the leading assessment experts in the country centered at the University of Pittsburgh.

Deliberations on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education is a British site containing material on a variety of issues, including collaborative learning, faculty development, assessment, teaching portfolios (a site compiled by Peter Seldin and Graham Gibbs), and discipline-related topics including engineering education.

Engineering Pathway contains a large variety of teaching and learning resources in applied science and math, engineering, computer science/information technology, and engineering technology for use by K-12 and university educators and students.

Experiential Learning and Experiential Education contains information on the history and methods of experiential education, or education based on learning through real experiences as opposed to sitting in classrooms.

Global Campus is a collaborative multimedia database containing materials for engineering, science, business, liberal arts, fine arts, and library. It has numerous links to resources.

How People Learn is an on-line version of John Bransford's comprehensive survey of modern cognitive science and its applications to pedagogy. (How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School, Expanded Edition. Washington, National Academy Press, 2000)

How Stuff Works is a comprehensive site with sections on engines and motors, electronics, around the house, things you see in public, basic technologies, computers and the Internet, digital technology, automotive, in the news, food, and the human body.

IDEA Center. The web site of the Kansas State University Center for Individual Development Educational Assessment. Short papers and research reports on a large variety of educational topics, information about workshops, and a keyword search engine.

Innovations in SMET Education contains a wealth of information about collaborative learning and instructional technology, and a field-tested assessment guide. It was created by the National Institute for Science Education at the University of Wisconsin.

Links to a Better Education is an incredible collection of links to handouts for students on learning and study skills, note-taking, listening, preparing for tests and taking them (in general and specifically for multiple choice and essay tests), test anxiety, problem solving, critical thinking, science, writing in general and scientific writing, writing lab reports, mathematics, motivation, time management, procrastination, concentration, memory, reading, plagiarism, research, speaking, stress management, depression, working in groups, learning styles, international student problems, and creativity. The list has not been updated since 2003 and a number of the links are broken, but an instructor looking for a handout on a specific topic is still almost certain to find one or more good ones.

MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching). A vast searchable collection of on-line instructional materials in all disciplines.

NEEDS (National Engineering Education Delivery System) is a compilation of multimedia courseware, instructional software, and on-line textbooks. Plans are being made to include peer reviews of listed software.

NEXT (Narratives Supporting Excellent Teaching) contains hypothetical case histories involving common challenges (teaching a course for the first time, having trouble managing time, working with TA's, managing disruptive classes, getting classes actively involved in learning, etc.), suggests strategies for dealing with them, and provides links to relevant articles that provide additional information.

Online Cooperative Learning in Higher Education is a large and rapidly growing site containing links to articles about both on-line and off-line cooperative learning as well as links to web sites of leading CL practitioners and authors. The site is maintained by Tim Roberts of Central Queensland University, Australia.

Samford University Problem-Based Learning Page contains information about and links to publications on problem-based learning in a variety of fields. See also Don Woods' PBL page..

SciEd: Science and Mathematics Education Resources has separate sections for mathematics and most branches of science including chemistry, physics, earth science, astronomy, and space science. There are also resources on history and ethics in science.

SyllabusWeb is maintained by Syllabus Press, publishers of Syllabus Magazine. It is multidisciplinary and focuses on technologies used to enhance education. An excellent feature is their listing of top 20 education web sites and resources.

Ted Panitz's Web Site is a large collection of links to papers about cooperative learning, problem-based learning, writing across the curriculum, and other education-related topics.

World Lecture Hall contains course syllabi, assignments, lecture notes, exams, class calendars, multimedia textbooks, and other resources in a variety of disciplines including engineering, sciences, mathematics, humanities, social sciences, and business.

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