Web Links

• The Big Picture:  changing students, society, and academia
• Research and Educational Literature:  tools for conducting rigorous research
• Evaluation and Assessment:  tools for assessing and evaluating student learning
• Links to Professional Societies:  educational professional societies
• Links to Teams and Collaborative Learning:  resources to support students working on teams
• Data and Statistics:  educational statistics and statistical techniques & tools
• Critical Thinking and Problem Solving:  resources to incorporate in your classes
• Case Studies:  Archives of case studies
• Fun Stuff:  useful tools and web sites for your class.
• Other Interesting Links

Engineering Students for the 21st Century Sharepoint Web Site:(For OSU faculty only). Please login here

• Reviving the 'DIY' tradition: Clive Thompson on How DIYers Just Might Revive American Innovation.
• Virtual is No Refuge From the Real: James Howard Kunstler on Virtual Reality.
• The Corporate University in American Society:  A review of how the role of the university is changing.
• The Engineer of 2020:  The National Academy of Engineering's view of educating engineers

• Field-tested Learning Assessment Guide:  Concise review of widely accepted assessment tools you can incorporate in your classes.  If you look at one assessment resource, this should be it!
• Student Assessment of Learning Gains:  The SALG survey we use to measure students self-reported learning gains. 

• Evidence for the Efficacy of Student-Active Learning Pedagogies: Collection of resourses from various journals supporting student-active learning procedures
• Annals for Research in Engineering Education:  Featured articles of high quality that reflect best practices in engineering education.
• Buros Institute of Mental Measurements:  Review of psychological and mental tests.  Is what you plan to use to measure student learning well validated?  This site will tell you.
• The Campbell Collaboration:  Source of meta-analyses and best practices literature in social, behavioral, and educational sciences.
• All that you want to know about Optics: Tutorials on cleaning, caring for and using Optics. A quick and complete reference guide.
• Optics Lab Tutorial: Demos, useful files and example programs on aberrations and Imaging.
• Useful MATLAB files: Important files and tutorials on how to acquire data for further simulation and modelling.

• American Society for Engineering Education
• IEEE Education Society
• National Center for Technological Literacy: Museum of Science in Boston that aims to integrate engineering in schools nationwide and inspire the next generation of engineers and innovators.

• Collaborative Learning:  A summary of techniques you can use to help your students function better on teams.  The site includes resources and testimonials.

• NSF Division of Science Resources Statistics:  the best source on all things science and science education. 
• StatSoft Electronic Textbook:  An on-line review of statistical techniques.

• WolcottLynch:  Commercial site with rubrics and overview of critical thinking skills.  Useful site if you need to help define and analyze what critical thinking is.
• Mindtools- Problem solving:  A commercial site with problem solving techniques used in business. 
• Mindtools- Decision Making:  A set of exercises used to teach teams about how to make decisions.  I use some of these in Senior Design 1.
• Mindtools- Project Planning:  Explanation of techniques like Gantt charts and critical path analysis that you can adopt for your class.

• National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science Archive:  many cases, primarily in biology and medicine.

• Equation Sheet:  Generate nice printed "cheat sheets"

• A RSS feed ( http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/es/rss1.html) focussing on the nexus among engineering education, learning pedagogy (i.e., for constructivism, for model-based knowledge domains), and emerging technologies that facilitate education (i.e., storytelling, education, engineering, Blogs, PODcasting, wikis, digital delivery of content).
• US Engineers :U.S. engineers hold their own (Article regarding technical Workforce), By Kristina M. Johnson
• http://www.funderstanding.com/about_learning.cfm :Funderstanding is a team of product development consultants, specialized in the youth market.
• GROUPS PERFORM BETTER THAN THE BEST INDIVIDUALS AT SOLVING COMPLEX PROBLEMS: Study shows that the collective efforts of groups may be useful in boosting problem-solving skills.