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- 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
Sharepoint Website
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.
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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.
- 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.
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