TLA General Resources

Books

A special collection of over 1,000 books and periodicals is available at the TLA Center for ÌÇÐ͝Âþvlog faculty and staff. For example, consider reading Outcomes-Based Assessment for Learner-Centered Education if you are a newcomer to the ÌÇÐ͝Âþvlog campus. This book features the work of many ÌÇÐ͝Âþvlog faculty and describes ÌÇÐ͝Âþvlog's process of developing a unique OBE model. Authors Swarup Wood (Professor of Chemistry and Chair of ULR Operations Committee) and Amy Driscoll (former Director of TLA and current Associate Senior Scholar with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching) reflect upon this process and offer vignettes from cross-campus faculty who have successfully adapted the OBE model. For more details about the TLA checkout process, send an email to tla@csumb.edu

Periodicals

For all those who teach and support learning in higher education and those who undertake or use research in effective learning, teaching, and assessment. Access our institutional subscription to Sage Publications Active Learning in Higher Education in our ÌÇÐ͝Âþvlog Library database from the Find Journals by title search page.

Online Journals

  • CSU Leader: A newsletter on current CSU happenings.
  • Exchanges Journal: The Online Journal of Teaching and Learning in the CSU suspended editorial activity at the end of 2006 and no longer accepts submissions. However, all published material continues to be available on this website.
  • Indiana University's Links: Over 150 Teaching-Related Journals.
  • The National Teaching and Learning FORUM.
  • Tomorrow's Professor Listserve: The Mailing List has over 25,000 subscribers at over 600 institutions and organizations in over 108 countries around the world.

Other Teaching and Learning Resources:

  • Center for Applied Special Technology - 
  • Institute for Human Centered Design - 
  • Open access instruction materials from CSU Merlot
    • : Web-based instructional material

Faculty Development Networks and Organizations:

  • An academic program of the California State University Institute devoted to promoting the highest standards of university teaching and to fostering faculty professional growth and collaboration throughout the 23-campus California State System.
  • CSU Faculty Development Council: Information about teaching and learning centers throughout the CSU.
  • Membership that includes 218 institutions, consisting of state universities, land-grant universities, and state-university systems.
  •  Campus Compact is a national coalition of more than 1,100 college and university presidents.
  •  Members of POD are known for their free exchange of ideas and sharing of resources. The POD website contains ever-expanding resources and links that can help us continually improve our practice and develop new knowledge.
  • Western Association of Schools and Colleges.

Teaching Writing - Workshop Materials

- This presentation helps students think about the purpose and practice of using MLA format and citation style. It could easily be adapted for other style sheets.

- This presentation focuses on best practices for managing the paper load.

- These slides summarize research on perspectives and alternative practices in responding to errors in student writing.