The Sullivan University System

Quality Enhancement Center (QEC)

Teaching & Learning Services

QEC Teaching & Learning Services:

The QEC is dedicated to providing teaching & learning resources to faculty members throughout the System.  This page contains resources that will help you improve your teaching and classroom practices!

• e-Learning Catalog

• SU QEP Active Learning Links

• SU QEP Problem-Based Learning Links

• SU QEP Collaborative Learning Links

Course Development Resources/Links:

• Online Course Curriculum Resources/Links:

  • AT&T Blue Web'n

  • DNA from the Beginning

  • Museum of Science

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art

  • History Matters

  • Electronic Text Center

  • The Critical Thinking Community

  • The National Archives: Google Videos

• Teaching & Learning Center Links:

  • Georgia Perimeter College: Center for Teaching & Learning (Excellent Link!)

  • Perimeter College: Teaching & Technology  (Excellent Link!)

  • Faculty Center for Teaching & e-Learning

• Writing Tests & Exams:

  • Knowing if your Students Understand You!

  • Exam Design

  • Writing Exams, Quizzes, & Tests

  • Writing Better Tests

Teaching & Learning Resources/Links:

Here are some teaching and learning resources:

• Developing a Course Syllabus:

  • Creating a Syllabus

  • Constructing a Syllabus

  • Communicating Requirements

  • Learning-Centered Syllabus

• Academic Leader Resources:

  • ACE Department Chair Resource Center

  • Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)

  • Legal Issues in Higher Education

• Student Learning Style Resources:

  • Learning Styles

  • Index of Learning Styles

  • Keirsey Temperaments Sorter

  • Kolb Learning Styles

• Online Teaching Assessments

  • Teaching Style Inventory (Online Self-Assessment)

  • Learning Style Inventory (Online Self-Assessment)

• Managing the Classroom:

  • Combating classroom misconduct (incivility) with Bills of Rights

• Presentation Resources:

  • 20 Ways to Make your Lectures more Participatory!

  • Creating effective PowerPoint presentations

  • Using PowerPoint to actively engage student learning

• Misc. Resources/Links:

  • Active Learning on the Web

  • Active and Collaborative Learning

  • In-Class Problem Solving

  • Turning Teaching Into Learning: The Role of Student Responsibility in the Collegiate Experience

  • Questioning Techniques

  • Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education

  • Improving Lecturing Skills: Speech Communications

  • International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (ISSOTL)

  • University of Wisconsin @ Madison's Distant Education Professional Development

  Faculty Newsletters...

• Faculty Focus (Magna Publications)

• Merlot Grapevine (Multimedia Education Resource for Learning and Online Training)

• JOLT (Journal of Online Learning and Training)

• ASTD (The Buzz: American Society for Training & Development)