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Higher Education - resources for teaching and research

This page contains useful resources to help academic staff develop their teaching and research.

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Higher Education Books

Teaching & Learning

Curriculum planning
Evaluation
Assessment
Supervising students
Teaching & lecturing in higher education
Teaching with technology/instructional technology

Research

Building your academic career
Getting started on research
Winning and managing research funding
Writing for publication

Higher education journals


The below journals publish articles on the scholarship of teaching and learning.

About campus
Academe
Assessment & evaluation in higher education
Assessment update
Change
Chronicle of higher education
College teaching
EDUCAUSE quarterly
EDUCAUSE review
Higher education
Higher education policy
Higher education quarterly
Higher education review
Higher education research & development
International journal of sustainability in higher education
Internet and higher education
Journal of college student development
Journal of college student retention
Journal of higher education
Journal of university teaching & learning practice
New directions for higher education
New directions for teaching and learning
Peer review: emerging trends and key debates in undergraduate education
Research in higher education
Review of higher education
Studies in higher education

Websites


Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
The Carnegie Foundation is an independent policy and research center with a mission "to do and perform all things necessary to encourage, uphold, and dignify the profession of the teacher and the cause of higher education".

Higher Education Academy
Independent U.K. organisation which works with higher education institutions to promote good practice, information and resources to improve student learning.

Deliberations
International website on issues of learning and teaching for the higher education community. Based in the Centre for Academic Professional Development at London Metropolitan University. Includes case studies and articles on teaching and learning.

Educause
EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.

HERDSA - Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia
Scholarly society for people committed to the improvement of teaching and learning in higher and tertiary education.

EdNA - Higher Education
Education Network Australia provides links to web resources for teaching and learning.

Teaching & Learning Research Initiative
Links to a range of research projects and initiatives designed to build knowledge about teaching and learning in New Zealand education.