Best Educational E-Practices (BEEP) - St. Petersburg College
A bi-monthly online publication focusing on one specific e-learning area in each issue.
Best Practices in Florida 's Community Colleges and Workforce Education
Best Practices: Promoting Integrity in Academic Life and Beyond
This site helps explain the best practices for preparing for a class, taking a class, and activities such as taking an exam and writing an assignment.
Best Practices Series: Enhancing Support for Adjunct Faculty (Available in .pdf format)
The Virginia Community College System provides a booklet with information about recruiting, supervising, and evaluating adjuncts. The booklet also provides tips for orientation and professional development.
Committee on Institutional Cooperation
Four best practices articles on teaching and learning.
The National Association of Developmental Education Best Practices
Professors Review Best Teaching Practices
This site has best practices for teachers in the classroom and also gives helpful statistics explaining the best way to be effective.
Walla Walla Community College Best Practices
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Business Technologies
Professors Review Best Teaching Practices
This site has best practices for teachers in the classroom and also gives helpful statistics explaining the best way to be effective.
Best Practices: View the Executive Summaries for Free
This site has best practices in different areas from board of directors, CEO skills, conflict management, stress management and many more.
Managing Students with Computers: Best Practice
The site created by the National Teacher training Institute (NTTI) transforms the way teachers teach and students learn. The site covers the best practice on managing students with computers.
Web Page Development: Best Practice
The site created by Apple Developer Connection (ADC). The site help teachers in following some Web standards implemented by Safari development at Apple team.
Communications
Understanding the Developing Writer
This site includes a list of recommended texts, web sites, and other resources to help with the development of a basic writer. Some of the resources given include a guide to grammar and writing, Strunk's Elements of Style, and MLA citations.
Digital Media
What Comprises an Effective Videoconferencing Best Practices Video? (Available in .pdf format)
This website provides the critical elements that an instructor should consider for effective videoconferencing. They include: instructor expertise, content structure and instruction techniques, learner participation/interaction, learning results and best practices in production quality.
Best Practices for Video Use
This site contains information about video demonstration, simulation, promotion, personalization, and animation in online courses.
Creating Your Syllabus with Home Page
Claris Home Page is an ideal tool for educators to use. With very little effort and time, you can simply transfer your usual, hard copy syllabus into an on-line format, available to your students 24-hours a day.
Centre for Digital Humanities Innovations
The center for Digital Humanities Innovation web site contains many best practices for web, archival and video production technology.
Education
The Center for Best Practices in Early Childhood
This resource may be helpful for students taking early childhood education courses as it provides best practice materials, research, articles, workshop information, and services available to educators of young children.
A Report of Best Practices from the Rice Research Team
This site includes a report of best practices in education as well as links to submissions of best practices across many subject areas.
US Department of Education Teacher-to-Teacher Initiative
The US department of education shares initiatives, workshops, updates, and presentations on best practices in teaching.
NGA center for Best Practices: K-12 Education
Education publications of all types can be found using this site, including best practices in education.
BCISD Best Practices of Technology Integration
This site covers best practices in each educational area and level regarding integrating technology into the classroom.
Ethics
Business Ethics
This site can be used by faculty members teaching ethics as it includes a compilation of ethics resources such as articles, publications, case studies, codes of ethics and links to professional organizations.
Ethics Resource center
This site includes the results of the 2005 national ethics business survey as well as other research and ethics publications.
Ethics Updates: A Guide to Using the World Wide Web in Ethics Teaching and Research
This site covers incorporating the internet into teaching the subject of ethics and links to other websites that might be of interest to ethics faculty members.
AACSB International Ethics Education Resource center
Faculty members who teach ethics can use this site to review best practices in teaching this subject.
The center for Instructional Innovation at Western Washington University : Innovative Teaching Showcase
This site highlights three educational showcases on teaching ethics from WWU's 2004 showcase.
Foreign Languages
Guide to Good Practice for learning and teaching in Languages
The center for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies provides instructors with articles and bibliographies of resources related to good practices in learning and teaching languages.
Hospitality & Tourism
Cornell University center For Hospitality Research: Best Practices Articles
View Best Practice articles on the Hospitality Industry from the Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly.
Evolution of Internet Pedagogy: Benefits for Tourism and Hospitality Education - Abstract (Available in .pdf format)
This paper aims at reviewing and evaluating the evolution of practices in Internet pedagogy in order to identify effective e-learning models for tourism and hospitality education.
Transferring Tourism Knowledge (Available in .pdf format)
This is a brief paper that focuses on higher education institutions role in transferring tourism knowledge into practice.
Hotel Employee Behavior Is a Business System
This is a synopsis of a study (“Benchmarks for Best Practices in Hotel Management”) of how Hospitality managers can maximize profits and staff in busy and slow seasons to ensure a consistent customer experience.
Five Major Technology Innovations for Your Hotel’s Performance
Over the last 10 to 15 years, technology has changed dramatically in the hotel industry. This article takes a closer look at five different technological innovations and their impact on hospitality.
Humanities & Fine Arts
Best Practices in Humanities Centers
This UCF web site provides web links to Instruction & Curriculum information, Faculty Development & Research, Support, and Campus, Community & State and National & International Humanities Contributions.
Preparing Future Faculty in the Humanities and Socials Sciences (Available in .pdf format)
This guide created by the Council of Graduate Schools and the Association of American Colleges and Universities provides information about creating a program for preparing future faculty. The guide also provides information about doctoral preparation, strategies for establishing a program for preparing future faculty, contents of the program plans, suggested activities, outcomes, and the changing culture of faculty preparation.
Best Practices University of Montana Art Department
This web site provides information about best practices implemented in the Art Department and covers topics like student learning goals and assessment methods.
A Case Study in Integrating the Best Practices
The Interactive Multimedia Electronic Journal of Computer-Enhanced Learning provides articles and case studies that deal with Best Practices in Art History, online teaching and other subjects.
Mathematics
PSEA Interactive --- In Brief: Best Practice Mathematics
PSEA Interactive states mathematics instruction research is inconclusive about a specific best practice. Some advocate a return to basics and there are those who favor the "new math" has been dubbed the "math wars." PSEA believes that some things do emerge as essential practices for student success in mathematics. This website provides PSEA beliefs.
Math Best Practices, Spring 1996
This website includes the Mathematics Teaching Best Practices. They include teaching the distance formula, scaling and the means-extreme theorem and assessment as an education device. An instructor, Tim Hendrix, from the University of Illinois is the author.
Title:SETC | No Limit! Best Practices and Research
This website provides the best practices of anchored instruction. It is believed that it is the principle approach to be utilized for improving generalization of mathematics problem solving. Anchored instruction is intended to stimulate math problem solving of all students, including those who have had difficulty learning mathematics, by practicing skills that have applicability in the work environment and everyday life. This best practice is brought to you by Central Washington University
Department of Mathematics: Problem of the Week
At Purdue University, a panel in the Mathematics Department provides an example of best practices by publishing challenging problems once a week and invites college & pre-college students, faculty, and staff to submit solutions. The objective of this is to stimulate and cultivate interest in good mathematics, especially among younger students. Solutions are due within two weeks from the date of publication and should be sent by campus or U.S. mail or fax. An incentive program is in place that entitles every Purdue student who submits three or more correct solutions will receive a Certificate of Merit. Each semester, a prize fund of $150.00 will be distributed among the Purdue undergraduates who have contributed at least six correct solutions for that semester series.
Jefferson County Schools Mathematics Best Practices
This website provides 10 bullet points on the best practices that should be included in mathematics instruction. The ideas are taken from Improving Student Achievement in Mathematics.
Natural Sciences
Pedagogical Content Knowledge
The web site discusses the application of science pedagogical content knowledge in the classroom.
UAGPA - Best Practices
This site provides information about science debriefing, using microcomputer based laboratories, using technology with science instruction, teaching students about concept mapping and graphic organizers.
Project ISIS
Science instructors will benefit from visiting this site which contains information about science reports, science journals with a grading rubric, collaborative group work, inquiry, research, assessment, science supply and content resources.
Enhancing public understanding and attractiveness of science among youth: Lessons from the LUMA Programme in Finland (Available in Word .doc format)
This is a plan for encouraging student to study science with goals and projects.
Social & Behavioral Science
Best Practices in Assessment: Top 10 Task Force Recommendations
Members of the Task Force on Undergraduate Psychology Learning Goals and Outcomes share some simple strategies for getting started in understanding the scope and intent of effective assessment planning.
Best Practice Teaching American Studies @ the University of Virginia
This directory highlights the most outstanding educational websites for use by teachers and students of American Studies. The websites include a variety of educational materials and make superior use of web technology
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Speech
Teach Speech: Encouraging Good Learning Practices
Many instructors omit some of the key elements that a designated speech course demands. This site talks about the importance of peer evaluation when grading speeches.
Teaching and Persuasive Communication: Class Presentation Skills
This handbook is intended to provide faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students with a starting point in developing (for the neophyte) and assessing (for the more experienced), their public speaking skills.
Speakers' Advice to Speakers
Ron St. John of University of Hawaii 's Maui Community College Speech Department asks public speakers, "Knowing what you know now, how would you improve your public speaking skills, that they can improve their speaking skills?" This web site provides tips for all types of public speakers.
Virtual Presentation Best Practices Checklist (Available in .pdf format)
The checklist provides ten tips for making your speech successful in a virtual environment.
Tools for Public Speaking (Available in .pdf format)
Tools for Public Speaking contains resources to enhance public presentations about New Directions.
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