Links on Teaching from the CAE

Teaching Resources

  • CAE Handouts
    See our collected articles, tip sheets and other resources on topics ranging from assessment, diversity and integrative learning to syllabus design and teaching with technology.
  • POD-IDEA Center Notes
    One-page briefs to help employ different teaching methods, based on the IDEA student rating system, such as the following: "Found ways to help students answer their own questions," "Demonstrated the importance and significance of the subject matter," or "Explained course material clearly and concisely."
  • Teaching Strategies & Disciplinary Resources
    From the nation's leading teaching researchers at U Michigan, find material on everything from grading and feedback to diversity and academic integrity to assembling teaching portfolios.
  • Designing a Course, Start to Finish
    Dee Fink's free 30 page synopsis and workshop handouts from his phenomenally helpful book Creating Significant Learning Experiences (copies available for loan). A must read for "backwards" design and other brilliant conceptions.
  • Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD)
    The world's premier faculty development association, POD features an annual conference we attend every fall and a searchable listserve archives full of answers to common questions about every kind of teaching and learning challenge.
  • JesuitNET
    A collaboration of Jesuit institutions sharing resources for online programs, including Competency Assessment in Distance Education (CADE) Workshop - free for Fairfield faculty.
  • The Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium (CTDLC)
    Offers a variety of online training programs as well as grants.
  • Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT)
    Free and open resource that includes sample assignments, teaching methods and activities.


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