Faculty Development at Edmonds Community College
Web Resources
Assessment, Teaching and Learning
Brain Research
An excellent, interesting site out of McGill University on Memory and the Brain.
Pick your level of explanation: beginner, intermediate, advanced or your level of organization: molecular, cellular, brain/neurological, psychological...Select short term (little brain #1) or long term memory (#2.)
Short Term Memory (STM) Demonstrations or Tests
Demonstration of the Capacity of STM
Introduction to Psychology at MIT — 9.00 ("nine-hundred).
Lecture outline/notes for the lecture on memory can be found at (Lecture #7 - pdf). Listen to this lecture (streaming audio or MP3 audio) - listening while looking at the notes is probably best.
Lecture notes that would be used in an educational psychology course, this is much more applied to learning (and teaching) and discusses chunking, etc. that could lead us to a discussion and sharing of ideas, teaching practices, and the like.
Student Engagement Research
A survey of student engagement at community colleges: ccsse.org
Annotated table of contents for the CCSEE Institutional Report
Application of the Community College Survey of Student Engagement, Truckee Meadows Community College
"No Average Student” — community college students are not your ‘typical students’ says College of Education survey
“Students less engaged at community college” — USA Today
"Building Student Success in the Community College” — Society for College and University Planning
