The Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence at  Carnegie Mellon University is innovative, beautifully designed, and teaching/learning focused that  functions as a mentor on the teaching process.  The highlight is "Solve a Teaching Problem," a multi-part, interactive tool that first helps teachers--

•  identify their specific problem,
• then explore possible reasons for that problem, finally leading them to
• strategies to correct the problem.  
  

Strategies are firmly grounded in research and learning principles and appropriate for all disciplines. 

You'll eagerly explore other elements of this site when visiting.  Its Design and Teach a Course first takes you through 8 steps of the design process then through 6 teaching steps.. Best

This site provides excellent faculty support resources for syllabus development, assignment design, course deveoopment, assessment, & engaging students, etc.  Wonderful emphasis on service Learning. Best

You'll find here some of the best tutorials -- on designing smart lectures, active learning with powerpoint, syllabus development, online research, writing a teaching philosophy, and creating an e-portfolio...and much more -- on this site. Best.

TEACHING LARGE CLASSES -- A Teaching Guide  This excellent guide was researched and written by a quality improvement "large classes" team at U of Maryland. The guide itself sits in a section devoted to large class teaching and includes wonderful resources briefly described. According to its authors, the guide  focuses "on a persistent problem area for academic programs in many disciplines--the challenge of providing high quality educational experiences to undergraduates in large lecture classes." A few topics  include personalizing the large class, lectures, discussions, collaborative & cooperative learning, writing, etc. Excellent.

If you are still copying internet information to your index cards and then saving or printing the web page as backup, you are wasting a load of time. More than 100 colleges & universities recommend the award-winning Zotero, "an easy-to-use yet powerful research tool that helps you gather, organize, and analyze sources (citations, full texts, web pages, images, and other objects.)  Developed by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, Zotero is a browser add-on that can "sense" the bibliographic information contained in a web page and - when the user clicks the Zotero icon - gathers that information and places it in the user's library of sources. Innovative

The University of Texas, Austin, maintains this award-winning site.  It provides links to college course  materials that have been uploaded by college teachers from all disciplines, from all over the world -- abstracts, syllabi, lecture notes, suggested resources and more!  You'll also find materials that fit a range of learning environments including traditional, hybrid, online, and community based. This site is useful when you are teaching a new course and want to check how others have done it or to find course resources. Innovative.