Journal of Chemical Education: About Teaching with Problems and Case Studies part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This feature column from the Journal of Chemical Education provides teachers and professors with real-world scenarios that involve chemistry and encourage students to appreciate how chemistry and ...

A Fractal Thinker Looks at Learning, Observing and Assessment part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This site describes a way to reorganize available information on materials, processes and rates to make teaching part of a more understandable system interrelated in space and time. Fractals may ...

How Can Universities Improve Schoolteachers in Math and Science? part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This site presents the transcript of an May 26, 2005 online chat where Dr. Gordon A. Kingsley, an associate professor in the school of public policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology, discussed ...

Web Design Guide part of SERC Web Resource Collection

The Web Design Guide offers a number of brief tutorials about the necessary design elements for creating an effective website. Tutorials cover such topics as design, speed, content, style, ...

Center for Teaching, Learning and Scholarship part of SERC Web Resource Collection

A clearinghouse of information about Problem-Based learning in undergraduate and professional education as well as for peer reviewed instruction of Problem-Based Learning

Maastricht PBL site part of SERC Web Resource Collection

Problem-Based Learning Links

Jane's Story part of SERC Web Resource Collection

Metacognition: Study Strategies, Monitoring, and Motivation part of SERC Web Resource Collection

The author briefly reviews metacognition and its connections with study strategies, self-monitoring, and motivation. He then offers examples of specific strategies instructors can teach students to ...

Lines, Blobs, Crosses, and Arrows: Diagrammatic Communication with Schematic Figures part of SERC Print Resource Collection
In making diagrams to communicate, people use a small number of symbols or schematic figures. The meaning of a diagram as a whole depends in part on the schematic figures used within the diagram and ...

How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This summary of educational research stresses that students of all ages 1) come to school with preconceptions about the subjects they are learning that, if not engaged, will interfere with learning, ...