Disciplinary Resources for SSCI

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The centre aims at "enhancing the student experience in chemistry, physics and astronomy within the university sector." Features such as Newsletters, Briefing Papers, Primers and Practice Guides offer insights, practical advice and guidance, and updated information in teaching and learning Physical Sciences. Issues like assessment, employability and adaptation of PBL are discussed. The Journals and Reviews provide a collection of books, web and software reviews. There are additional features (Links, Events and Networking) that enable academics to further venture the resources across the disciplines in Physical Sciences.

http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/physsci/resources

The site is hosted by the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science at the University at Buffalo. Features like Case Method Teaching, UB Case Collection, Case Ideas and Case Study Teachers contain plentiful resources ranging from articles, videos, resource directory and ready to use teaching notes for different cases covering many disciplines including Biology, Biochemistry, Computer Science, Food Science and Technology. There are links to Other Case Websites, Related Sites and Journals. You can also gain access to workshops and conferences via this site.

http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/case.html

The Open University and Sheffield Hallam University hosts this project website "to examine how students' formative assessment experiences affect their learning." Interviewing tools used could be located at Tools to Evaluate Assessment. The Publications and Dissemination contains the project deliverables that share how teaching and learning could be enhanced through a feedback system.

http://www.open.ac.uk/fast/index.htm

The list was compiled by Prof Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of from Indiana University. It lists over two-hundred education and science blogs, providing for each blog: the author's name and background; the blog title, focus, and URL; and (where available) the Technorati Authority [TA] (number of blogs linking to the website in the last six months) and the Blogged Rating [BR]. Appendix A discusses the Academic Discussion List Sphere (ADLsphere) and the Blog Sphere (Blogosphere), indicating some strengths and weaknesses of each. Appendix B considers the ADLsphere and the Blogosphere as harbingers of a collective short-term working memory. Appendix C discusses the International Edubloggers Directory, Technorati, Blogged, ScienceBlogs; other blog directories and lists; and other social networking sites. The REFERENCES contain over 100 general citations to open access, internet usage, the ADLsphere, and the Blogosphere.

http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake/Over200EdSciBlogsU.pdf