Student Perspectives on Instructional Strategies

Andrew Kirk's research on student perspectives on various instructional strategies used in Engineering.

Visual presentation of quantitative data

Perhaps the best resource is the collected works of Edward Tufte.

Another great presentation is Hans Rosling's talk at TED a few years ago...I believe his software is now available via Google.

Good stuff from the 2009 CTL Course Design Workshop

Here is a free tool for concept mapping: Freemind

Cory Laverty's eLearning wiki for librarians (which she used a concept map to help develop) is here.

Information behaviour of the researchers of the future - A British Library / JISC Study

Denise Stockley's introductory presentation is linked from the E2QUATE resource site on the Course Design Workshop page.

Sheila Pinchin's presentation about instructional strategies. Lindsay Davidson's examples of two types of instructional strategies: clickers and TBL.

Survey Monkey - a quick, easy, free (US-based) way to develop and conduct online surveys. This is a great way to do a needs assessment of your students or to learn more about them. NB Because the info you gather resides on a non-Canadian server, there are issues about using this tool to conduct research. I have heard that GREB will not allow it. Just something to be aware of...