Faculty Resources on the Internet

Sources for Instructional Materials, Textbooks, etc.

MIR's Faculty Online

http://www.facultyonline.com/

Provides information on textbooks currently used in higher education. Includes reviews and bestseller lists. Free to college and university faculty but registration is required.

World Lecture Hall (U. of Texas)

http://web.austin.utexas.edu/wlh/

Links to pages created by faculty who are using the Web to provide syllabi, assignments, lecture notes, Internet resource lists, etc.

Student Internet-Based Assignments

Best Practices: Teaching with Passports

http://library.webster.edu/best/index.html

Provide faculty with ideas and resources for using Passports, the Webster University Library's web site, in their classes. Each activity or assignment listed below has practical advice for planning and implementation and includes links to related web sites, databases, library materials, etc.

Using Persistent URLs Through Passports

http://library.webster.edu/datguides/persisturl.html

Shows how faculty can direct students to specific articles in electronic databases through the use of persistent URLs.

Plagiarism Issues

Turnitin Plagiarism Service

http://www.webster.edu/faculty/turnitin/

Turnitin is available to instructors who wish to check assignments and papers for originality against 1.5 billion Internet pages as well as a growing database of previously submitted student work. For those faculty using Webster's WorldClassRoom, information on Turnitin is available at http://www.webster.edu/faculty/turnitin/. For those who do not have access to WorldClassRoom, information is available at http://library.webster.edu/services/turnitinclassic.html.

Webster U. Plagiarism Resources for Faculty

http://www.webster.edu/faculty/plagiarism

Includes best practices on teaching students about plagiarism; developing assignments that deter plagiarism, using Turnitin as a revision and teaching tool, and University policies and procedures in the event plagiarism is detected.

Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers

http://www.virtualsalt.com/antiplag.htm

Basic advice to faculty on designing assignments so as to discourage plagiarism.

Preventing and Detecting Plagiarism

http://www.millikin.edu/staley/research/prevent_plagiarism.asp

Provides tips for faculty on how to deal with the issue of plagiarism. Also has links to related sites, sources of term papers, related articles, etc.

Technology Journals

EDUCAUSE Quarterly

http://www.educause.edu/pub/eq/archives.asp

Articles aimed at managers and users of information resources, including the Internet, at colleges and universities.

EDUCAUSE Review

http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/

Articles from a leading journal on topics related to technology and education.