Teaching and Learning Resources


Providing teaching and learning resources to Cortland faculty and staff is one of the primary purposes of the faculty development Web site.

Local Resources

Academic Integrity, http://www.cortland.edu/copyright/

At SUNY Cortland, there are a variety of policies and procedures to help guide faculty when addressing student questions about acknowledging the work of others in projects, papers, websites, presentations, and portfolios.

Faculty Training Center, Memorial Library, http://library.cortland.edu/ftc/

The SUNY Cortland Faculty Training Center provides training and individual assistance to faculty and staff in using technology to create and enhance their teaching materials and improve efficiency of use in performing daily routines. In addition, the Faculty Training Center strives to help users of technology to become independent users of the technology that is available through small group workshops and one-on-one assistance.


The Faculty Guidebook- published by Pacific Crest.

A reference tool, much like an encyclopedia, that allows individual faculty members to access two-to-four page descriptions on a broad range of topics that address teaching and learning. These descriptions also include ideas for applications in the classroom. Your SUNY Cortland user name and password are needed to access the Faculty Guidebook.


SUNY Cortland Online Writing Resource Center, http://library.cortland.edu/cowrc/

This site explains the College's Composition (CPN) and Writing-Intensive (WI) Course requirements. It also gives visitors detailed information about writing across the curriculum (WAC), WI courses, and other writing initiatives at Cortland. Extensive resources are provided to both faculty and students for effective teaching and learning about writing.


Office of Sponsored Programs, http://www.cortland.edu/osp/

The Research Foundation is the fiscal administrator of all external grants and contracts which are carried out in the colleges and university centers of SUNY. Since 1977 the Foundation has had a formal contract with SUNY describing the terms and conditions of the services it performs..



SUNY Resources

SUNY Training Center, http://www.tc.suny.edu/

The SUNY Training Center (SUNY TC) is a component of Advanced Learning and Information Services in the office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. The SUNY TC is a special-purpose, system-wide organization within SUNY that promotes the use of leading-edge educational technologies throughout the State University. The Center, located in Syracuse, makes training and professional development available on a diverse list of multi-media systems and hundreds of software programs.



National and International Resources

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education, http://www.podnetwork.org/

POD fosters human development in higher education through faculty, instructional, and organizational development. It is recognized as the leading professional organization for faculty developers across the United States. POD maintains a useful list of Teaching Excellence Centers throughout the world.


Phi Delta Kappa International, http://www.pdkintl.org

Phi Delta Kappa is an international association of professional educators. Our mission is to promote quality education, with particular emphasis on publicly supported education, as essential to the development and maintenance of a democratic way of life.


The Education and Research Network (AERA), http://www.aera.net

The American Educational Research Association is concerned with improving the educational process by encouraging scholarly inquiry related to education and by promoting the dissemination and practical application of research results.


Tommorrow's Professor Listserv, http://ctl.stanford.edu/Tomprof

Tomorrow's-Professor Mailing List seeks to foster a diverse, world-wide teaching and learning ecology among its over 17,000 subscribers at over 500 institutions and organizations in over 108 countries around the world. Postings are twice weekly, usually on Monday and Thursday mornings, Pacific Standard Time. To date there have been over 500 postings under the following categories:


  • Tomorrow's Academy
  • Tomorrow's Graduate Students and Postdocs
  • Tomorrow's Academic Careers
  • Tomorrow's Teaching and Learning
  • Tomorrow's Research


The Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, http://ject.lib.muohio.edu

The Journal on Excellence in College Teaching is a peer-reviewed journal published at Miami University by and for faculty at universities and two- and four-year colleges to increase student learning through effective teaching, interest in and enthusiasm for the profession of teaching, and communication among faculty about their classroom experiences. It answers Ernest Boyer's (1990) call for a forum to present the scholarship of teaching and learning. The Journal provides a scholarly, written forum for discussion by faculty about all areas affecting teaching and learning, and gives faculty the opportunity to share proven, innovative pedagogies and thoughtful, inspirational insights about teaching.


Teaching Spirit, http://www.wku.edu/teaching/db/newsletters

The Teaching Spirit is a newsletter produced by the Faculty Center for Excellence in Teaching (FaCET) at Western Kentucky University.


Mountain Rise, http://mountainrise.wcu.edu/

Mountain Rise is an open, peer-reviewed, international electronic journal published twice a year by the Coulter Faculty Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning at Western Carolina University for the purpose of being an international vehicle for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL).