HILLgroup Resources

We have collected this list of links and print sources for the use of the Hamilton College community.  If you would like to suggest resources to list on this page, please email the HILLgroup.

• Learning Styles at the college level (Bibliography)
• Learning Styles and Information Literacy (Bibliography)
• Teaching with Technology (Links)
• Good Use of Technology at the college level (Links) 
• Prevention of Plagiarism in Higher Education (Links)

Selective Bibliography on Learning Styles in the College Classroom compiled by Kristin Strohmeyer

Bodi, Sonia. 1988. Critical thinking and bibliographic instruction: the Relationship. Journal of Academic Librarianship 14, no. 3: 150-153. 

Campbell, L, B. Campbell, and D. Dickinson. 1999. Teaching and learning through multiple intelligences. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon.

Erickson, B.L., and D.W. Strommer. 1991.  Learning Styles and Intellectual Development. In Teaching College Freshmen, 46-62. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. (LB 2331 E76 1991)

Grasha, Anthony F.; Yangarber-Hicks, Natalia. Winter 2000.  Integrating teaching styles and learning styles with instructional technology.  College Teaching   48, no. 1: 2-10.

Griffin, Ray; Franklin, Godfrey. 1995-1996.  Can college academic performance be predicted using a measure of cognitive style?  Journal of Educational Technology Systems   24, no. 4:  375-9.

Kaplan, E. Joseph.; Kies, Daniel A.  Dec 1993.  Together: teaching styles and learning styles improving college instruction.  College Student Journal   27: 509-.

Kolb, D. A. 1985.  Learning Style Inventory. Boston, MA: McBer and Company. 

Lacina, Lorna J. Sept 1991.  Empowering students in the college classroom through learning styles research.  College Student Journal 25:  354- .

Lemire, David. Fall 2001.  An introduction to learning styles for college teachers.  Journal of College Reading and Learning   32, no. 1:  86-92.

Manner, Barbara M. Mar-Apr 2001.  Learning styles and multiple intelligences in students. Journal of College Science Teaching   30, no. 6: 390-3.

Sims, R., and S. Sims, eds. 1995. The importance of learning styles: Understanding the implications for learning, course design, and education. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 

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Learning Styles as they apply to Library Instruction and Information Literacy (at the college level) compiled by Lynn Mayo

Bodi, Sonia. 1990. Teaching Effectiveness and Bibliographic Instruction: The Relevance of Learning Styles. College and Research Libraries 51(2):113-19.

Breivik, Patricia Senn. Student Learning in the Information Age. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1998.

Dewey, Barbara. Library User Education: Powerful Learning, Powerful Partnerships. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2001.

Raspa, Dick and Ward, Dane, eds. The Collaborative Imperative: Librarians and Faculty Working Together in the Information Universe. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2000.

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Sites about Teaching with Technology:

CEL: Collaboration for Enhanced Learning  (Colgate University)
Shows concrete examples of technology used by particular Colgate professors.  Includes an excellent page listing Technology in Education Organizations.

Catalyst Site
The Catalyst Site contains case studies of how technology is used in teaching as well as information and tools.

CIT Infobits
An electronic service of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Academic & Technology Networks' Center for Instructional Technology. Each month the CIT's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a number of information technology and instructional technology sources that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators.

Current Cites
An annotated bibliography of selected articles, books, and digital documents on information technology  A team of librarians and library staff monitors information technology literature in both print and digital forms, each month selecting only the best items to annotate for a free publication.

Educause
The mission of EDUCAUSE is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.

Internet Scout Project
The Scout Project research team creates and delivers practical Web-based information and software solutions for educators, librarians and researchers. Their Scout Report is one of the Web's oldest and most respected current awareness services.

MERLOT
The Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) is an international cooperative for high quality online resources to improve learning and teaching within higher education. The cooperative connects systems, consortiums, and institutions of higher education, professional organizations of academic disciplines, and individual members to form a community of people who strive to enrich the teaching and learning experience.

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Sites showing a Good Use of Technology at the college level:

Froguts
An online virtual dissection of a frog, created by Richard Hill, a high school science teacher and graduate student in Instructional Technology.  Although frog dissection is usually considered a high school project, this web site may be of interest to instructors at the college level.

Collaborative Facilities
Sponsored by the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). The project's goal is to collect, organize, and disseminate information about model "collaborative facilities" on college and university campuses in an effort to assist institutions in planning, implementing, and evaluating these facilities. Includes:

• Information Commons
• Digital Library Centers
• Information Arcades
• Centers for Instructional and Faculty Development
• Centers or Classrooms for Instructional Delivery
• Facilities for Multimedia Production
• Facilities for Multimedia Delivery
• Centers for Distance Education

Quicktime for Education
A website created by Brigham Young University with information about QuickTime authoring for education.  They have an excellent presentation, "What is QuickTime", that describes exactly what QuickTime is and how it can be used. 

The Center for Arts and Technology (CAT) (Connecticut College) "Gathers together faculty and students who study and contribute to the symbiotic relationship between technology and the arts. Through interdisciplinary collaborations and individual work, students and faculty not only promote proficiency in working with technology, but also deepen the understanding of the meaning and role of technology within the larger context of the liberal arts". Their lists of current and past projects illustrate cutting-edge use of technology to enhance the learning and creating process. A series of recent projects from CAT received NSF funding to integrate the ideas of students and faculty from different disciplines using 3D virtual landscapes with audio and force-feedback components (3D module Examples). The Force-feedback Instrument, Phantom, allows tactile sense of 3D environments. It is currently being used by sculptors to model their work before doing it, surgeons to practice surgery on an individual's images before the actual surgery, and by engineers to test models. Force-feedback instruments have enormous potential for interdisciplinary collaboration and to teach students with visual/auditory impairments. If Hamilton acquired a Phantom instrument and used it to allow visually impaired students "touch" content designed by faculty in interdisciplinary courses we would be at the forefront of using technology to advance access to information in higher education. We would be delighted to hear your views on this; send them to HILLgroup@hamilton.edu.

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Sites about Anti-Plagiarism in Higher Education

Academic Integrity: Technological Change and Intellectual Property (Macalester College Symposium, April 5, 2002)
See their page of Web Sites and Readings on this topic.

The Center for Academic Integrity
Information on Honor Codes, statistics about plagiarism and cheating, and documents on how to approach the problem.