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Across the Drafts: Students and Teachers Talk about Feedback: Shaped by Writing, the Undergraduate Experience

JMU Media Resources DVD 1612

Cambridge, Mass. : Expository Writing Program, Harvard University, 2005

1 DVD (32 min.)
Beginning in 1997, the Harvard Study of Undergraduate Writing followed 400 students from the Class of 2001 through their four years of college. Feedback emerged as the hero and anti-hero of the Harvard Study -- powerful enough to convince students they could or couldn't do the work in a given field, to push them toward or away from selecting their majors, and contributed, more than any other single factor, to their sense of academic belonging or alienation. In the 18-minute film Across the Drafts, students and faculty talk about the challenges and rewards of giving and receiving feedback. This DVD also contains Shaped by Writing, a 14-minute film in which 8 students who participated in the Harvard Study, along with their faculty, talk about the role of writing in an undergraduate education. Both Across the Drafts and Shaped by Writing are designed to be used as catalysts for further discussion in the classroom and in professional development workshops.

English language -- Composition and exercises

Are You History?: Faculty Job Security in an Online World
JMU Media Resources Videotape no.6512

1 VHS (90 min.) + 1 participant packet (21 p.)
Program explores the future of faculty roles in colleges and universities and the concern that these roles might be replaced by technology and adjunct faculty.

Education, Higher -- Effect of technological innovations on
Job security
College teachers -- Tenure
Universities and colleges -- Faculty

Best Practices for Your Website: Staying out of Legal Trouble

JMU Media Resources Videotape no.8307

Mill Valley, CA : Kantola Productions : Stanford Video, c2003

1 VHS (47 min.)
Jon Hart, partner, Dow, Lohnes and Albertson PLLC, discusses web publishing rights, what constitutes "fair use," privacy policies, trademark law and other legal concepts related to owning and maintaining a website.

Electronic commerce -- Law and legislation -- United States
Internet -- Law and legislation -- United States
Web site development -- Law and legislation -- United States

College Days, College Nights
Media Resources DVD 4312 AVAILABLE

~Connect to video online (JMU users)~

Princeton, NJ : Films Media Group ; Lawrenceville, NJ : Cambridge Educational, c2007
1 DVD-R (90 min.)
Chronicles the college experience and lives of seven college students at the University of British Columbia.

University of British Columbia -- Students
College students -- British Columbia -- Conduct of life

Critical Challenges in Distance Education
JMU Media Resources Videotape no.7500

Publisher [Alexandria, VA : PBS Adult Learning Satellite Service, c2003]

1 VHS (90 min.) + 1 pamphlet (33 p.)
Panel discussion by three leading copyright experts on: the implications of the new TEACH (Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization) Act for teaching and learning online; the continuing role of 'fair use' in analyzing copyright issues in distance education; efficient procedures for obtaining copyright clearance for materials for online courses; institutional policies on copyright and online learning.

Copyright and distance education -- United States
Fair use (Copyright) -- United States
Copyright infringement -- United States

Declining by Degrees: higher education at risk
Internet-JMU Users AE5 .P37 Internet

~Connect to video online (JMU users)~

Alexandria, Va.: PBS Video, [2005, p2005]

1 streaming video file ( 120 min.)
This documentary, set on four different college campuses, examines both the promise and the peril in higher education today.

Education, Higher -- United States

The Derek Bok Center Series on College Teaching
Media Resources DVD 4392-4398

Cambridge, MA : Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University, c2007
7 DVD (ca. 7 hrs.)
Contents: Disc 1. Thinking together : collaborative learning in science (18 min.) ; From question to concepts : interactive teaching in physics (29 min.). Disc 2. Race in the classroom : the multiplicity of experience (19 min.) ; Women in the classroom : cases for discussion (27 min.). Disc 3. Teaching in America : a guide for international faculty (38 min.) ; What students want : teaching from a student's perspective (24 min.). Disc 4. The art of discussion leading : a class with Chris Christensen (30 min.) ; The art of the lecture : Justice, a Harvard University course in moral reasoning (28 min.). Disc 5. How to speak : lecture tips from Patrick Winston (45 min.) ; Technically speaking : making complex matters simple (38 min.). Disc 6. The act of teaching : pt. 1. Theater techniques for classrooms and presentations (42 min.) ; pt. 2. Physical and vocal exercises (15 min.). Disc 7. Teaching political science with Stanley Hoffmann (38 min.); Teaching poetry with Helen Vendler (39 min.).

College teaching -- United States
Classroom environment
Multicultural education
Teachers, Foreign -- United States
Discussion -- Study and teaching
Lecture method in teaching
College teachers -- United States
Discrimination in higher education -- United States
Sex discrimination in higher education -- United States
Science -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States
Physics -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States
Poetry -- Study and teaching -- United States

Generation Next 2.0

Media Resources DVD 4311

Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2007
1 DVD-R (58 min.)
Note: A sequel to the documentary Generation Next
Judy Woodruff guides viewers across the United States to gain insight into the beliefs of young adult America.

Generation Y -- United States -- Conduct of life -- 21st century
Young adults -- United States -- Conduct of life -- 21st century
Social values -- United States -- 21st century

How Change Happens: Breaking the "Teach as You Were Taught" Cycle in Science and Math
JMU Media Resources DVD 1656

Publisher Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2000, c2004

1 DVD (25 min.)
This program showcases innovative teaching techniques as performed by science and math professors of Hampshire College, the University of Massachusetts, and Springfield Technical Community College. Demonstrates how these instructors have succeeded in increasing their students' engagement with the subject matter by applying active learning, cooperative group work, and alternative test-taking techniques. An excellent tool for stimulating discussion among faculty members about course and curriculum reform. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

Science -- Study and teaching
Mathematics -- Study and teaching
Effective teaching
College teaching
Active learning
Group work in education
Curriculum planning
Educational innovations

Pedagogy 101 for Distance Learning

JMU Media Resources Videotape no.8393

Austin, Tex. : Starlink, 2005
1 VHS (90 min.) + 1 participant packet (20 p.)

Series: Professional Development Seminars on Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century
Taped from a live interactive videoconference, this program examines online education pedagogy, pointing to similarities between on- and off-site methods of instruction to dispel the negative myths associated with distance learning

Distance education -- United States
College teaching -- United States

The Power of One

JMU Media Resources Videotape no.8624

Columbia, SC: National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, c2003
1 VHS (25 min.) + 1 resource guide ( 42 p.)
Sustainable living requires learning to live in harmony with the natural world and to do so in a way that allows community and commerce to thrive.

College students
College student orientation
Sustainable development -- Citizen participation
Environmental education -- United States
Environmental ethics -- Study and teaching

Racial Preference in Higher Education
JMU Media Resources Videotape no.7249

Publisher New York : Insight Media ; c2000

1 VHS
Examines racial prejudice in the American university system.

Discrimination in higher education -- United States
Affirmative action programs -- United States
College teachers -- Employment -- United States
Minorities -- Education (Higher) -- United States

Teaching and Learning With Case Studies

Media Resources DVD 4442

New York, NY : Distributed by Insight Media, c2004
1 DVD-R (30 min.)
Presents a five-step method for analyzing case studies in the classroom. Using excerpts from the video case "What to do about Raymond," case study expert Mary Sudzina leads a case study discussion among a class of students, and shows interactive techniques that work to engage students in discussions.

Case method -- Study and teaching
Educational films, videos
Nonfiction films, videos, tv programs

Virtual Universities
JMU Media Resources Videotape no.6489

1 VHS (90 min.) + 1 packet
Video recording of the February 3, 2000 teleconference from Dallas Telelearning. Representatives of leading virtual universities discuss what they are doing and the impact they are having on traditional colleges and universities. How successful are virtual universities? Are they fulfilling their mission or falling short? Changing the face of higher education or distorting its vision? Includes participant packet.

Southern Regional Education Board
United States Open University
University of Phoenix Online
Distance education
Video recordings for the hearing impaired