EDUCATION

Overview

Basic degree requirements

Questions you should ask

Schools with fisheries or aquatic biology programs

 

• AFS
• Continuing Education
• Teaching Centers and Colleges and Universities
• Associations
• General
• Electronic Journals
• Teaching Tips and Other Resources
• Writing Sites (Instructions, Tips, Exercises, etc.)
   
   

AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY (AFS)

• American Fisheries Society Home Page
• Hutton Junior Fisheries Biology Program
• AFS Education lnformation
• AFS Publications
• AFS links to fisheries programs at colleges and universities
• Guidelines for Finding a Fisheries Graduate Program
• AFS Student Information (membership, scholarships, graduate programs)

EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES ON THE WEB

CONTINUING EDUCATION

• AFS Continuing Education Program
• Continuing Education Program for Natural Resource Professionals (USDA Forest Service)
• National Conservation Training Center (USFWS)

TEACHING CENTERS AT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES

• Comprehensive listing of and links to teaching centers at colleges and universities
  

ASSOCIATIONS

• National Association of Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA)
  
• The National Association of Professional Forestry Schools and Colleges (NAPFSC)
• National Association of University Fisheries and Wildlife Programs (NAUFWP)

GENERAL

• The Chronicle of Higher Education
• DIALOG
• Great collection of web sites related to teaching and learning, including teaching centers at universities (Northwestern University, Searle Center for Teaching Excellence)
  
• Teaching Resource Exchange: Pointers to journals, websites, listservs and more for college teachers (University of Iowa)
• CollegeSource Online (ISU): college catalogs of over 12,000 national and international institutions of higher education
• TEACH Great Lakes

ELECTRONIC JOURNALS

• Comprehensive list of electronic education journals (American Educational Research Association Special Interest Group)
• Comprehensive list of education journals and newsletters available on the Internet (Scottish Council for Research in Education)
• Comprehensive list of electronic education journals (University of Sheffield)
• Effective Teaching
• Journal on Excellence in College Teaching
• Journal of Research in Science Teaching
• Educational Insights
• EduCause Review
• From Now On (The Educational Technology Journal)
• Journal of Statistics Education
• Science Education
• Teaching in the Community Colleges

TEACHING TIPS AND OTHER RESOURCES

• Best practices in college teaching: tips and techniques (North Seattle Community College)
• Teaching Tips (Honolulu Community College)
• Teaching Tips (Center for Teaching Excellence, Iowa State University)
• Teaching Tips (Teaching Resource Center, University of Virginia)

WRITING SITES (INSTRUCTION, TIPS, AND EXERCISES, ETC.)

• Professor Malcolm Gibson's Wonderful World of Editing (just plain great!)
• Online English Grammar - online help with grammar and punctuation
• The Writer's Web (University of Richmond) (Great site to explore topics by stages of the writing process, exercises, tips and techniques)
• The Elements of Style - online publication of Strunk and White's guide to English usage
• Merriam-Webster Online - searchable online dictionary and thesaurus

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Last Updated June 9, 2003