It's a site maintained by cultural historians and experts in popular art and social psychology. Another link takes you to Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia and a site devoted to the South Sea Bubble, the first great stock market crash which took place in England in 1720. The riches on this site alone ought to convince even the most skeptical faculty member that in the right hands the Web can be a serious research and teaching tool, as well as being somehow fun. Here, in addition to listings of software, resources, workshops, training and so on available to faculty through the office, you'll find a rotating showcase of faculty interviews focusing on how actual faculty are using computer and Internet resources to enhance their teaching. Currently, the space features an interview with Barbara Wood, a biologist leading students in an environmental monitoring project as part of their coursework.
Many sites have pages of links to other pages.
Often these other pages are boring and redundant and not worth a faculty member's time. Its links offer an intellectual and social adventure to the cyberscholar. A few lines of annotation preview each link so that you have a better idea of what you're getting into if you decide to click on. A bit parochial in that, like the homepages of most instructional development programs, it seems bent on drawing faculty into the center, this one does a better job than most in portraying the value and vitality of the Searle Center's programs. The teaching and learning area holds a number of text files on various topics as well as links to special interest collections.