Guides: Graduate Student Services: Teaching

Teaching Resources

Free Textbooks and Open Educational Resources
The Mason OER Metafinder helps you find Open Educational Resources. Unlike other OER discovery sites (e.g, OER Commons, OASIS, MERLOT, OpenStax, etc.) with the Metafinder you aren’t searching a static database. Instead, the OER Metafinder launches a real-time, simultaneous search across 22 different sources of open educational materials as you hit the Search button.
Free Streaming Video
TTU Libraries offers several collections of streaming films and videos in a wide variety of subject areas that you search to find films that you can stream in class.
Free Images
Public Domain Sherpa features not only free images, but free books, maps, photos, sheet music, and sound recordings that you can use in class. Other good sources of free images include Google Advanced Image Search and Creative Commons Search.
Copyright in the Classroom
This resource provides information about what materials can be used in a classroom setting under current copyright law and exemptions. It provides examples of what is permissible under the fair use exception.

Course Reserves

Course Reserves is a service available to Texas Tech faculty and students. Graduate students can reserve materials for their classes and their students have the ability to access the materials that have been reserved all in one convenient place.

Examples of items that can be reserved include, but are not limited to, the following:

Any book owned by Texas Tech Libraries, including eBooks
Instructor owned copies of class resources
Media, such as DVDs
Physical resources, such as robotic kits, flashcard sets, or 3D printed models for study (see Document Delivery for more information about 3D printed objects for classroom use)
To submit course reserve materials for the Main Library, please click the submit request button on the Request Course Reserves page on the Library's website in the section on Research and Teaching. For more assistance, please contact libraries.reserve@ttu.edu or (806) 742-2159.
To submit course reserve materials for the Architecture Library, please contact libraries.architecture@ttu.edu to arrange for those materials to be placed on reserve at the Architecture Library.

Build Your Students' Research Skills

Basics of Library Research Splash Help develop your students' research skills so they can find the highest-quality resources, cite sources correctly, and turn in better papers!

Librarians can demonstrate how to navigate the research process effectively and locate and evaluate research materials—essential skills for undergraduate students.
Graduate student TAs can request that a librarian visit their class to give a library instruction session. Topics could include:

Selecting a research topic
Locating subject-specific databases
Search strategies
Evaluating sources
Conducting literature reviews
and more!

Teaching Resources for Graduate Students

Pitt Graduate Student Teaching Resources
Find information here about active learning classroom activities, lesson plans, encouraging student participation, conducting class discussions, teaching portfolios, and other topics.
Yale Teaching Resources
This site offers information about how to create teaching statements, syllabi, and lectures, and how to use technology, and suggestions for teaching controversial topics and teaching students at different levels.