Education world - where educators go to learn: Search engine for educational Web sites only, a place where educators could find information without searching the entire Internet. News from USA Today, monthly site reviews, lesson plans, articles written by education experts, and information on how to make the best use of technology in the classroom let educators find ideas at the click of a mouse.
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse: U.S. Department of Education. A searchable database of materials included are instructional or professional development resources for teaching materials for K-12 math and science. Types of materials include: curriculum programs, videotapes, CD-ROMs, workbooks, games, journal articles, workshop materials, textbooks, children's literature, web sites, calculators and probeware, manipulatives, lesson plans, lab manuals, and kits.
The Exploratorium: A museum of Science, Art and Human Perception. "A collage of 650 interactive exhibits. It provides access to, and information about, science, nature, art and technology. It was founded in 1969 by noted physicist and educator Dr. Frank Oppenheimer, who devoted his efforts to it -- and was its director -- until his death in 1985. Dr. Goery Delacote, a renowned French scientist, science educator and public servant, was named executive director of the Exploratorium in February 1991"
General Educational Journals: All the journals listed relate to learning and teaching in some way.
MERLOT: A free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Links to online learning materials are collected here along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments.
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant: Professor Chuck Guilford of Boise state University. Aids writers in a different way from well-known Online Writing Labs (OWLs), such as Purdue University's, in that it concentrates on helping students think about how to conceive a writing project instead of giving nuts and bolts aids on grammar and style. This site contains sections on discovering what to write, organizing, revising and editing your writing, various types of essays, including thesis/support, argumentative, exploratory, and informal, and documenting sources. Each section is accompanied by activities to help students to incorporate the concepts.
TeacherLink: Resources for teachers including internet links, lesson plans, teacher aids, multimedia files etc.
Teacher's Guide for the Professional Cartoonists' Index: Daryl Cagle. Large collection of newspaper editorial cartoons on the web. Lesson plans for using the editorial cartoons as a teaching tool in Social Sciences, Art, Journalism and English are available.
World Lecture Hall: This page of UT Austin Web Central contains links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver class materials. For example, you will find course syllabi, assignments, lecture notes, exams, class calendars, multimedia textbooks, etc.
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Life Sciences & Chemical Technology
Academic Info Biology Education Resources: An online subject directory to quality, relevant, and current Internet resources on Biology.
Academic Info Microbiology & Virology Education Resources: An online subject directory to quality, relevant, and current Internet resources on Microbiology & Virology.
Access Excellence: A U.S. national educational program that provides high school biology teachers access to their colleagues, scientists, and critical sources of new scientific information via the World Wide Web. Provides a computer network forum on which teachers can share their innovative teaching ideas and activities; access information, expert assistance and the advice and experience of other teachers to create new ideas, and best practices. Includes Column on biotechnology.
The Online Ethics Center for Engineering & Science: Provides engineers, scientists, and science and engineering students with resources for understanding and addressing ethically significant problems that arise in their work, and to serve those who are promoting learning and advancing the understanding of responsible research and practice in science and engineering.Back to top
Business Open Learning Archive: University of Brunel. Includes accounting and business study materials, case studies, and links to other major business education sites.perspectives of individual countries.
The International Business Environment: Independent Study Program. School of Continuing Studies, Indiana University. "This is an example of an award-winning international business course taught entirely online. " - from Indiana University, Kelly School of Business homepage.MERLOT Business: A free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Links to business related materials are collected here along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments.
ON Business Training & Education Resources: An innovative, leading-edge business resource and information Web site. Includes discussion forums, library where you may browse resources by subjects.
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A Beginner's Guide to HTML: National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
CTI Resource Guide (Computing Resources): CTI Centres, University of Ulster. This Centre aims to promote use of high quality software for higher education.
Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial: It includes an introduction to the Internet, a glossary of terms, things to know before searching the World Wide Web, how to create such strategies, and how to refine your topic and indentify the search tools to fits your needs.
MERLOT: Information Technology: A free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Links to IT related materials are collected here along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments.
RDN Virtual Training Suite: Resource Discovery Network. A set of free online tutorials designed to help students, lecturers and researchers improve their Internet information literacy and IT skills. There is a tutorial for most of the subjects taught in universities and colleges, with quizzes and interactive exercises.
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MIT OpenCourseWare: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The website provides a free and searchable access to MIT's course materials for educators in the non-profit sector, students, and individual learners around the world. Near full coverage of MIT curriculum is expected in 2007.
National Engineering Education Delivery System (NEEDS) : "an online database of multimedia engineering courseware and other educational material. Originally containing courseware developed by Synthesis , a US National Engineering Education Coalition, the NEEDS database is expanding to include quality courseware nationwide".
Tucows: A software library, downloads available.
Virginia Tech Computer Science Courses: Repositories of Computer Science courseware.
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About: A guide to online resources on English as Second Language.
Journalism and Mass Communication Education: 2001 and Beyond: Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Reports by the subcommittees of the Task Force include Teaching and Learning in the New Millennium, Professions in the New Millennium and reports from the New Media Summit convention panel.
Teacher resources (Ohio ESL): Provides resources for the language teacher.
The Language Tester's Guide to Cyberspace
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Academic Info Mathematics Education: An online subject directory to quality, relevant, and current Internet resources on Mathematics.
Academic Info Statistics Education: An online subject directory to quality, relevant, and current Internet resources on Statistics.
NCTM Illuminations: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (US). Activities and resources that are appropriate for teachers at the 9-12 grade level for use as they reflect on, plan for, and implement Standards-based mathematics education in their classrooms.
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Clipart.com: JupiterImages. Access more than 5,000,000 clipart images, animations, photos, fonts, and sound clips! [Intranet]
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