Online Reference - Education
General Education Sites:
EDSITEment Designed to help
educators integrate the Internet as a standard classroom resource, this
site covers valuable online resources for teaching English, history, art
history, and foreign languages. The Lesson Plans describe teaching
goals, skills, and suggested activities in great detail.
World Education Encyclopedia from Gale Virtual Reference, 2001. This
country-by-country survey of educational systems provides detailed
essays on the histories, legal foundations, and primary and secondary
educational systems of 233 countries.
Off Campus Instructions
Educator's Reference Desk This site
gives access to "2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education
information,... It also provides search to ERIC [Educational Resources
Information Center] Database," Database is updated monthly and includes
citations from 1966 to the present. From the Information Institute of
Syracuse (IIS)
Education World
A resource that includes a search engine for educational Web sites only,
site reviews; original content, including lesson plans, practical
information for educators, information on how to integrate technology in
the classroom, and articles written by education experts; and more.
Gateway to Educational Materials
(GEM) Annotated directory of Internet lesson plans, curriculum units,
and activities pertaining to K-12 subjects. Users can browse sites by
subject or keyword, desired grade or education level. Sources include
the Living SchoolBook, the American Museum of Natural History, the
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse, Math Forum, and the North Carolina
Department of Public Instruction. From the U.S. Department of Education.
PBS TeacherSource
Thousands of lesson plans and activities, organized in broad topics
(such as Health and Fitness and Social Studies) and as Concepts Across
the Curriculum, presented as monthly themes.
Teaching and
Learning from University of Nevada - Extensive list of teaching &
learning resources and information.
Universities Worldwide This site lists
nearly 7,000 universities in over 170 countries, including the United
States.
Education
(usnews.com) This site from U.S. News & World Report is designed to
help users choose a college or graduate school.
Distance Education: Top
Distance Education Clearinghouse
Comprehensive, annotated, searchable, up-to-date directory of resources.
Maryland Faculty Online:
Resources & Activities from Maryland Faculty Online Assignment and
Activities link of resources for teaching with technology
T.H.E. Journal This online
edition of the journal has articles and other material aimed at
"educators involved in integrating technology on their campuses and into
their curricula." Archives back to 1994.
The TEACH
Toolkit: An Online Resource for Understanding Copyright and Distance
Education
Education & Technology:
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Center for Applied Research in
Educational Technology (CARET) The site features critical reviews of
articles and studies related to educational technology. A review may
include a link to the full text of the reviewed article. Also provides a
suggested reading list, a question-and-answer section, a glossary, and
links to related material.
MERLOT is 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.
Teaching and Learning with Technology Many links from St Johns University
Libraries
Syllabus Magazine Archives Back
issues of Syllabus magazine, with links to articles on a broad range of
subjects related to online teaching and learning
UMUC Virtual Resource Site for Teaching with Technology: Teaching
Learning Activities arranged according to their use of 14 different
Web-based technologies.
Information about each Technology.
Information Literacy:
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Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education from ACRL
Directory of Online
Resources for Information Literacy Includes overview (with links) of
the information literacy process, covering such topics as locating
information, critical thinking, evaluating sources, plagiarism, and
citing what you find. It also provides most useful definitions of
information literacy and competence; media, computer, and visual
literacy; and life-long and resource-based learning.
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