| Resource Name | Comments |
| Advanced Placement Digital Library |
“The Advanced Placement Digital Library (APDL) is a collection of recommended Internet resources in biology, chemistry, physics, and English for AP or pre-AP students. Funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, this project includes resources that are reviewed by a panel of AP educators and linked to the College Board AP content outlines. Users can find information by accessing the subject tabs and scrolling through the list of subtopics of the more than 1,000 Web sites available” -- Choice |
| “The Center for Collaborative and Interactive Technologies at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston did its homework before launching BioEd Online. This site is an excellent resource for science teacher educators and K-16 teachers and student teachers, providing high-quality, reliable scientific content as well as practical lesson ideas.” – Choice | |
| Center for Academic Integrity. |
"Its Web site offers a clearinghouse of academic integrity resources designed for and by North American schools and universities. Although many individual institutions' sites provide useful material on academic dishonesty, CAI appears unique in its one-stop approach. Though far from comprehensive, this site may be the best available starting place for those beginning their study of academic integrity issues. Some parts are open to the public, and others are restricted to members." -- Choice |
| “Established in 2007, the UK based Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies Web site is a resource designed to assist those who wish to discover and develop tools and strategies for e-learning projects. Adhering to its tag line "Making Sense of E-Learning Trends, Technologies and Tools," the Centre alerts users to emerging technologies and seeks to support innovative e-learning practices by sharing information that encourages familiarity and facility with selected e-learning tools. The site is a hybrid resource promoting both free tools and commercial services. It presents some sponsored advertising but also provides useful free resources.” – Choice | |
| “This excellent resource for practitioners and researchers focuses on "high quality research in child care and early education and the use of that research in policy making." The extensive resources available on the site are impressive. Funded by the Child Care Bureau of the US Department of Health and Human Services, the site and its partners, the National Center for Children in Poverty and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, bring expertise to their task.” – Choice | |
| College and university rankings |
"CUR, developed by the Education and Social Science Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, intends to assemble and provide context for the many rankings of colleges and universities in the US and other countries. It acknowledges the fascination in this country with institutions considered "best" and allows users to compare lists." -- Choice |
| Distance Education.org. | According to the information in the "about us" section, this site was founded in 2007 by individuals who worked in the online education field and saw a need for a more comprehensive site focused on online education. Accordingly, their aim is "to provide an incredible platform of tools for finding the right online education university or online course for the online student." Distance Education.org features a tool to allow users to choose online degrees or programs and compare their estimated costs at different universities. The site currently covers 35 universities, providing a basic overview, a list of degree programs, accreditation information, and links to request more instruction for each." -- Choice |
| Education Report Card. |
“Maintained by the US Chamber of Commerce, this site provides reports that assess the educational system of each state in several categories, e.g., academic achievement, academic achievement of low-income and minority students, return on investment, rigor of standards, and postsecondary and workforce readiness.” – Choice |
| “ESLgold is a free, highly developed site for individuals wanting to practice English language skills, including speaking, listening, reading, writing, grammar, and vocabulary; it includes links for business English. All materials are organized by skill and level (low beginning to advanced) for easy access. The site provides some of its own materials but also links to other well-respected language learning Web sites.” -- Choice | |
| “EduHound is valuable for students, teachers, parents, and anyone else interested in a comprehensive menu of educational resources. President and creator Judith Rajala is a former K-12 educator, and she mines the Internet for classroom resources and tools to enhance learning. The site includes links to resources for most subjects taught in the K-12 curriculum and also provides links to community resources (e.g., museums), grants and funding, and professional sites for teachers (e.g., associations, publications, governmental agencies, and curriculum standards).” – Choice | |
| Internet Detective |
“Internet Detective remains an excellent tutorial for college students on how to effectively evaluate Web sites for their value as academic resources. Unlike the earlier edition, this one does not require users to register and log in. Users can progress through the many pages of the site in an hour or so if they read all the text and follow all the links provided as examples. For those who do not wish to complete the entire tutorial in one sitting, a table of contents allows navigation to any of the 35 pages of instruction. The table of contents is consistent with the site's title, with sections cleverly titled, e.g., What's the Story? (why this site is relevant), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (sites commended and sites condemned), and Detective Work (a case-by-case analysis of what to look for and look out for on Web sites).” – Choice |
| Internet Tutorials |
“This site by Cohen (previously reviewed, CH, Sup'99, 36Sup-043) offers clearly written Internet tutorials that are updated frequently. The tutorials describing search engines, second-generation searching, and subject directories are very informational and well organized, with clear, brief annotations.” – Choice |
| Learn the Net: The Internet Owner's Manual | “Topics include everything from using the site to mastering the basics, surfing the Web, e-mailing, Web publishing, etc. There is a great interactive tutorial, "How Search Engines Work." Date of last update is noted in the tutorials. "This Week on Learn the Net" offers features such as "Today's Top Tech Headlines" and cool tools. Ads are clearly marked. The site is available in Spanish and French as well as in English.” – Choice |
| MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching. |
“MERLOT offers an extensive collection of online learning materials, all of which are peer reviewed and rated by 15 discipline-specific editorial boards including biology, business, history, music, psychology, world languages, and information technology. Board members consist of higher education faculty with subject expertise as well as experience using technology pedagogically. Each board develops evaluation criteria and ensures that materials added to MERLOT are authoritative and have been analyzed for their educational value. Since its inception in 1997, MERLOT has developed into a robust resource for education at all levels.” – Choice |
| MIT OpenCourseWare. |
“MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a Web-based electronic publishing initiative funded jointly by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, MIT, and Ab Initio software company. OCW's goal is to provide free, searchable access to MIT's course materials. This site will be useful for faculty and students who could use the course information for additional ideas, inspiration, or reading lists.” – Choice |
| Open Yale Courses |
"Open Yale Courses provides free access to introductory-level college courses offered by Yale faculty and scholars. At the time of this review, courses were available from the astronomy, English, philosophy, physics, political science, psychology, and religious studies departments at Yale. Courses are organized by class sessions, and each session is available as a text transcript, audio (MP3 files), or video (in QuickTime). Resources such as handouts and activities and the course syllabus are also made readily available, so anyone can complete the course just as it is offered at Yale, minus the faculty/student interaction. Overachieving students, students who find that similar courses are not offered at their current institution, or independent learners would do well to examine the offerings at this user-friendly site." -- Choice |
| TeacherLingo |
"One of the biggest problems with blogging is getting other people to read and respond to the blog. This site solves that problem for teachers by creating a comprehensive blog community for educators where bloggers can create, connect, and read other peoples' blogs as well as attract readers for their own efforts." -- Choice |
| TeachNet |
"This Web site is a K-12 teacher's dream, providing educational resources and contact with other teachers. As a nonprofit organization, TeachNet has been in operation since 1996. A list of corporate sponsors and individual donors indicates the diversity of its supporters." -- Choice |
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