Education
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Education, generally |
Colleges and Universities |
Lifelong Learning
Education, generally
See also
- About.com: Education - For teachers, parents, students, adult learners
- Education - An annotated list of reference Websites (Library of Congress)
- Education Atlas - Detailed information for all levels of education
- Education World - Links to 500,000 sites!
- The Educator's Reference Desk [Eduref.org / AskEric.org]
- Net-Happenings - Mailing list of K-12 Web sites (Educational CyberPlayGround)
- Gateway to Educational Materials - Portal for educational materials (U.S. Dept. of Education)
- Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Includes many lesson plans
- Learning Page - Lesson plans and other materials for teachers who want to use materials from the American Memory project (Library of Congress)
- Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) - Course materials on all subjects, from around the Web
- WatchKnow - Free educational videos for K-12 students
- A+ Research & Writing for High School and College Students (Internet Public Library)
- Test Reviews Online - Reviews of mental measurements, both developmental and educational. Full reviews are available for a fee.
- Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) - Databases of reports, etc. on education (U.S. Dept. of Education)
- AERA SIG Communication of Research - Open access journals in education (American Educational Research Association)
- EdResearch Online - Australian site providing full-text journal articles for a fee
- Education-Line - U.K. database of conference papers, working papers, and electronic literature in education
Lesson Plans and Course Materials:
Study Guides:
Tests:
Education Indexes:
Colleges and Universities
See also
- Braintrack University Index - Universities in 161 countries
- General Education Online - Directory of colleges and universities in every country
- American Universities
- College Profiles
- College Locator, U.S. (ecola.com)
- U.S. Universities, by State (U. of Texas)
- English Department Home Pages Worldwide
- College and University Rankings - Links to many sources of rankings. Don't miss the section on Caution and Controversy (University of Illinois, Education and Social Science Library)
- College Search (College Board)
- Peterson's Education Portal - Test preparation, scholarship database, as well as college info
- Princeton Review
- Academic Earth - Video lectures from great teachers
- Courseopedia - Find courses near you, both online and in-person
- Coursera - Online courses from leading universities, though no college credit is awarded
- Open Courseware Collections, Podcasts, and Videos - Some of the sites listed are colleges and universities; others are libraries, broadcast networks, cultural institutions (OEDB)
- TED - (Technology, Education, Design) - "Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world"
- World Lecture Hall - Course materials from around the world
- Free Academic Podcasts - Selected college courses
- OCW Search - Search engine for open courseware
- Syllabus Finder - Use this special search engine of syllabi to find how colleges and universities are teaching a subject (Center for History and New Media, George Mason University)
- MIT OpenCourseWare - The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has started to put all of its courses' materials online, free
- UC Berkeley Webcasts
- FastWeb - Scholarships, financial aid, and other ways to pay for college
- College is Possible - Advice for those who thought they might not get to college (American Council on Education)
- Chronicle of Higher Education
- New York Times College page
- Tuition-Free MIT - A thought-provoking article by Philip Greenspun
- Beloit College Mindset List - Annual list by a Wisconsin college purporting to explain incoming freshmen to professors
For lists of universities in specific countries outside the U.S., see my area studies pages.
Web Directories:
Rankings and Guides:
Curricula and Courseware:
Curriculum Search Engines
Individual Universities' Courseware
Scholarships, Financial Aid, etc.:
Preparation:
Education News:
Higher-Education Reform:
Miscellanea:
Lifelong Learning
See also
- Curricula and Courseware, above
- Online Education Database (OEDB) - Online colleges, distance learning, continuing education