Education

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Education, generally | Colleges and Universities | Lifelong Learning

Education, generally

• 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]
• Net-Happenings - Mailing list of K-12 Web sites (Educational CyberPlayGround)

Lesson Plans and Course Materials:

• 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
• See also Web for Kids

Education Indexes:

• 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

Colleges and Universities

For lists of universities in specific countries outside the U.S., see my area studies pages.

See also Dissertations and Theses

Web Directories:

• 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

Rankings and Guides:

• 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

Curricula and 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)
• Open Courseware Collections, Podcasts, and Videos - Some of the sites listed are colleges and universities; others are libraries, broadcast networks, cultural institutions (OEDB)
• World Lecture Hall - Course materials from around the world


• Free Academic Podcasts - Selected college courses

Individual Universities

• MIT OpenCourseWare - The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has started to put all of its courses' materials online, free
• UC Berkeley Webcasts

Search Engine:

• Google University Search - Allows you to choose a university's Web site to search

Preparation:

• College is Possible - Advice for those who thought they might not get to college (American Council on Education)

Education News:

• New York Times College page

Higher-Education Reform:

• Tuition-Free MIT - A thought-provoking article by Philip Greenspun

Miscellanea:

• Beloit College Mindset List - Annual list by a Wisconsin college purporting to explain incoming freshmen to professors

Livelong Learning

• Online Education Database (OEDB) - Online colleges, distance learning, continuing education
• The Self-Directed Student Toolbox: 100 Web Resources for Lifelong Learners
• See also Curricula and Courseware, above