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Workplace and Professional Development Showcase

This page provides a showcase of examples of e-learning solutions designed for the workplace and professional development.

Articles in date order, most recent first.

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Rezaaa

Your source to Online Coaching - Professional coaching on over 120 in-demand subjects right now without delay! Improve your skills easily and quickly!

Added: 07 February 2008
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The Saatchi Gallery - Museum

Museums around the world may register to upload their artwork and images of their museum

Added: 15 November 2007
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Exponentian Virtual Workshop

“eXponentia is an automotive manufacturer consortium. The training relies on the use of an interactive ‘Virtual Workshop’, and has been developed for both instructor led delivery and on both CD and for delivery over the Internet.”

Added: 23 July 2007
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A Demo version of the software

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Teachers TV Video Resources

“Teachers TV has over 1,500 high quality programmes. These cover every subject in the national curriculum, every professional role in schools, and all the key issues in education.”

Added: 09 July 2007
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Screen 16:9 - e-learninig video application

“Screen 16:9 specialise in Flash video and interactive learning tools. They area supplier of this service to the BBC and other clients. THe company can also provide animation and motion capture as well as c++ programming.”

Added: 19 June 2007
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Alison Global Learning Platform

“Alison is a global learning platform where individuals can access interactive e-learning materials free of charge, and content providers can reach a global market.”

Added: 4 June 2007
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A free learning resource of interactive certification-based learning

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Local Government Management

“The BTEC Advanced Certificate in Local Government Management is a fully supported qualification programme that delivers a cost effective and highly flexible solution to developing team leaders/first line managers. It offers the reward of a national qualification for participants and increases organisational capacity to respond to the challenges ahead.”

Added: 10 April 2007
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Company based in the UK

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Business Ethics

“This course is suitable for supervisors and managers who need the skills and knowledge to ensure they effectively manage themselves and others at work. The course content is mapped to ILM Level 3, Introductory Certificate in First Line Management and Certificate in First Line Management, hence it is especially suitable for those studying for this qualification. However, anyone in a management position will find invaluable tips and reminders towards ethics at workplace and business, from this course.”

Added: 11 December 2006
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This is a demo version with only module 1 activated

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Distress … to de-stress

“Designed to help learners recognise, analyse and deal with stress. The course uses real life examples and case studies to sensitise learners about the potential sources of stress, and suggests strategies for dealing with stress and achieving a balance in life.”

Added: 6 November 2006
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This is a demo version with only module 1 activated

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e-Officehealth

“Online interactive training and risk assessments covering Fire Safety, Workstation Ergonomics and Manual Handling.(Software trial available from e-officehealth.co.uk) Designed to deliver organisational compliance with: employee training requirement under the Regulatory Reform Oder (Fire Safety) 2005. Display Screen Equipment Regulations 1992, the Manual Handling Regulations 1992.”

Added: 23 February 2006
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Demos available

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Infection Control Demo

“This demonstration module provides a brief overview of a complete course (10 modules) on infection control. The e-learning course is accredited by Glasgow Caledonian University and can be used as part of a nursing degree qualification.”

Added: 2 July 2006
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To view this demo you will need the ‘Flash’ player

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Trustee Toollkit

“The Trustee toolkit has been developed to help trustees (and anyone else who is interested in occupational pension schemes) meet the requirements for trustee knowledge and understanding, introduced by the Pensions Act 2004.”

Added: 14 June 2006
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Sign up to log in

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Keeping safe

“Keeping Safe is an e-learning course for staff and carers in schools, family centres and childrens homes, or foster carers, who may have to deal with challenging behaviour from young people. The course addresses positive behaviour management and safe touch, holding and restraint.” From Kwango Ltd

Added: 20 October 2005
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In the full course twenty-five video clips, over one hundred photographs plus narration, animation and text describe and demonstrate Keeping Safe skills.  In this sample of the course you can view some of the skills and try the quiz to see how much you know about positive behaviour management and safe touch, holding and restraint!

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Ready for Work

“Ready for Work is a new FREE online learning programme for everyone currently (or recently) in full-time education. Ready for Work offers you 12 short online training courses on subjects of real importance to all prospective employers. The entire learning programme is free to you.”

Added: 27 May 2005
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Once you have completed at least 10 of the 12 courses and achieved 80% in each one, you can optionally request a Ready for Work Certificate and a Ready for Work Handbook at a cost of £10.00 inc vat.

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Basic Principles of Selling and The Leadership Experience

“These two courses illustrate the use of multimedia and learning interactions in e-learning and blended learning to improve ’soft’ skills (behavioural change) rather than just ‘hard’ skills (knowledge transfer)”  From Kwango

Added: 26 May 2005
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Also available Empowering Others course

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Games-based business and management skills development

“Access to two FREE unrestricted games-based learning resources - ‘Mind your own business’ and ‘The Export Game’.” From PIXELearning

Added: 26 May 2005
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You will need to provide contact details to access these games

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Learning Game Trilogy

“The Games Trilogy is comprised of three unique offerings covering IP Communications, Security and Storage Networking. Rockin’ Retailer enables users to learn the benefits of IP Communication solutions while addressing issues with communication, inventory and customer service. Network Defenders tests networking knowledge and allows users to learn how to defend against relentless security attacks. With SAN Rover, players traverse Mars in a Rover building a Storage Area Network (SAN). High scores for all games are recorded and displayed for other gamers.” From Cisco

Added: 21 April 2005
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Individuals playing the game will need to enter a Cisco.com ID and password, available free on the Cisco website, before they can enter the site to play a game.

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News University

“We offer innovative online training through self-directed modules, eSeminars and faculty-led courses that target all types of media and all levels of experience. Writing and reporting techniques. Insights into visual journalism. Courses on ethics and values. Skills for newsroom leaders. We’ve got it all.”

Added: 12 April 2005
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“NewsU is a project of The Poynter Institute and the Knight Foundation to offer tightly focused courses that appeal to print, broadcast and online journalists.”

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Cancer pain management

“An interactive tutorial with self assessment for healthcare workers and students involved with managing pain in cancer patients.”

Added: 27 September 2004
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“This site is aimed at all healthcare practitioners involved in pain management for patients with cancer, including specialist nurses, junior doctors, general practitioners, GP registrars and senior medical students.”

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PlantWeb University

“PlantWeb University makes it easy to understand and evaluate new ways to improve project, process, and plant performance. And it’s free!”

Added: 20 August 2004
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Each course takes only a few minutes to complete. An optional quiz lets you review what you’ve learned and earn Reward Points to exchange for valuable gifts.

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Current Learning in Palliative Care (CLIP)

“Helping others to learn about caring for people with advanced disease has always been a fundamental part of effective palliative care.  The aim is to resource existing professionals, carers and teams with the knowledge and skills needed in their daily work.”  Help the Hospices

Added: 2 August 2004
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CLIP worksheets grew from the idea of a “coffee update”.  The principle was to develop a flexible learning material that could be used over a coffee break, but could also be used in a variety of settings. All the CLIP worksheets have now been adapted as a set of simple web-based tutorials.

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Global Pastors Network

“Touch. Teach. Train. This is the work of the Global Pastors Network. Through the On-Time-Learning curriculum, pastors like you around the world have access to some of the finest teaching and pastoral training available today.”

Added: 22 May 2004
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View on-time sample videos

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Funeral Campus

“FuneralCampus™ is a leading provider of interactive online funeral and death care industry continuing education. Our online training programs help you save time and money by allowing you to fulfill your continuing education requirements online, anytime.”

Added: 19 May 2004
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FuneralCampus courses have been certified for license renewal if five initial states including Illinois, Washington, North Carolina, New Jersey and Tennessee.

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UKHEP e-learning

“UK Healthcare Education Partnership (UKHEP) offers a range of e-learning opportunities designed for healthcare professionals across the UK and worldwide.”

Added; 18 May 2004
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UKHEP is a joint venture between City University, the University of Leicester, the University of Ulster and the Royal College of Nursing (RCN)

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Care2Learn

 

Added: 9 May 2004
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Online continuing education courses available for healthcare professionals in Maryland, USA

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freeCME.com

“The new site enables physicians to earn sophisticated and comprehensive continuing medical education (CME) credits at no cost and to manage their completed course requirements easily.”

Added: 6 May 2004
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“The underlying technology enables physicians to complete their learning online, take the necessary tests, and receive immediate grading and delivery of CME certificates as well as accurate tracking of courses taken.”

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e-Office Safety

“e-Office Safety is a health and safety e-learning and assessment program. The system is supplied with its own data management system, which enables administrators to manage the assessments and offer ergonomics advice.” AN e-learningwmb demo.

Added: 7 April 2004
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A FREE 10 user DSE assessment can be run from this site.

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the online learning center for medical imaging professionals

“Whatever your imaging specialty — MR - CT - X-Ray - Ultrasound - Cardiac - Vascular - PACS, we have programs geared for your specific needs.”

Added: 21 March 2004
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“The Online Learning Center can provide you with a number of learning experiences including the basic text with images all the way up to the newest technology of webcasting and everything in between.”

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Inspiring learning for all

“is for people working in museums, libraries and archives to inspire you to: discover what people learn in your museum, archive or library; find out what you are doing well already to inspire and support learning; plan how to improve what you do”  From the MLA

Added: 3 March 2004
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Estelle Morris, Minister of State for the Arts says “This remarkable research highlights the excellent work of Britain’s regional museums. It demonstrates that the Renaissance in the Regions programme has had a real impact on pupil’s attitudes and achievement.”

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EduMine

“Online Professional Development and Technical Reference for Mining and the Geosciences”

Added: 8 February 2004
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The EduMine mission is “to be the leading Internet source of online professional development and technical reference for the mining and geoscience communities”

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Gov Online Learning Center

USALearning (formerly GoLearn.gov). The one-stop source for training and development products, tools, and services sponsored by the e-Training Initiative and the e-Training Service Provider Consortium.

Updated: 29 October 2005
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one-stop access to e-training services for more than 1.8 million people employed by the US federal government

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Geronurse

“The Gerontological Demonstration Project is an important pioneering initiative intended to create an infrastructure for e-based learning to promote the attainment of evidence-based gerontological practice in Scotland.”

Added: 1 November 2003
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Implementing Lean manufacturing

“The aerospace industry is being transformed by Lean manufacturing process, enabled by the broadband classroom

Added: 23 January 2003
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“The course was developed by Line Communications as part of the broadbandshow, a West Country initiative that aims to show small and medium sized companies (SMEs)how they can use broadband to transform their businesses.”

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Airport security screener

“Check out how good you are at spotting threats in this simulation”

Added: 25 July 2003
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After the introduction you have two minutes to check out 23 bags going through the scanner

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National College for School Leadership

“The College’s Leadership Development Framework (LDF) is centred around the belief that schools should be supported in developing leaders at all levels (distributed leadership).”

Added: 29 March 2003
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The College offers blended learning solutions for aspiring and existing headteachers

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BricksorClicks.com

“As you look out the window of your corner office,  you watch the city workers remove the holiday decorations from the lampposts and store them away for another year. Your mind is racing however, as you think about your next steps as CEO of ToyBlock Co. It was a remarkable holiday season for your company, You achieved record revenues through all of your marketing channels - megamarts, boutique stores, and surprisingly the e-tailers. In fact, ToyBlocks’ sales to online toy retailers tripled from last year, causing a flurry of questions to swim through your head … You’ve got to make some decisions fast - the Board of Directors, and chairman Ted Twilson, are very anxious about this issue. They’ve made it clear that they don’t want to be left in the dust of an Internet revolution. But ultimately, your success depends on the continued prosperity of ToyBlocks Co. You must consider industry trends and potential channel issues before making a decision…”

Added: 10 July 2003
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A marketing simulation/game

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Return to Mars

“Demo of NASA’s first interactive e-learning course of Project Management developed by 16by9 studios.”

Added: 3 December 2002
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To access the demo, select e-Learning and the View Projects

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Lemonade Inc

“Aimed at casual gamers of all ages, Lemonade Inc. features intelligent gameplay, colorful animated graphics and a humorous twist that will have you coming back for more! The game is now available for Pocket PC and will soon be released on Palm OS® and wireless phone platforms (Symbian, Microsoft SmartPhone 2002, and Brew).”  From HExacto

Added: 22 November 2002
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A mobile strategy game

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Fungal Infections Virtual Grand Rounds

“Fungal Infections Virtual Grand Rounds is a practical guide to the understanding and management of invasive fungal infections for healthcare professionals. Lectures by a distinguished faculty and provocative cases make this curriculum relevant to anyone engaged in the management of fungal disease.” MIT

Added: 11 November 2002
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Lectures and Case Studies

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E-Learning

“This interactive multimedia demonstration was created for Deloitte & Touche, one of the world’s largest professional services organization.” By LuxorMedia

Added: 1 October 2002
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Luxormedia describes this demo as follows:”This demo was created using sophisticated 2D and 3D technology, complex animations, stunning graphics and charts, text, video, and synchronized narration to make a compelling and engaging presentation our LuxorMedia’s capabilities around custom courseware development.  It can provide visitors to your site with an excellent example of how multimedia used in an e-learning format can be impressive, informative, engaging, and persuading.”

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Virtual Mission Preparation: Law of Land Warfare

“This multimedia e-learning course was one of several distance learning courses developed for the U.S. Army Reserve and the National Guard Bureau.” By LuxorMedia

Added: 1 October 2002
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LuxorMedia describe this course as folllows: “The courseware incorporates all the principles of learning including motivation, retention, reinforcement, active participation, closure and assessment. It includes a compelling beginning, pre-tests, review periods, interactive exercises, frequent interaction and immediate feedback, and a final exam to maintain learner motivation and maximize the soldier’s attention throughout the training experience. The training program provides clear and relevant objectives in a problem-solving approach.  The courseware explains to each soldier why learning the information is important, contributes their military experiences to each learning situation, enables them to direct their own learning, and improves their confidence and ability to handle real mission-related problems.

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Virtual Mission Preparation: Interactive Exercises

“These interactive learning games were developed for the U.S. Army Reserve and the National Guard Bureau.” By LuxorMedia

Added: 2 October 2002
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“Each interactive learning game reinforces a learning chuck from a series of distance learning programs developed for the U.S. Army Reserve and the National Guard Bureau.  Each game provides the soldier with clear instructions, frequent interaction and immediate feedback in a problem solving format, thereby maximizing the soldier’s attention throughout the training experience.  These games feature complex animations, and are designed  improve the soldier’s confidence and ability to handle real mission-related problems.

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Color Calculator

“Sessions.edu has launched a first-of-its-kind series of Flash tools called ILUs. The ILUs are Interactive tools that help student and professionals in their design work. The Color Calculator is the first application in this series; it provides the user with the ability to identify color schemes or harmonies for any design project, by controlling a series of menus and tools.”

Added: 18 September 2002
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The first of a series of “advanced Flash applications that enhance your learning experience”

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Training BYTEs Demo: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

“A TrainingBYTE™ represents a new wave of training delivery that takes advantage of the best features of the Internet, standard e-mail systems and wireless communications. It utilizes well-established industry standards to deliver unparalleled training effectiveness over the Internet, via email and is an exceptional tool for delivering mobile learning (m-learning) via PDA’s.”

Updated: 9 June 2002
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Training bytes are small chunks of learning that can be delivered to different devices - a powerful solution. 

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Instant Advice

“Instant Advice® is like having an expert advisor available anytime and anywhere. Instant Advice contains over 500 brief, single subject video clips that give employees quick answers to everyday workplace challenges such as conducting workplace reviews, planning a successful meeting, or providing feedback to employees-all delivered in 3 minutes or less, and by the same business experts used in Ninth House courses.”

Added: 9 June 2002
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Jedlet Demos

“JEDlets are concentrated, interactive nuggets of knowledge: the ultimate quick study for the specialized demands of the new millennium.”

Added: 7 June 2002
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People don’t have time to wade through hours of course material - here are two clever JEDlets for you to testdrive

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PharmiWeb

“PharmiWeb provides powerful e-learning solutions for both individuals and corporates in the life sciences sector.”

Added: 25 May 2002
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Just one part of the major PharmaWeb site - “the one stop place for the life sciences/healthcare community”

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Mobile Samples

“The following samples were created completely with Lectora Publisher for Palm OS or Pocket PC.”

Added: 12 May 2002
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These samples also include tests and collect the results.

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Connected University

“Connected University is an online professional development community, providing educators with courses, learning resources, just-in-time support, and a convenient way to interact with your peers nationwide as you work to integrate technology and improve student learning in your classroom.”

Added: 10 May 2002
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From Classroom Connect

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Licensing Law Induction Online course

 

Added: 30 April 2002
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Select “View full screen” for max viewing

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Food Safety Induction Online course

 

Added: 20 April 2002
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Select “View full screen” for max viewing

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Leadership in Action Simulator

“Imagine that you lead a small development team responsible for creating a pocket-sized, high-resolution digital camera. You need to make sure that your team has completed a high-quality camera design within six months, but if you get it done sooner, that’s even better.” From Forio

Added: 2 March 2002
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A good example of business simulation

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Macromedia Education and Training Showcase

 

Added: 23 January 2002
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A number of tutorials and other learning experiences created with Macromedia products

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US Coast Guard Learning Portal

“This portal is designed to provide easy access to all types of available training, educational benefits and support for training for all CG Personnel, to include Active Duty, Reserve, Civilian and Auxiliary.”

Added: 18 January 2002
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Links to training of all types

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TAPPED IN

“TAPPED IN™ is the online workplace of an international community of education professionals. K-12 teachers and librarians, professional development staff, teacher education faculty and students, and researchers engage in professional development programs and informal collaborative activities with colleagues.”

Added: 26 December 2001
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An online community for K12 teachers

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Teaching Evolution

This online course is intended to deepen your own understanding of evolution with extensive content-rich materials, interactive exercises, primary source readings and in depth exploration of scientific concepts. To bring it back to your classroom, it is linked to National Science Standards and enlarged with applications to classroom teaching. PBS

Added: 26 December 2001
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A simple and effective course based around the constructivist theory of learning

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UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) Electronic Platform for Learning

“Self-directed learning and sharing of knowledge is at the heart of this environment. The result, continuous learning, is a win-win for everybody. It benefits yourself, your colleagues, and UNDP. Each of the over 500 topics or categories in “el-Tree” is described and linked to a specific Learning Resources Matrix which offers a multiplicity of resource links from books to on-line courses to coaching. With many of these resources literally at your fingertips, your learning adventure is about to begin….. Enjoy.”

Added: 4 December 2001
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el-tree is an intriguing and clever approach to online learning

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Docent University

“Docent University (DU) is a division of Docent(TM) that offers individual training, courses and certificate programs to Docent employees, partners and customers. With a range of content and a variety of delivery formats, DU provides an easy way to maximize your Return on Investment from enterprise learning solutions.”

Added: 2 December 2001
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A series of certified curriculum tracks are available for Sales, Marketing, Course Developers, Learning Management System (LMS) Programmers, Account Managers, Technical Sales and Technical Support

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m-Lectures

“The IBM Web Lecture Service already gives you the possibility to create your presentation once and distribute it via various channels such as the internet, download and play, and CD-ROM to your customers, business partners and employees … Our first m(obile)-learning technology has been implemented on the Compaq iPAQ as this is one of the current devices that meets the Web Lecture Services requirements.”

Added: 10 November 2001
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Make sure you click the link “emulated iPAQ with web lecture” to see an example of delivering a lecture on a Pocket PC 

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techtionary

“A visual animated technical dictionary.  techtionary is useful for product documentation, product training and channel training.”

Added: 12 October 2001
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Produced by Cross Market Management

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Introduction to e-government

An example section of this e-course from IPF. 

Added: 7 October 2001
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An example from the Institute of Public Finance Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of CiPFA Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy)

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BooksOne

Example of a “performance support” (browser-based) system and HTML help system on how to set up an enterprise software product called “BooksOne” for a college bookstore.  Quire Systems

Added: 5 October 2001
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These examples show how performance support and online help are important e-learning tools 

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Macromedia University

“Whether you’re a novice or a seasoned developer, Macromedia University is a convenient, effective and affordable way to learn Macromedia products. Our online training center gives you access to three libraries full of engaging, interactive course content, assessment features and additional resources to maximize your Web skills.”

Added: 22 August 2001
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Macromedia’s training service for its customers

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eArmyU.com

“Revolutionising education, AUAO (Army University Access Online) offers servicemembers anytime, anywhere learning. AUAO provides access to quality education for enlisted soldiers across the globe, helping them further their professional and personal goals and providing the Army with top preparation for its forces”

Added: 1 August 2001
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The army’s approach to learning

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Navy e-learning

This is an official Navy e-learning website. “This site provides training anytime, anywhere in the world to all Department of the Navy personnel.”

Added: 30 July  2001
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Catalogue, personalisation, support etc for navy e-learning

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IChemE learning portal

“The learning portal is the online store of the Institution of Chemical Engineers. Here you can buy books, training packages, courses, e-learning, journals and conferences. This site gives you continuous access to products from IChemE (and reputable third parties) that can cater for your training and educational needs whenever and wherever they arise.”

Added: 30 July 2001
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Nortel Networks Innovatia

“Welcome to the Nortel Networks blended online learning environment. As Nortel Networks Premier Education Partner, Innovatia has created an interactive learning environment that puts you in the driver’s seat. It’s a flexible learning system that’s as individual as you are. Go at your own speed. Learn as much as you need at your convenience. Get the help you need when you need it. Everything’s at your fingertips”

Added: 30 July 2001
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Sexual Harassment Prevention Certifier

” … is a web-based certification tool designed to train and certify ALL of an organization’s employees and supervisors on sexual harassment law and company policy, and to provide a strong defense against liability.  The learning approach is games2train.com’s own fun, game-based learning methodology. Users can learn and certify by playing one of 8 games (Solitaire, Arcade, Millionaire-like, Jeopardy-like, etc.), or no game at all. From games2learn

Added: 2001
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i-Coach

“i-Coach® is Imparta’s web-enabled learning and task-support system. The system includes animated tutorials covering all the key topics in business unit strategy.”

Added:  2001
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School e-Learning Showcase

This page provides links to some general resources on e-learning to help you understand what it is and its potential in education and training.

Articles in date order, most recent first.

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Site3E eLearning, eInfo, eMobile

“A FREE middle school book is used with the TechnologyLand E-learning unit. Site3E applies math, science, and literature to optimize learning through advanced technology. Pupils work independently through comprehensive E-learning units.”

Added: 12 July 2007
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A mobile portal designed for use with Smartphones and wireless cellular Internet connections.

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Food Stories

“An interactive learning resource which features first-hand descriptions of food customs from the 1920s to the present day to reveal the revolutionary changes that have taken place in the production and consumption of food over the last century. ”

Added: 6 June 2007
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A new resource from the British Library

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LessonSense

“Free lesson plans, crafts, ideas, worksheets and downloadable materials for kindergarten and elementary school teachers”

Added: 6 June 2007
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A useful site created by a pre-school teacher

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Educational Games for Young Children

“Printable, educational games for preschool-age children.”

Added: 10 April 2007
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ARKive - Images of Life on Earth

“ARKive is the world’s centralised library of films and photographs of U.K. and the world’s endangered species – freely accessible to all online for private research and internal educational purposes.  Hailed as the digital Noah’s Ark, it has won numerous education and communication awards since its launch by Sir David Attenborough in 2003.”

Added: 21 November 2006
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The main ARKive website is designed for a variety of users (11 years old and upwards

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Learning vocabulary can be fun

“Six flash based games to improve student’s English vocabulary. The games include Hangman, Word search, Match Game, The Vocabulary Quiz, Crossword Puzzles.”

Added: 3 October 2006
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Jacob Richman, the author says “It has been my goal to create a vocabulary oriented site that would be educational, fun, simple to use and friendly.”

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Antonine Education

“The site offers tutorials in Physics (GCSE, AS, and A2), Electronics (AS) and ICT (AS and A2).  As well as text, there are questions the students can attempt, then look up a model answer.  At the end of each topic there are interactive quizzes.  There are also PowerPoint presentations.  Although the resources are for AQA syllabuses, students studying other syllabuses also find the site helpful.  Resources are available for teachers for a small donation.”

Added: 15 August 2006
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Produced by James Irvine from the UK

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Mingoville

“The Mingoville English language course is the world’s most comprehensive online program for kids of all ages, who need English as a second language. Mingoville puts the children in the driving seat as they listen, talk, draw, play, record or publish their way into the world of English language.”

Added: 18 July 2006
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“Mingoville is particularly suited for learning English as a second language (ESL).

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Maths is fun

“Keep your students entertained while they learn mathematics.”

Added: 26 June 2006
Reviewer’s Note:
There is material here for every year of school

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Adam’s E-Learning Materials

“A list of various e-learning materials: Kids: A Build-a-Sheep game Save-the-eggs game (also for Basic skills, EFL) Paint-a-house activity (also for Basic Skills, EFL) Teenagers/Adults: Drag-and-drop, match the pairs (EFL, I/O output codes) EFL, reading quizzes, listening quiz Basic computing - introduction; keyboard & mouse skills. Flash/ActionScript Beginner’s to Intermediate”

Added: 26 June 2006
Reviewer’s Note:
Practically all these materials were created with Flash 5 and Flash MX

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learnaboutcoal.org

“teaching kids about coal”

Added: 27 March 2006
Reviewer’s Note:
From ABEC, a national, non-profit organisation designed to promote a dialogue with community leaders across the US on issues involving America’s growing demand for electricity

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mathtutor

“Never understood Pythagoras’s Theorem? Baffled by sines and cosines? Now you can get better grades (and impress your friends) by learning on your video iPod!”

Added: 20 March 2006
Reviewer’s Note:
mathtutor is also available on DVD

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Earthworks

“Earthworks is a new interactive game aimed at children to encourage them to be more aware of sustainability issues and the environment. The game was commissioned by Pembrokeshire Coast National Park and funded by the EDF.”

Added: 31 January 2006
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The site was designed and built by Mizu Ltd, a new media company based in Bath in the UK

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BBC Jam

“BBC Jam, the BBC’s broadband learning service for 5 to 16 year olds, has gone live. The free service is a combination of curriculum-based activities, video games, audio and animation.”

Added: 30 January 2006
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The site is designed as a mix of formal curriculum-based resources and informal learning.

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Discover Isle of Wight History

“Local history is a very popular subject for private study and has proven to be a successful hook to engage groups of adults and families in learning.”

Added: 11 October 2005
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“The wealth of materials available offers the opportunity to learn about the Island and its history, your family, and their role in that history.” 

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Andersen Fairy Tales

“classic folk stories and fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen. Web-published children’s books with Flash animation and narration. Featuring cartoons, e-learning, biography of Hans Christian Andersen, and links to the fairy tales.”

Added: 4 October 2005
Reviewer’s Note:
Available in French and English

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The Weather Classroom

“The experts at The Weather Channel have created weatherclassroom.com as a resource for educators, students and parents. Weatherclassroom.com offers a comprehensive collection of weather-related content, including lesson plans for educators, an interactive weather forecast for students, and a weather word glossary and storm encyclopedia for parents.”

Added: 29 September 2005
Reviewer’s Note:
New content and features are added all of the time

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Demgames

“Demgames forms part of the Office of the UK Deputy Prime Minister’s Local e-Democracy National Project, exploring how digital technology can be used to engage people in democratic processes.”

Added: 9 August 2005
Reviewer’s Note:
The three games on the Demgames site – Captain Campaign, Councillor Quest II and Money Manager – aim to inform young people about key aspects of the UK political process in a fun way.

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Longton High City Learning Centre

 

Added: 22 July 2005
Reviewer’s Note:
Longton High City Learning Centre are pioneering innovative teaching strategies using ICT in Education

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Packetville

“A Web portal rich with interactive and educational content to introduce young students to the marvels of the Internet as it relates to math, science, real-world solutions, education and careers. Students join characters Peter and Penny Packet as they “jump into the Internet” and participate in a variety of fun activities to explore technology and its important role in society.”

Added: 28 June 2005
Reviewer’s Note:
Packetville also includes valuable resources for parents, education administrators, instructors and guidance counselors, including teaching aids and lesson plans, mapped to International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) standards.

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Typeonline

“Typeonline offers a structured course to motivated individuals looking to develop their keyboard skills and a free resource to complement supervised keyboarding education in schools.”

Added: 18 June 2005
Reviewer’s Note:
Typeonline was designed and implemented by Dave Bartlett, a web developer based in Hampshire

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Quiz Tree

“Dozens of interactive quizzes on topics such as Elementary Math, Fractions, Spanish, Geography, SAT Verbal and Spelling.”

Added: 26 May 2005
Reviewer’s Note:
Free quizzes.  Also free Quiz-buddy which includes 25 quizzes

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brightjournals

“An educational e-mentoring site, created by the charity, Brightside Trust, and funded by Aimhigher. Bright Journals is a secure e-mentoring system using the webblog model, where undergraduates act as role models for school students. Bright Journals also has a news area and provides a wide range of support and information for school students and undergraduates interested in careers in healthcare.”

Added: 13 April 2005
Reviewer’s Note:
Also contains a library of resources about careers in healthcare

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The Chemcollective

“The Chemistry Collective is a collection of virtual labs, scenario-based learning activities, and concepts tests which can be incorporated into a variety of teaching approaches as pre-labs, alternatives to textbook homework, and in-class activities for individuals or teams.”

Added: 6 April 2005
Reviewer’s Note:
“It is organized by a group of faculty and staff at Carnegie Mellon University for college and high school teachers who are interested in using, assessing, and/or creating engaging online activities for chemistry education.”

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BSI Education

“What would it be like if light bulbs didn’t have sizes? Standards make our lives easier, safer and healthier. This website provides comprehensive background information, lesson plans, case studies and testing sheets for a range of topics for 7-19 year olds.”

Added: 6 April 2005
Reviewer’s Note:
Launched by the British Standards Institution (BSI), and supported by the National Standardization Strategic Framework (NSSF).

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Fire safety for schools

“This interactive CD developed in conjunction with North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service has been developed to teach children about the dangers of fire. The CD uses colourful graphics and quizes to engage the children in the learning process. The program meets the requirement of key stage 1.”

Added: 5 March 2005
Reviewer’s Note:
Website shows a “snapshot of the program”.

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Letter P.A.L.S.

“Personalised Adventure Letter Series.  K-2 School to home Reading program. Consists of 24 Online weekly newsletters, each letter is 3 pages in length, each letter is personalised, each letter contains paws for reading comprehension questions.”

Added: 3 March 2005
Reviewer’s Note:
Free for teachers and parents

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Virtual-Workspace

The Virtual-Workspace is a new, dynamic website providing students with their own private web space and access to over 3000 interactive digital learning materials. This virtual learning environment encourages students to manage their coursework, homework, research, career plans and even daily diaries. They can communicate with each other and their teachers through the Virtual-Workspace; homework and coursework can be submitted to teachers for marking, and be returned by the teacher to the learner’s work area.

Added: 1 March 2005
Reviewer’s Note:
“The solution supports the push towards a personalised learning experience that puts the student in control, by matching individual learning profiles to tailored information. Teachers can provide online guidance and use time-saving technologies such as automated assessments.”

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Time Pirates Adventure

“Take an interactive journey through the port of London from Roman times to the present day. Complete tasks and follow the clues along the way.”

Added: 15 February 2005
Reviewer’s Note:
Atticmedia (http://www.atticmedia.com/) developed this site for the National Maritime Museum.  The target age group is 9 - 11 year olds,  and in it they learn about the history of the River Thames by helping to defeat an evil genius who wants to rule the future by stealing history!

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Journey through a jet engine

“Discover fascinating facts about the amazing strength, reliability and performance of the Rolls-Royce engines used to give power on land, sea and air.”

Added: 27 January 2005
Reviewer’s Note:
A Flash animation from Rolls Royce Information for Schools website

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Doc Brown’s Chemistry Clinic

Examples of content: KS3 CHEMISTRY: A set of additional word-fills and crossword puzzles designed around the QCA guidelines, with links to answers KS3 CHEMISTRY: A set of additional word-fills and crossword puzzles designed around the QCA guidelines, with links to answers; A comprehensive set of 25 revision notes pages for all GCSE Chemistry AND additional notes on Earth Science and Radioactivity to cover most points in most GCSE science/chemistry syllabuses; Very comprehensive notes and quizzes on the structure and naming of organic molecules

Updated: 26 January 2005
Reviewer’s Note:
This site has been active for many years and provides some useful Chemistry resources for schools

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Innoken

“Innoken presents educational content in a highly interesting manner by using InnoLearn® - an innovative method of imparting learning. This method combines story-telling (one of the oldest forms of entertainment) and learning with cutting-edge programming to create highly interactive content that enhances assimilation and retention.”

Added: 22 November 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
“A few moments spent here will linger on, refreshing you all day long.”

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Learning Curve

“Learning Curve is a free online teaching and learning resource, following the History National Curriculum from Key Stages 2 to 5: Sources: see documents, photos and film from the National Archives; History: unlock the meaning of these records; Education: enjoy games and activities for thinking and learning about our past.”

Updated: 20 October 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
Find out what people thought, said and did at the time of some of the most interesting events in history.

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Amazing space

“provides educators and developers access to all the teaching materials available at Amazing Space. This index includes an ‘Overview’ with each resource.”

Added: 18 October 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
Topics include black holes, comets, electromagnetic spectrum/light and color, galaxies, gravity, etc

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National Security Agency/Central Security Service Kids and Youth webpage

“For a historic look at NSA …or to discover important dates in cryptology. If you are interested in finding out what a Cryptologist does, try to make your own codes and break some of our codes ”

Added: 5 October 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
“As you go thru the web site, Crypto Cat will keep a watchful eye on you as you make and break our codes.”

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Maths TV Problem Solving Videos

“Combines step by step video instruction with interactive practice to help upper elementary and middle school students learn how to solve challenging word problems.”

Added: 1 October 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
Each week Infinity Quick (IQ) introduces a new maths problem

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Academy123

“Our method of tutoring involves having a streaming whiteboard as well as the voice of a licensed teacher guide the child through the actual problems presented in their Algebra text books. We do such by providing each licensed teacher with a tablet PC and specially designed software that records not only their voice and instructions, but a “whiteboard” from the tablet pc and turns it into a macromedia flash show.”

Added: 27 September 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
“The student must sit through the entire lecture, and interact with the program, in order to get the answers as there are no fast forwarding mechanisms or easy ways of getting the answer. We don’t just provide the answer, but walk the child through learning the problems and increasing their math comprehension.”

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Juniors.net

“Fun educational resource for children aged 7 - 11. Hundreds of activities for English, Maths and Science, plus reports, quizzes, games, tracking, animated characters and more!!”

Added: 22 August 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
“The definitive key stage 2 e-learning resource”

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Grid Cub

“GridClub is designed for children between the ages of 7 to 11 with supporting information for parents and teachers. It is provided by Channel Four Television Corporation (Channel 4), in conjunction with Intuitive Media Ltd (Intuitive Media), and is funded by the Department for Education and Skills in England, (DfES), The Scottish Executive Education Department (SEED) and the Northern Ireland Network for Education (NINE).

Added: 26 July 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
“GridClub offers a wide variety of professionally mediated clubs and interest groups. GridClub also offers a Website comprising interactive resources related to the English and Northern Irish National Curriculum at Key Stage 2 and the Scottish National Guidelines at Levels B - E.2

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Unlocking the archives

The new Unlocking the Archives education site of the Royal Geographical Society provides free learning resources for secondary schools. Explore the resources on Antarctica - view the galleries or try the online quiz. Or choose from Everest or Images of Empire. The Society holds one of the most exciting collections in the world with photographs, maps, books, objects and documents which they are working to make accessible through this site.

Added: 28 June 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
The Teachers Area explains how to use the resources in the KS 3 and 4 curriculum

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Charlie’s World

“This is a Singapore-based children’s elearning portal. The content has been organized in a manner that is suitable for classroom usage. Indexes hundreds of content, topic-by-topic for easy access, recommended for ages 7-12.”

Added: 23 June 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
Users can search anything from PowerPoint slides, PDF docs to Flash movies and animations.

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Big sums

“These two program are aimed at using with projectors and whole class teaching. They can however be used with small groups around a standard monitor. The screens start with the maximum numbers set to 10 but this can be altered by the user. The main screen allows the user to hide or show the first, second or answer digits. Numbers can also be changed whilst they are hidden.”

Added: 23 June 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
Simple but effective

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AFT Summer Learning Calendar

This summer we’ll serve up tasty recipes, science-in-the-kitchen projects and hands-on activities related to everybody’s favorite subject…food.”

Added: 20 June 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
“The American Federation of Teachers offers entertaining ways to keep your child learning all summer with different activities every week

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Bruno’s Chess problem of the day

“Looking for logic puzzles, free chess strategies or tactics? Come on, and try to solve free online chess games.”

Added: 15 June 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
A solution to the problem will be made available the next day

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Academic Chess

“Academic Chess is a free online chess school where your child can master the game of chess or play online against other children.”

Added: 20 May 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
“We teach chess rules and chess strategies in a way kids will not soon forget.”

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Abiator’s Active Classroom Mathematics Index

 

Added: 19 May 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
Lots of interactive maths activities

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Parents Online

“We want parents to discover how easy it is to get involved with their child’s learning AND how they can support them in their education.”

Added: 18 May 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
Examples of e-learning for all ages

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Stalking the mysterious microbe

“Microbes post a mystery to many.  But microbiologist Sam Sleuth is hot on their trail. Click on to find out more about the world of microbes from your own hands to the mighty Himalayas, landfills to oil spills, common colds to uncommon cures, under microscopes and in the news.”

Added: 6 May 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
From the American Society for Microbiology

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Mission : F3 - Fish for facts

“The databanks in The Deep Submersible have become corrupted. It has information about sea creatures but has forgotten which are which. We need your help to sort things out!”

Added: 8 April 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
A learning game from The Deep, an environmental and educational charity dedicated to understanding and protecting the world’s oceans.

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WeatherBug Achieve

“AWS Convergence Technologies provides engaging weather information and educational tools to schools and colleges, including an innovative set of online lesson plans and software called WeatherBug Achieve”

Added: 6 April 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
WeatherBug provides live weather on your desktop (http://www.weatherbug.com/)

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Eternal Egypt

“Welcome to Eternal Egypt, which brings to light over five thousand years of Egyptian civilization. Eternal Egypt is a living record of a land rich in art and history, people and places, myths and religions. The stories of Eternal Egypt are told using the latest interactive technologies, high-resolution imagery, animations, virtual environments, remote cameras, three-dimensional models and more.”

Added: 9 March 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
The guided tour is a quick way to experience the best that the site has to offer. You can also begin with one of the cultural highlights below, or make

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ExploreLearning

“experience Maths and Science with Gizmos”

Added: 4 March 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
Limit one launch per day or login

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Leonardo’s Workshop

“Dr. N. Ventor, scientist-extraordinaire and inventor of a time machine, is also a big fan of Leonardo da Vinci. To thank you and your friend Carmine Chameleon for testing her time machine, she is showing you her collection of Leonardo’s works.”

Added: 4 March 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
An ArtEdventure

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Winged Sandals

“Take the tour with Hermes the messenger god, through a magical place filled with awesome gods, daring heroes and fabulous monsters … Targeted primarily at 6-12 year olds.

Added: 3 March 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
AIMIA Winner for Best eLearning and Best of the Web Awards 2003

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MapZone

“is a cool place to learn about maps - for free” Ordnance Survey

Added: 1March 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
A “bright and lively website that aims to teach children between 7 and 16, mapping skills in a fun way”.

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NuMaths - made easy

“Curriculum based (Key Stages 1 & 2) interactive, internet delivered maths program. Fun, interesting and sequential learning.”

Added: 16 February 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
Take a look at the large number of engaging demonstrations 

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Ancient China

“Welcome to the British Museum’s web site on ancient China. These ‘Staff Room’ pages have been developed to help teachers get the most out of the web site for themselves and for their class. It is predominantly aimed at schoolchildren aged 9 - 11 and their teachers but we hope that other groups may find it useful too.”

Added: 10 February 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
5 sections on Crafts & Artisans, Geography, Time, Tombs & Ancestors, and Writing

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SRA TechKnowledge

“SRA TechKnowledge is a 100% interactive program for grades PreK through 6 that develops computer and technology literacy.” 

Added: 29 January 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
A finalist in the SXSW awards in the Educational resources section

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the blobz guide to electric circuits

“An interactive learning tool for Key Stage 2 Science (Units 4F and 6G)”  developed by Andy Thelwell

Added: 29 January 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
A finalist in the SXSW awards in the Educational resources section

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Digital Schools

“Digital Imaging in Schools is an exciting, innovative, cutting-edge project in the use of digital media technology in schools.” National Museum of Photography, Film and Television

Added: 15 December 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
“Learn more about the project and the outcomes and findings generated. Visit the Image Gallery and watch the Video Diaries made by teachers.”

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PolarHusky.com

“An Educational Exploration of Nunavut. Setting out to document arctic climate change we will dogsled the territory of Nunavut, meeting Inuit Elders and students, to explore traditional ecological knowledge in the remote communities visited along the trail while gathering scientific data daily from the field for NASA and Environment Canada.”

Added: 2 December 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
“Learn how real time learning adventures pulled by powerful Polar Huskies create a unique standard aligned curriculum for the classroom.”

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Probabilistic Learning Activities Network

 

Added: 21 November 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
Resources to enhance the teaching of probability 

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The Wright brothers: the invention of the aerial age

“On December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the Wright Flyer became the first powered, heavier-than-air machine to achieve controlled, sustained flight with a pilot aboard.  December 2003 will mark the 100th Anniversary of this historic and groundbreaking achievement. Learn how two small town businessmen invented a technology that would define the 20th century.” Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

Added: 17 November 2003
Reviewer’s Note:

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History Tutor

“eLearning mentors make learning more memorable and engaging.  Take our interactive quiz and learn from one of history’s greatest playwrights.

Added: 13 November 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
This demo test makes use of avatar technology from DA Group

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A study of Sligo’s coastline

“‘From Skerrydoo to Carrickfadda, a Study of Sligo’s Coastline’ is a schools heritage and ICT project, which seeks to promote high levels of awareness and understanding of seashore heritage amongst participants.”

Added: 1 November 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
Winner of eSchola 2003

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Jazz for young people curriculum online

“where you can learn about the history of jazz and its artists through recordings, readings, photographs, video and fun activities.”  Produced by Jazz at Lincoln Center

Added: 5 October 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
There is also a Tips for teachers feature for each lesson

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Geometry step-by-step from the land of the Incas

“It provides an eclectic mix of sound, science, and Incan history intended to interest students in Euclidean geometry. The site includes geometry problems, quizzes, quotations, scientific speculation, and more.”

Added: 20 September 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
Created by Antonio Gutierrez

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The Romans

“This site is designed for Key Stage 2 pupils and is aligned to the BBC schools Programmes.”

Added: 25 August 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
Info, activities, resources, glossary, etc

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Justice Learning

“Justice Learning is an innovative, issue-based approach for engaging high school students in informed political discourse. The web site uses audio from the Justice Talking radio show and articles from The New York Times to teach students about reasoned debate and the often-conflicting values inherent in our democracy. The web site includes articles, editorials and oral debate from the nation’s finest journalists and advocates. All of the material is supported by age-appropriate summaries and additional links. In addition, for each covered issue, the site includes curricular material from The New York Times Learning Network for high school teachers and detailed information about how each of the institutions of democracy (the courts, the Congress, the presidency, the press and the schools) affect the issue.”

Added: 17 August 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
“Much of the traditional civics curricula begin with an historical perspective and move forward. The lessons start from a point distant from students’ lives. Justice Learning reverses traditional methods by starting with current issues that directly affect their lives. The curricula engage them early with a multimedia set of online materials and then relate it to the historical context that generated it. In doing so, the project incorporates into its methodology the new reality of where students turn for information and how they learn.”

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Design Technology Department

“The Design Technology Department has been created in order to provide free educational materials for schools and colleges. The site is continually growing and will eventually offer teachers and pupils materials for all of the Key Stages.”

Added: 3 August 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
Lots of design technology resources

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MathsNet

 

Added: 27 July 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
“Features include: Interactive, Articles, QuizBank, Magic Grid, MathsNet Art, Puzzles and Maths Links. The website also contains reviews of software and books for mathematicians.”

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Learn Things: Interactive Lessons

“Here are some sections of lessons developed by learn things South Africa to give you a taste of how we bring learning to life by engaging the user on a path of discovery.”

Added: 25 July 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
Take a look at the Worksheets as well

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C4 Modern Languages

“This website is based on 2 Channel 4 television programmes, Chez Mimi and Henning’s Haus. The website complements the programmes and enhances language learning in a fun way. Through the use of games, users will have an interactive experience in French or German. Aimed at upper primary and early secondary, key themes include topics such as food, colours and family.”

Added: 16 July 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
Another site produced by Learning and Teaching Scotland

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Storybook Web

“This exciting online resource contains a collection of activities for children aged 5-8 years. The site is based on popular children’s stories and supports early literacy and numeracy skills.”

Added: 16 July 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
Produced by Learning and Teaching Scotland

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Climate change in Scotland

“This interactive website is aimed at young people aged between 9 and 14 years. The website raises awareness of climate change and how its effects. The website contains a virtual community with a number of interactive games and a resource area providing detailed information on climate change issues. These areas are designed to engage children and teachers in activities that show how everyday actions can make a difference to our environment.”

Added: 16 July 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
This site has been produced on behalf of the Scottish Executive by Learning and Teaching Scotland.

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Digital Palette

“The main purpose of this site is to inspire, encourage and support teachers who are experimenting with computers in Art and Design”

Added: 4 July 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
Very colourful and visual as you would expect.

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10ticks

“Offering National Curriculum compliant maths worksheets for teachers, parents and students.  Comprehensive maths support for students with helps, games and activities.”

Added: 4 July 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
Source of online activities for maths classrooms

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smART Kids

“smART Kids helps you see art in new ways.  Look at different artworks, learn the language of art, explore art materials and unravel clues about the history of selected artworks.”The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago

Added: 19 June 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
Highly interactive and engaging

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Shakespeare: subject to change

“Let Shakespeare show you the brain-charging learning power of broadband technology”

Added: 15 May 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
“the first installment in Cable in the Classroom’s Broadband Demonstration Project. The project will feature a series of lively, appealing learning experiences that show how broadband technology–with its capacity to deliver video, audio, excellent interactivity, design, and content–can support active, meaningful and memorable learning.”

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artyfacts: Leonardo da Vinci

“Even though he did not finish many of his paintings, you could not call Leonardo DA Vinci lazy. In his lifetime, he worked as an artist, scientist, architect and inventor. He painted the world’s most famous painting and designed flying machines hundreds of years before anyone got round to building them. This BBC website on Leonardo DA Vinci provides a detailed biography with examples of his paintings”

Added: 10 May 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
Another excellent resource from the BBC (Schools) website

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Twelfth Night Revision

“This website provides basic overviews of each act of Twelfth Night. There are also quizzes on each act, the plot and individual characters. The website also features a collection of interactive games and exercises on Twelfth Night including Shakespeare’s Accident (Act III, Scene 1), Shakespeare Shootout, Shakespeare Hoop Shoot, Walk the Plank and Fling the Teacher.”

Added: 10 May 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
Wish this had been around when I was studying Twelfth Night!

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CREATE: The Centre for Research, Education and Training in Energy

“a not for profit education organisation promoting energy efficiency and sustainable development”

Added: 24 April 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
There are resources to download, including teaching energy as part of the geography curriculum and a guide to energy-related topics in the National Curriculum.

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Bridge to classroom

“Designing and building a bridge to withstand earthquakes is no easy challenge. Explore the science, technology and people involved in the bridge with these interactive learning modules and simulations!”

Added: 24 April 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
Bridge to Classroom is designed for middle school

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Ancient India

“This website from the British Museum explores the people, culture, beliefs and history of ancient India using animations, 3D models and objects from the British Museum’s collection. It is designed for primary school teachers and pupils, and includes online activities, background information and worksheets.”

Added: 17 April 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
“predominantly aimed at upper Key Stage 2 schoolchildren and their teachers”

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Diduknow

“Did U Know has been developed by National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside.. The website features interactive pages about all manner of topics - from portraits to Liverpool docks, from sunbeams to local history. The idea is that anyone can try out the website’s games, exercise their brain cells and have fun all at the same time!”

Added: 28 March 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
Simple language and simple explanations

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Storytelling classroom

“David James, teacher of English/Storyteller is promoting the use of Storytelling as a teaching resource. Free lesson plans and supporting resources.”

Added: 22 March 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
Storytelling in education

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Ben’s Guide to US Government for Kids

“This site provides learning tools for K-12 students, parents, and teachers. These resources will teach how our government works, the use of the primary source materials of GPO Access, and how one can use GPO Access to carry out their civic responsibilities. And, just as GPO Access provides locator services to U.S. Government sites, Ben’s Guide provides a similar service to U.S. Government Web sites developed for kids.”

Added: 7 March 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
Has won a number of awards

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Tales on the Lego Express

“Choose your own path with Tales on the LEGO Express, where the story depends on you! As you go through the story, you will be given different options. To guide the story, click on your choice. What happens in the story is all up to you!”

Added: 27 February 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
One of the the SXSW Website Competition Finalists for 2003 (Animation/Cartoon)

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The Official Young Astronaut Programme

“A hands-on, multimedia, educational programme offering print curriculum, fun activities, live television, an interactive CD, and an online community for kids, parents, and educators.”

Added: 27 February 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
“Mission Science - a five-unit printed science education curriculum for kindergarten through 9th grade through which children explore what’s in space, how we get there, how we live there, and what we do while we’re there.”

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FunBrain

 

Added: 27 February 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
A collection of online educational games

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Nick’s Mathematical Puzzles

“The puzzles presented here are selected for the deceptive simplicity of their statement, or the elegance of their solution.  They range over geometry, probability, number theory, algebra, calculus, and logic.  All require a certain ingenuity, but only pre-college math.  Some puzzles are original.”

Added: 27 February 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
Fun if you like maths!

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Consumer Jungle

“Consumer Jungle is a new web-based program that helps turn high school students into savvy consumers without putting them to sleep. There’s a camp for everyone. Students will discover a treasure trove of games, and teachers will find free classroom materials. There’s even something for parents - a section filled with tips on how to help the young adults in their lives find their way safely through the real world. It’s just a click away. Find your camp, and start exploring!”

Added: 3 February 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
Consumer Jungle is sponsored by the Young Adult Consumer Education Trust (YACET).

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Interactive History Games

“These are all games created by SchoolHistory.co.uk - use your history skills to win the game - force the teacher to walk the plank or fling them away.  Score a goal past a famous goalie, shoot a fairground duck or try to stop Henry VIII’s execution!”

Added: 30 January 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
A nice set of learning games for history

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Explore Parliament

“This site is hosted by the Parliamentary Education Unit and has two main sections. Junior Parliament is designed to introduce primary pupils to some of the history, traditions and structure of Parliament. Explore Parliament, for secondary pupils, seeks to encourage understanding of and participation in the political process.”

Added: 17 January 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
Hosted by the Parliamentary Education Unit

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MAGIC (Media Activities and Good Ideas for Children)

“The MAGIC website is UNICEF’s (United Nations Children’s Fund) response to the Oslo Challenge of 1999, which called on media professionals, educators, governments, organizations, parents, children and young people themselves to recognize the enormous potential of media to make the world a better place for children.”

Added: 11 January 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
“This website showcases media projects by, with and for children, and provides information for those wishing to take up the Oslo Challenge.”

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PictureHistory

“The primary source for history online”

Added: 10 January 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
“Find the pictures you need in this easy to use digital library of high quality images and footage illustrating more than 200 years of American history

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Tryscience

“TryScience.org is your gateway to experience the excitement of contemporary science and technology through on and offline interactivity with science and technology centers worldwide. Science is exciting, and it’s for everyone! That’s why TryScience and over 400 science centers worldwide invite you to investigate, discover, and try science yourself.”

Added: 11 December 2002
Reviewer’s Note:
Adventures, experiments, field trips, webcams, etc

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Education using PowerPoint

“This site has been designed for use by teachers and students. It aims to make high quality science education slideshows freely available to teachers (as a classroom tool) and students (as a revision tool.”

Added: 28 November 2002
Reviewer’s Note:
“High quality PowerPoint slideshows for GCSE educators”

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AccessArt

“is an evolving collection of online workshops and arts educational activities for teachers and students of all ages.”

Added: 28 November 2002
Reviewer’s Note:
Won the National Grid for Learning, Becta/The Guardian UK Education Web Site Award 2002

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Luminarium

 

Added: 16 November 2002
Reviewer’s Note:
This website combines three sites first created in 1996 to provide a starting point for students and enthusiasts of English Literature in three areas: Medieval, Renaissance and 17th Century Literature.

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Consumer education

“Consumer education empowers us and makes us more knowledgeable about the products and services we buy and use.”

Added: 10 November 2002
Reviewer’s Note:
Learn how to become an informed and responsible consumer

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Froguts

“This site was designed to give a better understanding of frogs and other lifeforms by the use of instructional technology. Frogs is the first virtual online frog dissection.”

Added: 22 August 2002
Reviewer’s Note:
This resource was recently highlighted by Elliott Masie in his TechLearn Trends newsletter

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DNA from the beginning

“An animated primer on basics of DNA, genes and heredity.” Cold Spring Harbor Lab.

Added: 27 May 2002
Reviewer’s Note:
Targeted at the level of a bright teenager and geared towards those without a scientific background 

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Paper plate education

“Welcome to a unique genre of education materials.  Paper Plate Education is an initiative to reduce complex notions to simple paper plate explanations.  This website promotes innovative hands-on Activities that can be experienced across a range of interests, at varying degrees of complexity, and at a low price–all with common paper plates.”

Added: 10 April 2002
Reviewer’s Note:
Intriguing!

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The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein

“In this lesson students develop their skills of sourcework analysis by investigating and interpreting the details of a famous portrait by Hans Holbein, court painter to Henry VIII. The painting is rich in symbolism which refers to politics, society and religion” activehistory.co.uk

Added: 12 January 2002
Reviewer’s Note:
An historical activity for 11-13 year olds.  Other resources available from the main page

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Blood Typing

“Safe blood transfusions have saved many lives during the 20th century. This would not have been possible without the discovery of the human blood groups made by Nobel Laureate Karl Landsteiner in 1901. Before giving a blood transfusion you have to blood type each patient. Are you able to do that? If not, maybe you should read the introduction to blood typing before you start, otherwise you will put the patients’ lives in danger!”

Added: 6 December 2001
Reviewer’s Note:
Another very effective “game”, ie learning activity from the Nobel e-Museum

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The Virtual Biochemistry Lab

“The Virtual Biochemistry Laboratory Project aims to make biochemistry knowledge visible by using computers and the Internet as tools for interactive learning, and to make way for an understanding of the principles and theories behind the Nobel Prizes in chemistry …  In the laboratory environment you can move around and interact with the lab equipment in a game-like interface. You can also attend lectures and perform experiments with the support of intelligent help functions. By constantly focusing on the end user of the product, the Virtual Biochemistry Laboratory project aims to provide a stimulating and enjoyable experience where the active learning of the user is promoted.”

Added: 13 October 2001
Reviewer’s Note:
One of the many clever educational activities at the Nobel e-Museum

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Geney: Exploring genetics together

“Creatures called Zwiki have come from faraway stars to live on your handheld computer. They need your help to create a special creature that will help them go back to their home galaxy.”

Added: 12 October 2001
Reviewer’s Note:
A genetics game

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BioLogica

“BioLogica offers interactive features that foster independent inquiry and scientific reasoning.  By solving a sequence of activities, students build a body of scientific knowledge as BioLogica monitors their progress, offers helpful hints, and builds a portfolio of their work.”

Added: 12 October 2001
Reviewer’s Note:
BioLogica is a hypermodel for teaching high school genetics, developed over the last four years with support from the National Science Foundation

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eSchola Awards sites

“Learn from the experience of others! Get inspired from successful implementation of ICT in the classroom to improve the quality of learning! eSchola has selected for you, teachers and learners, the best websites showing good practice for schools from all over Europe and beyond”

Updated: 11 October 2001
Reviewer’s Note:
Some examples of best practice from Europe - 22 finalists are now online

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iKnowthat.com

“iKnowthat.com activities encourage kids to be creative and to learn by doing. In the spirit of discovery-based education, our activities are designed to provide kids with opportunities to actively explore concepts in a multi-modality scenario where they can guide their own learning experience. Throughout their explorations at iKnowthat.com, kids are exposed to educational material which they can learn and apply.”

Added: 30 August 2001
Reviewer’s Note:
For ages 2-12

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chessKIDs academy

“chessKIDS academy offers FREE online interactive lessons, quizzes and games for kids, two chess computers for you to play, and a resource center for parents and teachers of kids who play, or would like to play, chess, including a scholastic chess download pack to enable any school to run a chess club.”

Added: 30 August 2001
Reviewer’s Note:
Site includes Interactive chess lessons, quizzes, games and puzzles for kids, Play chess against the computer

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WISE - The Web-based Inquiry Science Environment

“WISE is a simple yet powerful learning environment where students examine real-world evidence and analyze current scientific controversies. Our curriculum projects are designed to meet standards and complement your current science curriculum, and your grade 5-12 students will find them exciting and engaging. A web browser is all they need to take notes, discuss theories, and organize their arguments… they can even work from home! Our Teacher Area lets you explore new projects and grade your students’ work on the Web.”

Added: 27 August 2001
Reviewer’s Note:
Everything is free

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MarcoPolo 

“MarcoPolo provides the highest quality, standards-based Internet content and professional development to K-12 teachers and students throughout the United States”

Updated: 14 November 2005
Reviewer’s Note:
Also offers guide to help teachers integrate internet content into the classroom

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Go Eddy

“Go Education plc was established to offer an indispensable learning software resource to children, parents and teachers. This, coupled with the growth of The Internet and advanced technology, has resulted in the formation of our website.”

Added: 25 August 2001
Reviewer’s Note:
Reviewers Note: Catalogue of courses, software as well as chat facilities

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Channel 4: Homework High 

 

Added: 25 August 2001
Reviewer’s Note:
A resource to help students with their homework.  It has had some interesting participants in the chat sessions too

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DigitalEssays.com

“Digitalessays.com is glad to accept and post any papers you send to us. We need your support to increase the amount of essays we have in our archive of papers. If you do send an essay please include: the subject the paper belongs to; name of the essay (if there is one); and your name/e-mail if you wish to have it included in the essay.”

Added: 30 July 2001
Reviewer’s Note:
This is one of the sites that collects and distributes student essays!

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The nine planets: a multimedia tour of the solar system

“The Nine Planets is an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our solar system. Each page has text and images, some have sounds and movies, most provide references to additional related information.” SEDS, (Students for the Exploration and Development of Space) hosted at University of Arizona Chapter 

Added: 22 July 2001
Reviewer’s Note:
A very informative site about the solar system

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downloadlearning.com 

“Download Learning teaches common knowledge - knowledge your kids should know, but often don’t. Every 10 days a title is posted for free download.”

Added: 17 July 2001
Reviewer’s Note:
The Common Knowledge titles are also useful for teachers as they complement the school curriculum

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A. Pintura Art Detective

This is termed an “educational Web Adventure”.  From EduWeb.com

Added: 2000
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Ask a Biologist

“Puzzled about a topic in biology? Need a biologist to answer your question? This is the place. Just fill out the form below to submit your question.” Arizona State University

Added: 2000
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BrainPop.com

Provides the answers to all kids’ questions.

Added: 2000
Reviewer’s Note:
Has won lots of awards and plaudits.

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Filamentality

“Filamentality is a fill-in-the-blank interactive Web site that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good Internet sites, and turning Web resources into learning activities. It helps you combine the “filaments” of the Web with a learner’s “mentality” (get it?)

Added: 2000
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Hands-on Universe

Hands-On Universe ® (HOU) is an educational program that enables students to investigate the Universe while applying tools and concepts from science, math, and technology. Using the Internet, HOU participants around the world request observations from an automated telescope, download images from a large image archive, and analyze them with the aid of user-friendly image processing software. The Lawrence Hall of Science at University of California, Berkeley, is the educational center for the HOU project.

Added: 2000
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College and University e-Learning Showcase

This page provides a showcase for a wide range of examples of online courses and other online learning solutions that have been developed in Universities and Colleges and that are visible on the Internet. Some are “traditional” course repositories of lecture notes and resources, others are more innovative online projects.

Articles in date order, most recent first.

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Tim Wang’s e-Learning Blog

from blackboard learning to online education - my eLearning journey from west to east.

Added:16 November 2007
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Booligan.com - Trade and swap textbooks for college student and other campus.

“Booligan.com is a free website for college students to trade textbooks and swap with other students from their campus. Got a book you’re finished with ADVERTISE IT Chances are, there’s a handful of students who need that very book next semester.”

Added: 27 July 2007
Reviewer’s Note:
Covers US, Canada, UK, and Australia  

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Healthcare Education & Training

“Directory of Healthcare-related education programs. Search from a list of medical specializations, campus-based/distance-learning programs, etc.”

Added: 31 May 2007
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Italian Culture on the Net

“ICoN is a Consortium of 23 Italian Universities aimed at promoting Italian language and culture all over the world through the Internet. Through its training portal ICoN offers an online Degree program in Italian language and culture for citizens abroad (Italian Degree, I level) and online Italian language courses of different levels and for different audiences. ”

Added: 04 May 2007
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E-learning for European Languages and Literatures

“The ELLEU project has designed an organizational model for the teaching of Italian Language, Literature and Culture within the European Union countries. It constitutes a university level study platform integrating e-learning with traditional methods in a Europe-wide perspective. The model can be re-used for the teaching of other languages and literatures.”

Added: 04 May 2007
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Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary

“Over 3000 terms defined. This dictionary is primarily aimed at supporting secondary and tertiary students who are studying business and commerce related subjects.”

Added: 22 November 2006
Reviewer’s Note:
The definitions of terms that have been included are most of the major subject specific words that students will come across in secondary level accounting, business studies and economics courses.

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ESP-C English for Specific Purposes-Chemistry

“ESP:C is an English language course designed to help you learn the specialised English used in chemistry and develop the language skills required by professional chemists.”

Added: 10 October 2006
Reviewer’s Note:
The project was supported by the Leonardo da Vinci programme.

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Chemicool Periodic Table

“Find Periodic Table element facts.”

Added: 27 June 2006
Reviewer’s Note:
Other chemistry resources available here

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The Virtual Anaesthesia Machine

“A transparent reality simulation.”

Added: 10 June 2006
Reviewer’s Note:
Register to access the simulation

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iLecture (aka Lectopia)

“The iLecture System (also known as Lectopia) is the leading lecture capture and delivery solution in Australia. The iLecture service is offered by the Arts Multimedia Centre and is available to all staff at the University of Western Australia.”

Added: 27 May 2006
Reviewer’s Note:
Through the iLecture System, audio and visuals from traditional face-to-face lectures are automatically recorded and processed into a variety of streaming media formats. Students can access the recordings 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

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webGeology

“Flashed teaching resources in geology from University of Tromso, Norway”

Added: 11 May 2006
Reviewer’s Note:
Resources available in English, Norwegian and Russian

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British History Online

“British History Online is the digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust, we aim to support academic and personal users around the world in their learning, teaching and research.”

Added: 17 April 2006
Reviewer’s Note:
“With so much material now being published on the world wide web in either un-reviewed form, or in fee-based services, the IHR has shown its commitment to promoting the study of history by publishing these priceless resources for their historical value, cross-searchable, in one place and free of charge.”

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Einstein Light

“These multimedia modules (click on menu above right) give a brief overview of relativity - they present the main ideas. Inevitably, you will have questions. So the related links (below) give more complete explanations”

Added: 15 December 2005
Reviewer’s Note:
Some animations require the Flash 6 Plugin. The multimedia modules have animations and film clips

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e-Learning for Vets

“Examples of a range of e-learning resources used for veterinary undergraduate teaching and lifelong learning. Includes an emergency case simulator, streaming video, flash animators and complete courses.” 

Added: 29 July 2005
Reviewer’s Note:
From the Royal Veterinary College in London

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Bacteriopoly

“A game that helps learners test their knowledge about bacteria and gives them practice with application of number.”  By Jon Kent and Martyn Hulme, at the Ferl website

Added: 28 July 2005
Reviewer’s Note:
A game created in PowerPoint.

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Clinical Skills Online

“What is Clinical Skills Online? The Clinical Skills Online (CSO) is a project aimed at providing online videos demonstrating core clinical skills common to a wide range of medical and health-based courses.  The clinical skills videos on this site have been created at the ‘lowest common denominator’ level for a host of medical and healthcare related disciplines, with a view to sharing these with the wider community.”

Added: 22 July 2005
Reviewer’s Note:
These videos are freely available to anyone using them for educational, personal and non-commercial purposes only.

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Law, the Internet and Society: Technology and the Future of Ideas.

“This course originally formed part of the Relevant Knowledge undergraduate programme at the Open University. The university has now taken this course out of its academic programme, but the authors have decided to make the material available to a wider public under a Creative Commons licence.”

Added: 16 May 2005
Reviewer’s Note:
Simply register and login

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Baltic Sea Virtual Campus

“aims to construct lasting e-learning structures in the Baltic Sea Area, so that in the future the Baltic Sea countries have equal access to academic education on-line.”

Added: 5 February 2005
Reviewer’s Note:
The “Baltic Sea Virtual Campus” is a project with partners from almost the whole Baltic Sea region, which is part-financed by the European Union (European Regional Development Fund) within the BSR INTERREG III B programme.

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Guide to Financial Statements

“Developed by Baruch’s Computing and Technology Centre and Kognito Solutions LLCw ith the cooperation of Baruch’s Stan Ross Department of Accountancy.”

Added: 9 November 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
Baruch College is part of CUNY, The City University of New York

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Network Games for Learning

“These pages illustrate and document 3 Prototypes of investigations into the educational potential of networked game environments. The work carried out by the International Centre for Digital Content (ICDC) with the help of other partners such as Nesta Future Lab and Criterion Software explores supporting collaborative skills, and learning scientific methodologies ”

Added: 28 July 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
“V-mule is a series of non-violent, multiplayer videogame prototypes that explore the potential learning aspects of these technologies. While the aims of the game are overtly to support the development of children’s thinking and collaboration skills, the scenarios into which they are immersed are more typical of commercial videogames than of traditional ‘edutainment’. Each prototype builds on the lessons learnt from the preceding ones, providing a far more informed and focused iterative production process.”

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WebCT Exemplary Course Project

“WebCT’s 2004 Exemplary Course Project has singled out courses for displaying best practices in course design, interaction/collaboration, assessment/evaluation, meaningful technology use and learner support.”

Added: 12 July 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
Winners of  the 2002 and 2003 WebCT Course Project also available to view

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Visual interpretation of the Table of Elements

“Murray Robertson has produced a striking new representation of the chemical elements drawing on the symbolism that surrounds them from the commonplace, nickel in baked beans, to the mythological, Oppenheimer’s invocation of Shiva as the genie behind the destructive power of the element plutonium”

Added: 15 February 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
This site was a winner of  the Scientific American Sci-Tech Web Awards 2003

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Learning on the Web 2002

 

Updated: 28 September 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
this is the 2002 (PDF) version of this very successful and useful online course about learning on the web

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IVMEDS

“IVIMEDS is a worldwide partnership of 36 leading edge medical schools and institutions from 15 countries”

Added: 2 August 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
The International Virtual Medical School (IVIMEDS) programme being developed will offer a student-centred blend of e-learning and face-to-face learning experiences in Partner Institutions, hospitals and other clinical settings

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Optical Microscopy Primer

“The Molecular Expressions Museum of Microscopy features historical microscopes ranging from sixteenth century Dutch designs through the magnificent microscopes of eighteenth and nineteenth century Europe to the latest microprocessor-powered models available today.”

Added: 24 April 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
Website developed by the Optical Microscopy Division of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, a joint venture of The Florida State University, the University of Florida, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory

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Supercourse: Epidemiology, the Internet and Global Health

“This course is designed to provide an overview on epidemiology and the Internet for medical and health related students around the world.”

Added: 19 February 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
an online repository of more than 1000 free online lectures

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Ductus: An online course in paleograhy

“”Ductus”, from the Latin ducere, “to lead” is a web-based, interactive multimedia program. It is designed to facilitate the teaching of paleography, in particular, the study of the history of western European handwriting.”

Added: 29 January 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
Includes manuscript images, videos, 14-session course in paleography and codicology

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LAAPhysics (Learn Anytime Anywhere Physics)

“is a physics education research and development project. Our goal is a pedagogically driven open-ended laboratory physics courseware product that promotes model-based learning.”

Added: 19 December 2002
Reviewer’s Note:
A write-up about this project appears in The Chronicle of Higher Education (http://chronicle.com/free/2002/12/2002121601t.htm)

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The HyperTextbook: Modern English Grammar

Written by Daniel Kies at the Department of English

Added: 11 August 2002
Reviewer’s Note:
A comprehensive hypertext book for an academic English course

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The Chaos Hypertextbook

“I wrote this book for anyone with an interest in chaos, fractals, non-linear dynamics, or mathematics in general. It’s a moderately heavy piece of work, requiring a bit of mathematical knowledge, but it is definitely not aimed at mathematicians.”

Added: 11 August 2002
Reviewer’s Note:
A hypertext book written and produced back in 1995

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ExploreMath.com

“At ExploreMath we believe the real power of the Internet lies in its ability to bring educators and students together in ways that both meet instructional needs and harness our collective creativity.”

Added: 27 May 2002
Reviewer’s Note:
lesson plans, activities and forums 

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The Applet collection

“These applets enable you to study simple physical systems in a playful way. They are idealizations of realistic scenarios, which follow the proper equations that also govern the real experimental systems.” MSU LectureOnline

Added: 27 May 2002
Reviewer’s Note:
Exercises for the classroom

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HyperStat Online

David Lane is an Associate Professor of Psychology, Statistics, and Administration at Rice University

Added: 27 May 2002
Reviewer’s Note:
A comprehensive resource on statistics

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Who killed William Robinson

“The Who Killed William Robinson? web site is split into five main sections …  Home, The Murder, Historical Contexts, The Archives, and Interpretations” John Lutx, History Dept, University of Victoria

Added: 27 May 2002
Reviewer’s Note:
Won NaWeb 2001 Private entry

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Humans in the Natural World

Dept of Zoology, University of Guelph

Added: 27 May 2002
Reviewer’s Note:
Won NaWeb 2001 Best Single Course.

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Mobile Samples

“The following samples were created completely with Lectora Publisher for Palm OS or Pocket PC.”

Added: 12 May 2002
Reviewer’s Note:
These samples also include tests and collect the results.

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Renaissance Secrets

“Exploring diverse events from a fresh viewpoint, it examines the diversity of Renaissance Italian healthcare, whether or not a Portuguese Jewish doctor tried to poison Queen Elizabeth I, and the methods Gutenberg used to create movable type. A Marxist historian focuses on the peasants, not the rulers, and a feminist historian looks at how women worked within societal constraints.” Open2.net (BBC/OU site)

Added: 12 March 2002
Reviewer’s Note:
Based on the TV series “Renaissance Secrets”

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Clinical Antibiotic Tutorial Site

“The Clinical Antibiotic Tutorial Site is a multimedia interactive course developed as part of the McGill Medical Informatics project. This site covers all the major antibiotics. It is intended only as a review of antibiotic pharmacology, and it should not be used as a treatment guide.”

Added: 23 February 2002
Reviewer’s Note:
Site requires Shockwave

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UICIFD E-Book

“Written by Professor Carrasco and his students, the E-Book provides basic and accessible discussion of key concepts relating to international finance and development. Coverage includes the roles of the IMF and the World Bank in a globalized economy as well as the Mexican and Asian financial crises. Bibliographies are included”

Added: 22 February 2002
Reviewer’s Note:
As part of the University of Iowa’s Global Studies Program, Enrique R. Carrasco and his students have produced an electronic book on International Finance and Development

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Glaze Teach: A course in basic Glaze Technology for Beginners

“Glaze Teach is a free, self paced, instructional resource which aims to help you to come to grips with the basic principles of ceramic glaze technology.  The course was originally written for the students in the Ceramics Department at the School of Art, Otago Polytechnic in Dunedin, New Zealand.”

Added: 8 February 2002
Reviewer’s Note:
Thanks to Jeremy at Visual Arts Dept, University of Gloucestershire, UK for recommending this course

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sociology stuff

“Sociology for people who have better things to do and  like to get out a bit. There  is nothing too complicated here.”

Added: 3 February 2002
Reviewer’s Note:
Produced by a lecturer at City of Bristol College

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Macromedia Higher Education Showcase

Added: 23 January 2002

Reviewer’s Note: A number of tutorials and other learning experiences created with Macromedia products
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Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric

“This online rhetoric, provided by Dr. Gideon Burton of Brigham Young University, is a guide to the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric. Sometimes it is difficult to see the forest (the big picture) of rhetoric because of the trees (the hundreds of Greek and Latin terms naming figures of speech, etc.) within rhetoric. This site is intended to help beginners, as well as experts, make sense of rhetoric, both on the small scale (definitions and examples of specific terms) and on the large scale (the purposes of rhetoric, the patterns into which it has fallen historically as it has been taught and practiced for 2000+ years).”

Added: 18 January 2002
Reviewer’s Note:
This site has been in existence for some years and has won a number of awards.

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Math Emporium

“Students studying calculus, linear algebra, and other mathematics subjects at Virginia Tech are engaged in an exciting new way to learn. From the outset, they know a course’s learning goals, plus important learning milestones they must meet. They set their own schedules. They learn at their own pace. They receive immediate feedback on quizzes and problems.” They explore alternative approaches to learning challenging material. They interact one-on-one with faculty and other students. They master coursework as well as — and often better — than in conventional classrooms. Virginia Tech students are able to do these things and more thanks to a bold experiment called the Math Emporium, a place where technology and teaching are changing the way students learn and succeed. It’s an experience that’s right in step with the kind of learning they will encounter in the workplace when they graduate.”

Added: 16 January 2002
Reviewer’s Note:
Also take a look at the Visitors site, where you find further background information about the Emporium.

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The Art of War

“A companion to the 4th Century B.C. Chinese strategy text translated by Professor Smith and colleagues, this web site contains all the associated scholarly apparatus to help explore the history and culture of 4th Century China. In addition, it includes audio pronunciations of the Chinese as well as the English translation, and non-linear access to the text and accompanying materials.” Kidder Smith, Asian Studies Program, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, USA

Added: 30 December 2001
Reviewer’s Note:
Another well-produced project from Bowdoin College.

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Flight to freedom

“An educational role-playing game that simulates the experience of fugitive slaves in the American South before the Civil War. Users assume the persona of a historical figure, such as Frederick Douglass or Harriet Tubman, and move about a map of the 19th-century United States as they are confronted with events taken from fugitive-slave narratives.” Bowdoin, Brunswick, Maine, USA

Added: 14 December 2001
Reviewer’s Note:
An historical web simulation

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Clutter Busting

by Daniel Pfeifer, University Web Director, DePauw University

Added: 26 November 2001
Reviewer’s Note:
Another clever site by Daniel Pfeifer - “think outside the box”

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Shock-ing Geography

By Daniel Pfeifer, University Web Director, DePauw University

Added: 26 November 2001
Reviewer’s Note:
You need Shockwave to view this clever site

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DoHistory

“A site that shows you how to piece together the past from the fragments that have survived. Our case study: Martha Ballard”  Made by the Film Study Center at Harvard University

Added: 16 November 2001
Reviewer’s Note:
Won  an e-learning design award for “exceptional content-rich and innovative online courses”

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CTDLC Sample Course

“We have built a sample course for students interested in exploring the online learning environment that takes about an hour to complete. We encourage you to login to the course and see if the online experience is for you.”  The Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium

Added: 2001
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American History 102

Civil War to the Present. Stanley K. Schultz, Professor of History; William P. Tishler, Producer; Shane Hamilton, Web Editor. University of Winsconsin

Added: 2000
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Cranial Nerves

Produced for the Yale University School of Medicine by the Yale Center for Instructional Media 

Added: 2000
Reviewer’s Note:
This is the home of the Yale Style Guide, so as you would expect the learning materials are well structured and presented.

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e-Skeletons Project

“The e-Skeletons Project website enables you to view the bones of a human, gorilla, and baboon and gather information about them from our osteology database.”

Added: 2000
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Economics Interactive Tutorials

Produced by Samuel L Baker at the University of South Carolina, School of Public Health, Dept of Health Administration.

Added: 2000.
Reviewer’s Note:
This course use Java applets to allow students to interact with the data in the lectures. 

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Educational Policy Advocacy

“EAF 524 (Educational Policy Advocacy) was the world’s first (1994) totally asynchronous (independent of space and time) online doctoral-level course for educators.” Dr Rod Riegle, Dept of Educational Administration and Foundations, College of Education at Illinois State University.

Added: 2000.
Reviewer’s Note:
A unique experience!

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Interactive Tutorial on Balancing Equations

Created by Yue-Ling Wong, Chemistry Dept, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC.  This site requires the Shockwave plugin.  More material at Interactivity Technology Applied in Chemical Education Chemistry Dept, Wake Forest University

Added: 2000
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Introduction to Philosophy

 

Added: 2000.
Reviewer’s Note:
A well-laid out set of pages with information relating to this course in the Philosophy and Religion Department, MSU. This Web site was given the Virtual Classroom Award by the editors of the  Philosophy Research Base.

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LabWork

Online experiments from the Dept of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Leicester.

Added: 2000
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Learning to Learn

“Learning to Learn is for learners, teachers, and researchers. It teaches the value of self-awareness as a critical part of learning.” SNOW (Special Needs Opportunity Window) Project, University of Toronto.

Added: 2000
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Math HelpBook on Equations and Functions

A text-based approach to provide help with equations and functions.  Geoaths MathHelp Project at UCL

Added: 2000
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Media Literacy

“This course focuses on the role of the Mass Media in the development of both “popular” and “personal” culture.” (1999) Terry Dugas, The College of Arts and Sciences, Florida Gulf Coast University.

Updated: 14 November 2005
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Middle East Simulation

“The “Simulation” began as a technique for teaching Middle East Politics through the internet. In essence, it is an extended role-playing game conducted by e-mail and web site whereby students, divided into teams of two or three playing a Middle Eastern role, will respond to a likely scenario in order to further their interests.” Macquarie University, Australia

Added: 2000
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Nitrogen Cycle

Animated biological resource .. and there’s lots more at DTRL (Digital Teaching Resources Laboratory) in the Dept of Biological Sciences at University of Alberta

Updated: 7 May 2005
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Physical Geography Course Content and Learning Modules

Created by Rita D. Haberlin, Department of Geography, College of Alameda

Added: 2000
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Principles of Learning and Behaviour

“You will learn about and experience the principles of conditioning and learning by the way this course is structured.” (1997) Tom Creed, College of St Benedict, St John’s University.

Added: 2000
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Principles of Protein Structure - Using the Internet

(1996) Dept of Crystallography,  Birkbeck College, London University.

Added: 2000.
Reviewer’s Note:
One of the first online courses from a UK university.  This course is still available to view. 

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Probability Tutorials

“Welcome to my probability Tutorials. These are meant to be a complete online course on measure theory, lebesgue integration and probability.”

Added: 2000
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Public Health Concepts and Practice

This 3 semester hour course (CHSC 400) provides an introduction to public health concepts and practice by examining the philosophy, purpose, history, organization, functions, tools, activities and results of public health practice at the national, state, and community levels. The University of Illinois at Chicago.

Added: 2000
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SALMON

The award-winning web site which contains support material for courses taught by Dr Paul Kenyon in the Department of Psychology, University of Plymouth.

Updated: 2007
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Silicon, Circuits and the Digital Revolution

“This Honors colloquium introduces first-year students to some of the science behind high technology. Designed to promote scientific and computer literacy and awareness, it gives students an opportunity to leverage their interests in everyday devices and high-tech objects into a study of fundamental science concepts. Live demonstrations, in-class group explorations of technology applications, and daily work with the Internet are essential elements of this course” (2000) George Watson, University of Delaware. Added: 2000

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SmartPanel Tutorial

The SmartPanel is a technology enhanced classroom control panel,  Stanford University.

Added: 2000
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Southern Brakes and Plastics

An interactive case study from Deakin University

Added: 2000
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Studying Cells Tutorial

This exercise is designed to review the scientific method and introduce you to the cell as the fundamental unit of life… The cell is an appropriate place to start a course of biology–to understand life in a useful and meaningful way, you have to understand the cell.” Produced by The Biology Project at Arizona University.

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SWOT Shop

“The SWOT SHOP houses links to academic and technical information that will be useful to Chemical Engineers, whether student or practising engineer. Although the SWOT SHOP was established with our own students in mind, it is an open site and its information is for all to share, except for those pages that contain ’sensitive’ material of course.”

Added: 2000
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Television Production

A Comprehensive On-line Cybertext in Studio and Field Production.

Added: 2000
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Virtual Frog Dissection Kit

“This award-winning interactive program is part of the Whole Frog project   You can interactively dissect a (digitized) frog named Fluffy, make movies and play the Virtual Frog Builder Game. The interactive Web pages are available in a number of languages. Help and additional information available include a tutorial, an overview of how the system works, a paper that was presented at WWW ‘94, and a paper that was published in COMPCON ‘95.” (1999) Berkeley Lab

Added: 2000
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The Virtual Frog Dissection Kit has now become a world famous example of online education

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Virtual Laboratory

A collection of interactive Java applets for use in Physics, Astronomy or Environmental Science courses. Part of The Electronic Universe, an outreach server at the University of Oregon

Added: 2000
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Virtual Presentation Assistant

“The Virtual Presentation Assistant is an online tutorial for improving your public speaking skills. This site is designed to help you target your specific needs as a speaker”  Dept of Communication Studies, University of Kansas

Added: 2000
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Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature

“These tutorials each explore different methods of literary study and of delivery. The project also involved building up an archive of material relating to the War, which lecturers and students can use across the Web, creating their own tutorials or on-line essays. As with the Rosenberg project, this is a free, publicly available service. Funding was provided for two years, with Paul Groves as the Project Research Officer and Dr. Stuart Lee as the Project Manager.” Oxford University

Added: 2000
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Visual Calculus

“Originally, this collection was designed for instructors to give some ideas how technology, in particular, computers, can be used in the teaching of calculus. Detailed instructions on implementing these ideas with various public domain, shareware and commercial software packages are provided. The collection has been expanded to include tutorials, interactive modules (MathView, Java, and Javascript) which can be used by either students or faculty and now also includes detailed instructions for TI-85 and TI-86 graphing calculators.” From the Maths Archives server at University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Added: 2000
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What is Chaos?

A 5-part online course for everyone. Written by Dr Matthew Trump at the Ilya Prigogine Centre for Studies in Statistical Mechanics and Complex Systems.  University of Texas at Austin

Added: 2000.
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xTurtle Programming Applet

The applet on this page — assuming that you have a Java-enabled browser — lets you write and run programs written in the “xTurtle” programming language. Maths and Computer Science Dept, Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

Added: 2000
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General Interest e-Learning Showcase

This page provides a showcase of examples of e-Learning solutions developed for general interest purposes and for learners of all ages. It consists of links to both formal online courses as well as other informal online learning solutions.

Articles in date order, most recent first.

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Six Sigma training online

Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma Black Belt online training certification courses.

Added: 15 February 2008
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Moodle Training Blog

A blog about Moodle, Moodle Training and VLE related issues for secondary and primary schools

Added: 7 February 2008
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e Chinese Learning

eChinese Learning is a live one-on-one online Chinese language school located in Beijing.

Added: 22 November 2007
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Internet & E-mail for Teenagers with Down Syndrome

Series of interactive lessons designed specifically for teenagers with Down Syndrome to help them learn about and use the Internet & e-mail easily and safely.

Added: 9 August 2007
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nilsh elearning blog

e-learning blog from educational consultant and training manager Nils Hjelmervik. Currently employed at the norwegian VLE company it’ s learning.

Added: 6 August 2007
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Nano-Learner

This flash animation takes your through a sturctured goal setting process. Applying imagery and empathic questions the user is able to create a receptive learning state, breaking down unconscious barriers which accelerates learning.

Added: 1 August 2007
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Wait for the animation to play

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Care-Academy Blog

“The Care-Academy Blog contains a wealth of information and commentary on Care Learning - including the use of e-Learning and IT Skills requirements. ”

Added: 02 July 2007
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Liquid e-Learning blog

“Michelle Gallen’s e-learning blog - covering a wide range of technologies, news and issues in e-learning.”

Added: 12 June 2007
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Free Web 2.0 E-learning Platforn & Marketplace

“eLearning Community 2.0 is a FREE marketplace for Infopreneurs (Internet Entrepreneurs) to grow their info business to the next level by leveraging the power of social networking offered by Web 2.0.”

Added: 31 May 2007
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Getting to Grips with Heritage

“aberdeenquest.com is a new website which uses the collections from Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums to help children and young people learn. It is fully interactive and is a great source of cultural and heritage material.”

Added: 31 May 2007
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Video4Learning

“video4learning.com is dedicated to helping educators create and use video in their teaching and training. It covers all aspects from recording and editing techniques - through to innovative methods for sharing video.”

Added: 31 May 2007
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Real Game

“The Real Game is a series of classroom-based programmes developed to help students learn more about themselves and both the opportunities and the responsibilities of adult life in a fun and constructive way.”

Added: 21 May 2007
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THINKfootball!

“Newcastle United Learning Centre presents THINKfootball! a web based learning system.

Learning is delivered through engaging football themed multimedia games accompanied by support materials.”
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Added: 21 May 2007

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The Love of Wisdom

“User generated educational site that lets you submit and rate News, Links, and Discussions.”

Added: 29 March 2007
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JotSpace Online Whiteboard

“JotSpace is a free web-based, collaboration whiteboard. It allows multiple users to work on the same board simultaneously as if in the same room. Whiteboards include sticky pads, photo uploads, chat, connectors and markers that never run out of ink. Great for training and planning.”

Added: 28 March 2007
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DamaWorks

“We design e-learning products for K-12 and university level education, and continuing education for any business sectors. We utilize all the relevant tools of multimedia in our products. Our e-learning products are fundamentally designed to work in SCORM and other standards to fit seamlessly into Learning Management Systems (LMS).”

Added: 27 March 2007
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Based in Turkey

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Buzz 3D Interface

“A Buzz 3D Interface makes training a more engaging and attractive activity. Interactive environments can simultaneously display videos, audio, web content, PowerPoint, animated 3D models, and even live TV, all in the same branded 3D space, which offers the potential for achieving a far higher level of understanding and involvement”.

Added: 14 March 2007
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UK Based

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Openlearn

“Openlearn makes educational resources, taken from Open University (UK) courses, freely available under a Creative Commons copyright license to anyone, anywhere in the world with access to the internet. State of the art learning support and social networking tools have been built into the site to connect users”.

Added: 28 February 2007
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The Open University is one of the oldest and biggest providers of online education both in the UK and other countries.

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Build Your Memory

“This is a general study aid and memory improvement resource. It is geared towards helping it’s viewers to improve their general memory and to help them absorb and retain new information better. It contains techniques for recalling names, faces, numbers, foreign language vocabulary and general facts.”

Added: 18 December 2006
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An online e-book on how to improve your memory.

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Discerningly Versed

The site uses iterative learning techniques to let the user effectively learn the answers to a wide variety of topics. There are currently 12000 questions with many being added daily.

Added: 22 August 2006
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To improve understanding, knowledge and long term retention for a variety of user selected topics.

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Rocket Science 101

 

Added: 22 May 2006
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An online NASA demo to find out how to construct a rocket for space travel

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Faultine

Online educational resource at the Exploratorium about earthquakes.

Added: 30 April 2006
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As San Francisco commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Big Shake of 1906, this resource makes intriguing viewing

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LearnItalianPod.com

“Learn Italian when and where is most convenient for you with free podcasts. Published every Monday and Thursday.”

Added: 30 April 2006
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Another example of using iPods for learning purposes

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Shroud of Turin

“This project examines the authenticity of The Shroud of Turin, and the possibility that Leonardo created it, in light of the recreation of the Shroud by Stephen Beckman who used a pinhole camera with renaissance technology and materials. Take the quiz to be rewarded with a Da Vinci Divination.”

Added: 29 April 2006
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Recipient of the ISTE SIGTEL Online Learning Awards 2006

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Ten best foods/ten worst foods

“Exploration of the best foods to manage weight and cure ailments and identifies the worst foods which are prevalent in our society. Take the quiz to receive your just dessert.”

Added: 29 March 2006
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Selected as a Landmark Project and a USA Today Educator’s Best Bet.

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ALBIS

“ALBIS is a vocabulary learning system. ALBIS will enable you to pick up basic vocabulary of a foreign language quickly. With the mundane task of memorizing new vocabulary made less tedious by ALBIS, you can spend more time on other aspects of learning the language, such as pronunciation and grammar, or practicing your use of the language in conversation.”

Added: 19 March 2006
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ALBIS is absolutely free for anyone to use. Try it out

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Inside the Brain: An Interactive Tour

“What happens in the brain of a person with Alzheimer’s disease? This tour explains how the brain works and how Alzheimer’s affects it.”  From the Alzheimer’s Association

Added: 24 February 2006
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There are 16 interactive slides.

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Gardening Online

“Gardening Online is ideal for beginner gardeners and those who want to improve their gardening skills, and especially for those who have an interest in online communities. Aimed at adult community learners, they’ll find all the essentials for creating a thriving organic garden or allotment.” From the Workers Educational Association

Added: 15 February 2006
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Follow the link to Gardening Online from the homepage and then login as a guest

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iplayMusic

“We make learning guitar fun”

Added: 18 January 2006
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Download to your iPod

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Newton’s Castle

“Learn about Newton’s discoveries and secret life, color, illusions, observations from nature and fascinating facts about how cars roll up hill and why dogs chase cars. There’s several Project Legal lessons regarding copyright issues and a Newton Timeline. A perfect quiz score gains access to the treasures of the MoMA.”

Added: 28 December 2005
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A stimulating journey into the revelations of Sir Isaac Newton

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A Christmas Carol: the podcast

“Starting Thursday 15 December, we’ll be podcasting a complete reading of Charles Dickens’ classic yuletide tale, A Christmas Carol, narrated by Geoffrey Palmer.” From thepenguinpodcast.

Added: 16 December 2005
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Subscribe today and don’t miss an episode.

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wikiHow

“wikiHow is a collaborative writing project to build the world’s largest how-to manual. With your contributions, we can create a free resource that helps people by offering clear, concise solutions to the problems of everyday life.”

Added: 16 November 2005
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As of this date wikiHow currently contains 3399 articles written, edited, and maintained primarily by volunteers

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ChinesePod

“Learn Chinese with free daily podcasts”

Added: 1 November 2005
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Also includes a personal learning center.

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Punctuate Plus

“Punctuate plus offers a resource for learning the rules and styles of punctuation in English. This networked version runs in any web browser with the Shockwave plugin, and is ideal for educational establishments, or businesses wishing to enhance literacy skills amongst employees.”

Added: 24 October 2005
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“This is a fully featured version of our forthcoming release ‘Punctuate Shockwave’ which is basically the Punctuate+ program adapted so that it can be installed onto closed network / intranet.”

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Fantasy Health Minister

“The object of the game is to improve the health of the nation and increase your political popularity whilst staying under budget - and keeping the people depending on you happy.”

Added: 11 October 2005
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Fantasy Health Minister is part of the New Statesman and Pfizer Policy Forum on Health.

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SMSBible

“SMSBible allows you to send Bible verses of your choice together with your own personal message (up to about 150 characters total) to groups of people.”

Added: 8 October 2005
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Free download

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Computer Tutor: The BBC’s guide to using a computer

“Computer Tutor is a resource for people who don’t know how to use a keyboard, mouse or computer screen. Computer Tutor presenter Amani is then on hand to take computer novices from start to finish step-by-step. Sit back and watch as Computer Tutor teaches all the skills they need to use a computer”

Added: 9 August 2005
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To make things fun, the resource is set in ‘Game Show World’, a theme park about TV game shows.

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Free online typing course

“Learn how to type correctly in just a few hours using all your fingers.  You will soon be typing faster than you ever imagined. 27 guided lessons to learn step-by-step from the beginning. Web-based course. No downloads required.”

Added: 27 May 2005
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Sign up to ensure you learn on the correct keyboard for your country.

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Cellphedia

“This is a cell phone application that promotes the sharing of knowledge. It allows to send and receive encyclopedia-type inquiries between specific, pre-defined groups of users, through Text messaging. Users can register here on this site and start building the quick-reference Cellphedia-type encyclopedia entries, by asking other users and answering other users’ questions where-ever cell phone service is available.”

Added: 14 May 2005
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Cellphedia is a thesis project created by a graduate student at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU.

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Spanish Word of the Day

“Are you studying Spanish? Spanish Word of the Day.com offers a unique free method in which to build your vocabulary. Daily we send you an email with new vocabulary words to your email box. The vocabulary  includes the definition and examples of the proper use of the word. Proverbs and idioms are also provided. There are beginning, intermediate, and advanced vocabulary. Mailings are Monday through Friday.”

Added: 3 March 2005
Reviewer’s Note:
Free educational tool that pushes content to you on a daily basis

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Inside Einstein’s Universe

“Joining the worldwide celebration of the centennial of Einstein’s “miracle year,” the NASA-Smithsonian UniverseForum is creating a portfolio of highly visual, dramatic interactive learning resources especially for use by museums, science centers, planetariums and other science education organizations. ”

Added: 3 March 2005
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The “Inside Einstein’s Universe” program uses the rich resources of NASA’s space science research missions to take audiences on a journey through the cosmos as we now know it.

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Answers.com

“Discover the power of 1-Click AnswersTM. It brings you instant information about any word on your screen, whether you’re working in Word, reading your e-mail, or browsing the web.”

Added: 10 February 2005
Reviewer’s Note:
Here is an example: how it defines e-learning (http://www.answers.com/e-learning)

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The British Library: A tour for public library staff

“This tour will enable you to improve the services and resources available to users of the public library network. The British Library is one of the world’s largest libraries, which occupies three major sites and houses more than 150 million items. We take you on a virtual tour of the Library enabling you to experience the library, its services and collections and help you make them available to your users. Throughout the tour we highlight links to the British Library website which we hope you will want to explore.”

Added: 6 December 2004
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“Using a combination of video, images, text and web links the online tour guides users through the range of the British Library’s services. Taking about three hours to complete, the tour has been designed so that it can be completed in small portions, enabling users to return to where they left off. A simple downloadable workbook has also been created to help users work through the tour.”

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Virtualtrader

“The UK’s largest and best Stockmarket simulation game. Experience the thrill of investing with no risk. It’s completely free to play.  Virtual Trader is the most comprehensive Investment Simulation Game available, offering its users the opportunity to gain practical experience trading a wide range of investment vehicles, such as Stocks, Options, Futures, Mutual Funds etc.”

Added: 25 October 2004
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Start with a portfolio of £100,000 of virtual money and trade stocks listed on the London Stock Exchange and Euronext.. Conduct limit and stop orders, build your own private game and more!

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Tate Online Learning

“Interactive and online resources for young people and adults from Tate Britain, Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool, Tate St Ives”

Added: 20 October 2004
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Includes Tate Kids, In Focus, Online Courses, Study Days Online, etc

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The English Maze

“is a web-based learning system for individuals and schools worldwide. It combines leading language learning theories with cutting edge technology to bring users a unique approach to learning English. With the English Maze, students can improve their pronunciation, speaking, reading, listening and writing skills.”

Added: 10 October 2004
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The site contains hundreds of hours of material, much of which is free.

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Smithsonian TV

“The Smithsonian hosts a wide array of performances, lectures, and other events that bring to life the everchanging exhibits found in our museums and traveling the country. 

Added: 27 September 2004
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Smithsonian.TV is a guide to the latest live and archived streaming media content available for viewing from the comfort of your home.”

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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

“An illustrated collection of 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain’s past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2000.”

Added: 25 September 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
The Oxford DNB is a subscription-only site: to see the full content you, your library, or an institution you belong to must have a current subscription.

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Maverick eLearning Place

“The Maverick eLearning Place provides innovative, cost-effective Beates-themed on-line learning courses for both individual learners and organisations. By using the analogy of the Beatles phenomenon as a source and inspiration in this way, it offers a suite of learning courses that provide lessons from the Fab Four’s anthology that can help us to live better lives and maximise our potential.”

Added: 14 September 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
The course “All you need is success” is designed to help you achieve a greater degree of success in your working life and personal life. It uses the analogy of The Beatles and their individual character types as a source and inspiration to help you recognise your own talents and your preferred communication style.

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Boaters Toolbox

“The Boater’s Toolbox, a new Web-based learning tool offered by the BoatU.S. Foundation for Boating Safety and Clean Water, is now available for those who want to learn more about boating concepts.”

Added: 26 August 2004
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“The toolbox features in-depth information on safety and environmental issues affecting today’s boaters. To make concepts more easy to understand, animation is used to illustrate hard-to-grasp ideas such as right of way and rules of the road.”

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Frogs: A chorus of colours

“Brilliant orange, bright blue, dazzling red–frogs come in an astonishing array of colors. This vivid assortment of hues hints at the remarkable diversity that exists among the frog species inhabiting the globe. From lush rainforests to parched deserts, frogs are found in nearly every environment on Earth, and their survival strategies range from surprising to bizarre.”

Added: 24 August 2004
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From the American Museum of Natural History

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Interactive Graphics of the Olympics

 

Added: 22 August 2004
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From the Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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WordCount

“WordCount™ is an interactive presentation of the 86,800 most frequently used English words.”

Added: 28 July 2004
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“WordCount™ is an artistic experiment in the way we use language.”

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Visual Thesaurus

“The Visual Thesaurus takes a unique, and remarkably beautiful, approach to presenting the results of a word lookup. Discover and learn from nearly 140,000 words, meanings and relationships. Through its emphasis on exploration and vocabulary building, the Visual Thesaurus can improve reading, writing and communication skills.”

Added: 5 July 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
Try it now: Type in a word into the textbox on the upper left corner of the site, and click “Look it up”.

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Interactive body

Interactive games - organs, muscles, skeleton, nervous system, puberty from the BBC

Added: 31 May 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
Winner of a 2004 Webby award in the Education category

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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

“I want to read the Notebooks, but there are 1,565 pages and I have too much else to read. At a page a day it would take a little over four years, but be manageable. Using this site, I can read one page a day using my RSS News Reader. I started at page 1 on May 30th, 2004.”

Added: 31 May 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
An example of an educational RSS application

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The diary of Samuel Pepys

“This site is a presentation of the diaries of Samuel Pepys, the renowned 17th century diarist who lived in London, England (read more about him). A new entry written by Pepys will be published each day; 1 January 1660 was published on 1 January 2003.”

Added: 9 May 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
A  more realistic way of reading the diaries

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V&A Schools & Students

“The V&A offers a range of dynamic programmes and resources to school students and teachers as well as FE and HE students and lecturers.”

Updated: 8 May 2005
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Psychology for Soccer

“is FA Learning’s first ever online qualification and is available now to anyone with access to the internet and gives you all these features as part of your enrolment on the course.  The course is aimed at coaches, parents and teachers of 7-12 year olds looking to gain an introduction to psychology and understand the needs of players.”

Added; 23 April 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
Access the FREE trial or enrol on the online course

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AuroraWebCam

“This is the of the Northern Lights international project. “This free site provides the 1st private worldwide live webcast of auroras in history”

Added: 16 March 2004
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Learn “live” about the Aurora Borealis (from Mt Aurora, Alaska)

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Virtual Planisphere

“With spectacular photographs by leading astrophotographers, the Virtual Planisphere allows you to view the constellations at any time of the year”

Added: 16 March 2004
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Digital Microscope

“Ever wanted to examine cells up close and personal? The Online Digital Microscope allows you to examine plant and animal material, as well as a saucy selection of microbes”

Added: 14 March 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
A couple of interactive resources from the Open University.  More on the same page.

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droplet

“Amateur Microscopy of the Protozoa”

Added: 5 March 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
Beautiful imagery of protozoa

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Port Cities UK

“PortCities UK invites visitors to experience the past by exploring the impact that major rivers and ports have had on the present and examines the influence of Britain’s maritime past on five UK port cities, particularly on the communities who lived and worked in them.  The interactive website enables public access to images from the historic archives, museums and libraries of the five partners. The online collection follows the digitisation of over 60,000 photographs, paintings, drawings and documents, most now displayed for the first time.”

Added: 4 February 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
PortCities is a partnership of websites supported by the New Opportunities Fund.

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answerbag

“A compilation of human knowledge and experience - Answerbag is a universal, user-generated collection of frequently-asked questions. It is built and moderated by you, our users - please feel free to look for answers, post answers, or post questions!”

Added: 29 January 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
A finalist in the SXSW awards in the Educational resources section

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HungerBanquet.org

“An innovative take on the Oxfam Hunger Banquet, this easy-to-use and educational site invites a person to step into a world where access to food and other resources are often scarce. By “taking a seat” at the Hunger Banquet table, the user assumes the role of a person from a developing nation. Explore the causes of hunger around the world, and learn how your choices can determine the future!”  Oxfam

Added: 14 January 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
An interactive approach to finding out about hunger

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Dream Anatomy

“The interior of our bodies is hidden to us. What happens beneath the skin is mysterious, fearful, amazing. In antiquity, the body’s internal structure was the subject of speculation, fantasy, and some study, but there were few efforts to represent it in pictures. The invention of the printing press in the 15th century-and the cascade of print technologies that followed-helped to inspire a new spectacular science of anatomy, and new spectacular visions of the body. Anatomical imagery proliferated, detailed and informative but also whimsical, surreal, beautiful, and grotesque – a dream anatomy that reveals as much about the outer world as it does the inner self.”

Added: 10 January 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
“Drawn mainly from the collections of the National Library of Medicine, Dream Anatomy shows off the anatomical imagination in some of its most astonishing incarnations, from 1500 to the present.”

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How to: By You

“Every now and then, a new topic will be posted. It could be anything from ‘How to eat peas.’ to ‘How to build an areoplane.’ No answer is wrong and it’s up to you, the player, to explain how to do it. Have fun, try to keep it on topic and check back for more updates.”

Added: 7 January 2004
Reviewer’s Note:
This is an experiment in intuition - a sociological project is about the study of knowledge among human society and how it can differ and change.

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PolarHusky.com

“An Educational Exploration of Nunavut. Setting out to document arctic climate change we will dogsled the territory of Nunavut, meeting Inuit Elders and students, to explore traditional ecological knowledge in the remote communities visited along the trail while gathering scientific data daily from the field for NASA and Environment Canada.”

Added: 2 December 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
“Join Team Artic transect on an interactive journey to explore one of the most unique and most threatened environments on Earth - the Artic.”

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Love and yearning: mystical and moral themes in Persian poetry and painting

“Persian lyrical poetry flourished in the late 9th century at the provincial courts of eastern Iran, where poets used the context of romantic drama to express universal and timeless emotions such as loyalty, generosity and humility, love, yearning and loss.”  Smithsonian Institution

Added: 13 November 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
A Flash-based online exhibition with zoom features to look close up at the detail 

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European Space Agency Education

“The ESA Education Office coordinates all the education activities proposed by the various ESA Directorates and the Education Office itself. Our aim is to help young Europeans, aged from 6 to 28, to gain and maintain an interest in science and technology by organising or informing them about various activities designed for their specific age group.”

Added: 1 November 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
Suitable for school, Higher Education and general interest

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Everest

“The mysteries of Everest boggle the mind. How did it get so tall? What changes happen in the human body in the extreme conditions of high altitude climbing? Learn the answers to these questions and more by exploring plate tectonics, physiology , or following one of our many links to other terrific sites about the mountain.”  From the Tech Museum of Innovation

Added: 31 October 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
Experience the trek from base camp to the summit of the world’s highest mountain in the Interactive Tour.

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The Geology of Mars

“Here you can learn about the six geological processes that are either currently operating on Mars or have operated during Martian history. These include the aeolian, cratering, hydro, landslides, tectonic, and volcanic processes. The exploration of Mars is an ongoing NASA project, and you may visit their website to obtain the latest information on Martian research.”

Added: 30 August 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
With all the excitement about Mars at this time, this is a good place to find out more

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Turning the pages on the Web

“Discover the British Library’s award-winning system Turning the Pages. Just use the links to start turning the pages of our great books.”  British Library

Added: 30 August 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
Links to 2Leonardo Notebook”, “lindisfarne Gospels”, “Sultan Baybar’s Qur’an” and “Sherborne Missal”

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Anne Frank the Writer: An Unfinished Story

“Between the ages of 13 and 15, Anne Frank wrote short stories, fairy tales, essays, and the beginnings of a novel.  Five notebooks and more than 300 loose pages, meticulously handwritten during her two years in hiding, survived the war.  Launch the exhibition “An Unfinished Story” to reveal the original writings - through sound and images - of a young woman who had great ambition to be a writer and was exploring her craft.”

Added: 24 August 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
Use the zoom tool to get a close-up view of Anne’s writings.

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From Language to Language

“This website offers translations for thousands of words in dozens of languages and there’s even an option for accessing the dictionary via your mobile phone or PDA when abroad..”

Added: 17 August 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
There are also games and quizzes you can play to help learn a language. You can even sign up to have the Word of the Day (translated into a number of languages) emailed to you every day - a good example of “push learning”.

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How everyday things are made

“AIM has developed an introductory website showing how various items are made. It covers over 40 different products and manufacturing processes, and includes almost 4 hours of manufacturing video. It is targeted towards non-engineers and engineers alike. Think of it as your own private online factory tour, or a virtual factory tour, if you wish.” Alliance for Innovative Manufacturing at Stanford University

Added: 17 August 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
Optimized for DSL/Cable speeds or greater. Macromedia FlashPlayer plugin (6.029 or greater) required 

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Smithsonian Education

“The central education website of the Smithsonian Institution.”

Added: 17 August 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
This website is a collective effort by staff of the Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies.

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DNAinteractive

“Many scientists, including more than ten Nobel Laureates, were interviewed for their viewpoints on how we came to understand the DNA language of life, how we began to bend it to our own service, and what it can tell us about who we are and how our lives may be in the future.” Dolan DNA Learning Center.

Added: 10 August 2003
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A well produced, extensive site covering how the code evolved , how the Human Genome Project mapped the book of life, DNA fingerprinting and more 

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iLoveLanguages

“iLoveLanguages is a comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources. The more than 2000 links at iLoveLanguages have been hand-reviewed to bring you the best language links the Web has to offer. Whether you’re looking for online language lessons, translating dictionaries, native literature, translation services, software, language schools, or just a little information on a language you’ve heard about, iLoveLanguages probably has something to suit your needs.”

Added: 3 August 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
iLoveLanguages is the latest redesign of The Human-Languages Page and the Languages catalog of the WWW Virtual Library

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Race - The power of an illusion

“The online companion to California Newsreel’s 3-part documentary about race in society, science and history.”

Added: 4 July 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
Quick facts and quizzes about human diversity

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The Loc.Gov Wise Guide

“This Wise Guide portal was designed to introduce you to the many fascinating, educational and useful resources available from the nation’s library and one of the most popular Web sites of the federal government. The “Wise Guide” will be refreshed monthly, much like a magazine, offering links to the best of the Library’s online materials. Each of these “articles” is based on items contained in a collection, database, reading room or other area of the Library’s online offerings. You will see that we are “more than a library,” and our holdings range from prints, photographs, films, audio recordings, maps, manuscripts, music and digital materials to (of course) books.”

Added: 12 June 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
This is one way of exploring the millions of resources available at the Library of Congress 

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Thriftdeluxe

“Thriftdeluxe is a non-commercial contemporary DIY zine which provides easy, inexpensive yet damn cool projects that anyone can make by following our simple instructions.”

Added: 15 May 2003
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“Thrift deluxe is a London Based DIY site for cool people.”

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Innervisions

“A rare and unusual look into the complex beautiful structures of flowers and leaves. Mixed with a fine sense of design, he has given us a view of natures inner workings that unfolds into an intense beauty that is hidden from the naked eye”

Added: 11 May 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
Winner of a number of photography awards

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Introduction to sailing

“The sport of sailboat racing is one of excitement and strategy. Not only are you competing against the times of other boats, but you are also up against the wind and your own sailing knowledge and abilities. Introduction to Sailing is designed to teach you the fundamentals of sailboat racing. Once you understand the basic strategies, you can race a sailboat on the ‘Skipper’s Course’ and the ‘Web Cup Course.’ 

Added: 11 May 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
The ‘About this Game’ section gives you the story behind the creation of this game.

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Art of the First World War

“100 paintings from international collections to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of the First World War.”

Added: 10 May 2003
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“This is an excellent website devoted to the art produced during the First World War. The database includes 54 artists and images of 100 pictures from museums in London, Paris, Berlin, Bonn, Vienna, Caen and Verdun.”

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Paths of Memory

“At this first stage of a project which will take several years to complete, the places of memory selected have one trait in common: they are all situated within the present-day frontiers of countries of the six partner institutions. Over the next two years, our existing teams of historians aim to increase the number of sites in order to evoke further places of memory - including some of those situated outside the national territory of the six participating countries - and to increase the number of cross-references.”

Added: 24 April 2003
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“The idea is to enable the public to compare different national experiences during, and memories of, these three wars (including military/naval/air operations, the home front, repression, occupation and liberation).”

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The Tower of London

“Welcome to our Tower of London website, created in association with the Yeoman Warders of the Tower. We hope that this site will help to capture some of the magic and excitement that you get when visiting the Tower in person. We have tried to bring you as much information as possible about the tower and show you some of the areas that are not accessible when you visit in person. This website however is no substitute for the real thing and if you ever get the chance to come to London then make sure that you pay the Tower of London a visit (don’t forget to tell them you’ve seen this website).”

Added: 12 April 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
Excitement, information and education!

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Test your Geography Knowledge

 

Added: 11 April 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
Click on the map to locate the country in questions - simple yet effective

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Celebrating 50 years of DNA

“The discovery of DNA in 1953 revolutionized the way we understand life and promises to change the practice of modern medicine.”

Added: 28 March 2003
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Major events and symposia will be taking place during the year to mark the 50th anniversary

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Gravely Gorgeous

“Gargoyles, Grotesques and the Nineteenth Century Imagination”

Added: 22 March 2003
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“Cornell University’s art museum shares its gallery of gloriously grotesque architectural ornaments, a collection of images filtered through a 19th-century lens.”

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ancientmexico.com

“An educational resource for the study of the art and cultures of Pre-Columbian MesoAmerica.”

Added: 7 March 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
A beautifully illustrated site and magnificent resource

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35th Infantry Division in World War II

“The 35th Infantry Division, during WWII, consisted of almost two dozen units – each with a specific purpose. Click on an banner below to learn more about a specific unit.”

Added: 27 February 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
One of the the SXSW Website Competition Finalists for 2003 (Educational Resource)

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Playing with time

“Playing With Time is an exciting, new project that looks at how the world around you is changing over many different time periods … at the Playing With Time web site, unseen worlds of change will be revealed. You will see time sped up and slowed down, and behold the beauty of change. Time will be in your hands to witness, replay, and even create. You never know… you might not look at things quite the same way again.”

Added: 20 February 2003
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just watch or collaborate!

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photoLondon

“London’s libraries, museums and archives possess a treasure house of modern and historic photographs of London. The photoLondon website exists to highlight and promote these collections. The site also provides background information on photography in London.”

Added: 20 February 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
Founded by the Guildhall Library, Museum of London, London Metropolitan Archives, Westminster City Archives, National Monuments Records

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Leonardo da Vinci

“This feature has been designed to complement “Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsman” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.” Metropolitan Museum of Art

Added: 10 February 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
A number of features to help you explore the exhibition

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Timeline of art history

“The Timeline of Art History is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated especially by the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection. The Museum’s curatorial, conservation, and education staff–perhaps the largest single core of art experts anywhere in the world–research and write the Timeline, which is an invaluable reference and research tool for students, educators, scholars, and anyone interested in the study of art history and related subjects.”

Added: 3 February 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
You can also explore special topics like The Ziggurat at Ur, Samurai or Jan Van Eyk

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DNA from the beginning

“is organized around key concepts. The science behind each concept is explained by: animation, image gallery, video interviews, problem, biographies, and links.”  Dolan DNA Learning Center, Gene Almanac -  “The source for timely information about genes in education.”

Added: 3 February 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
There are a number of other interesting resources about DNA at the Center

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Lemonade game  

“Your goal in this game will be to make as much money as you can within 30 days. To do this, you’ve decided to open your own business — a Lemonade Stand! You’ll have complete control over almost every part of your business, including pricing, quality control, inventory control, and purchasing supplies. You’ll also have to deal with the weather, which can be unpredictable. Unfortunately, the weather will play a big part when customers are deciding whether or not to buy your product.”

Updated: 2 February 2003
Reviewer’s Note:
There are a number of variations of this game

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The American Museum of Photography

 

Added: 20 December 2002
Reviewer’s Note:
Take the Guided Tour for floor plan, exhibitions and other features

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Pathe News

“Welcome to the world’s first digital news archive. Now you are here you can preview items from the entire 3500 hour British Pathe Film Archive which covers news, sport, social history and entertainment from 1896 to 1970. You can also license higher resolution copies of the same items for PowerPoint Presentations and Web Publishing.”

Added: 21 November 2002
Reviewer’s Note:
“Just type in what you are looking for above and within minutes you could own a little piece of history!” 

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The Reconstructors 

“Travel into the Future Solve Medicinal Mysteries from the past”  Developed at Rice University

Added: 11 November 2002
Reviewer’s Note:
A series of learning games, eg Episode 1 is about pain and pain relief

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The Workhouse

“Workhouse is a word that often conjures up the harsh and squalid world of Oliver Twist. The workhouse could be a grim and brutal place, but its story is also a fascinating mix of social history, politics, economics and architecture.www.workhouses.org.uk is dedicated to the workhouse – its buildings, its inmates, its staff and administrators, and even its poets…”

Added: 30 October 2002
Reviewer’s Note:
An ongoing project building into a comprehensive educational resource about the workhouse.

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Becoming human

“Journey through the story of human evolution in a broadband documentary experience.”

Added: 19 September 2002
Reviewer’s Note:
Won a Webby Award this year for best Science site - almost like watching a TV documentary.  There is also Learning Center for educational institutions.

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Theban Mapping Project

“Since its inception in 1978, the Theban Mapping Project (TMP, now based at the American University in Cairo) has been working to prepare a comprehensive archaeological database of Thebes. With its thousands of tombs and temples, Thebes is one of the world’s most important archaeological zones.”

Added: 26 August  2002
Reviewer’s Note:
One of Yahoo’s Picks of the Week

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Exploratorium

“Housed within the walls of San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts, the Exploratorium is a collage of over 650 science, art, and human perception exhibits. The Exploratorium is a leader in the movement to promote the museum as an educational center.”

Added: 21 June 2002
Reviewer’s Note:
Winner of the 6th Annual Webby Awards (2002) for Education

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calculator-in-the-URL

“The urlcalculator demonstrates the weirdest URL-tricks. YOU change the hostname to the function and arguments you want; and you get the result on the homepage of the site”

Added: 30 May 2002
Reviewer’s Note:
add, subtract, multiply, divide in the URL line of your browser!

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How to be a gardener

“This online resource [from the BBC], prepared in collaboration with the Royal Horticultural Society, will bring life to your learning. There will be eight modules in all; each one will go live after an episode of the television series. You can work through them, or simply dip in, it’s up to you. The modules cover everything you need to know to give you a great start in gardening.” Alan Titchmarsh, BBC.

Added: 27 May 2002
Reviewer’s Note:
Register to store information, track your progress and quiz results

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Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

 

Added: 17 March 2002
Reviewer’s Note:
Test yourself or work through a short presentation on CPR.  Note Flash 5 plugin required.

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IEEE Virtual Museum

“For hundreds of years, engineers have been finding new ways of using electricity to revolutionise the way we work, play, learn and communicate.  Here you’ll explore the history of the technologies, find out how they work, and learn about some of the people who invented them.”

Added: 7 March 2002
Reviewer’s Note:
“Guided tours” and “exhibits” rather than “courses”

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Jheronimus Bosch Internet Game 

“an adventure game on the life and works of the painter Hieronymous Bosch”

Added: 7 March 2002
Reviewer’s Note:
The whole site won the EuroPrix 2001 - and is rather special

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Audio tutorial of survival Chinese

“Developed by Haiwang Yuan with Remy Guo”

Added: 23 February 2002
Reviewer’s Note:
A collection of useful Chinese phrases for Greetings, Shopping, Dining, Travelling, etc

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Chisenbop tutorial

“Chisenbop is a method of doing basic arithmetic using your fingers. It is attributed to the Korean tradition, but it is probably extrememly old, as the soroban and abacus use very similar methods. Probably these other devices were derived from finger counting.” Andy Harris, Indiana University

Added: 23 February 2002
Reviewer’s Note:
A simple one-page tutorial with a couple of little features that make it special: an opportunity to practice and self-assess yourself; and some extra streaming media lessons.

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Learn to ballroom dance online

“To begin learning how to ballroom dance, click on the category of your choice. Each category contains lessons listed in order from least difficult to advanced. If you are a beginner, we recommend that you start with the Ballroom Basics. From there, you can progress to other categories of interest. If you are at an intermediate or advanced level, we recommend that you review the basics section as well before moving on. It will introduce you to the format of our online dance tutorial. Happy dancing!” dancetv.com

Added: 15 February 2002
Reviewer’s Note:
An example of how to learn a skill online

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Virtual Typewriter Museum

“The typewriter is one of the great inventions of 19th Century communications technology. Between the 1860s and 1920s engineers, inventors and even carpenters invested all their creativity in the development of the ultimate writing machine. This virtual museum, that is based on private collections from around the world, is a tribute to their ingenuity.”

Added: 6 February 2002
Reviewer’s Note:
A great online resource and well designed

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Britain’s rocky past

“an animation and interactive timeline featuring 4600 million years of dramatic continental drift, fossil life and rocks.”

Added: 25 January 2002
Reviewer’s Note:
One of the interactive resources produced by BBC Education

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What is a print?

 

Added: 24 January 2002
Reviewer’s Note:
This website and kiosk project from the Museum of Modern Art  (MOMA) has won a 2002SXSW award

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The Great Buildings Collection

“Welcome to the leading architecture site on the web, GreatBuildings.com. This gateway to architecture around the world and across history documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, with 3D models, photographic images and architectural drawings, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more, for famous designers and structures of all kinds.”

Added: 12 January 2002
Reviewer’s Note:
And a nicely designed site too.

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24 Hour Museum: the national virtual museum

“The 24 Hour Museum is an independent charity funded by the DCMS through Resource. Our aim is to promote UK museums galleries and heritage attractions and develop new audiences. The site was launched in 1999 as a partnership project between the mda and the Campaign for Museums.”

Added: 3 January 2002
Reviewer’s Note:
Over 2,500 museums, galleries and heritage attractions

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A short course in choosing a digital camera

“If you are in the market for a digital camera, here’s the guide you’ve been looking for. It takes you around and through the digital camera so you know how it works and what its  features are used for. It has hundreds of links to the best sources and products so you can learn even more. I Hope you enjoy it!” ShortCourses.com

Added: 26 December 2001
Reviewer’s Note:
Online courses don’t need to be sophisticated to be of value.  Here’s a simply produced course using just text and graphics - yet functional

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Haggis Hurling

“This module introduces haggis hurling - its history, rules and the ‘hurling method” !!!!

Updated: 8 May 2005
Reviewer’s Note:
A well produced example from Learning Channel

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Dive and Discover

“Join scientists as they dive to the mid-ocean ridge thousands of meters deep.” Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute

Added: 2000
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Fosterparentscope

This is the same material used in the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services’ foster parent classes, and adapted for the web.

Added: 2000
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How to screw in a lightbulb

 

Added: 2000
Reviewer’s Note:
a (sample) interactive tutorial from Sage Interactive.  It uses Shockwave and demonstrates the elements of an instructionally designed tutorial using a tongue in cheek example

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Inner Learning Online

“Welcome to inner exploration of Human Anatomy and Automobiles. Each topic has animations, 100’s of graphics, and thousands of descriptive links.”

Added: 2000
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Learn English Online For Free

“We have grammar, vocabulary and speaking pages, learning games, a free newsletter and an English FAQ.”

Added: 2000
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Learn Spanish

 

Added: 2000
Reviewer’s Note:
A free online tutorial, verb drills, vocabulary practice, travel helper, cultural notes, etc

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Piano on the Net

“This is a free Public Educational Service brought to you by Clinton Clark, The Art Department, and JTM MultiMedia, Inc.” pianonanny.com

Added: 2000
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Racewalking 101

“An introduction to one of the best sports and fitness regimes most people have never heard of.

Added: 2000
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The Symphony: An interactive guide

“A journey into the great composers’ finest symphonies

Added: 2000
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World War 1: Trenches on the Web

An Internet History of the Great War. “These pages contain information on the people, places, and events that comprised one of the worst calamities of modern history. Entire kingdoms were to vanish in the clash. The map makers of the world would be busy indeed!

Added: 2000 
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Barnes and Noble University

“We have combined your passion for knowledge with our love of books, music, software, and video to bring you the future in learning.”

Added: 2000
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Bloomberg University

“All of our courses are instructor-led, taught by respected names in the financial industry. Unlike costly, multi-day investor education seminars, all of our courses are completely free.”

Added: 2000
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hp Learning Center

Hewlett Packard’s e-learning services

Added: 2000
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Motorola University

Worldwide solutions to help you achieve sustainable business performance improvement

Added: 2000
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Oracle Learning Network

“The OLN - Professional Subscription is a 100% online education offering designed to help you, the Oracle IT professional, stay abreast of the latest from Oracle.”

Added: 2000
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