Bridging Spanish language barriers in Southern schools
These articles provide background on Latino immigrants in North Carolina, administrative challenges in binational education, and strategies through which teachers can build on what Latino students bring to their classrooms to create a learning environment
The Importance of Fractions
This video shows how we use fractions in everyday life. She shows what a fraction looks like and how to convert them to percentages.
Field trips in context
Opportunities abound in North Carolina for hands-on interdisciplinary learning experiences.
The secret cultural institution in your very own school: The school library
A variety of best practices and imaginative ideas the school librarian can use to create an environment where students fuse together required learning with learning that is driven by individual interest.
When you don't have all the answers
Linda Dow suggests freeing yourself from the necessity to be the eternal expert and describes techniques for sharing the responsibility for learning and teaching alongside your students.
Why inquiry?
The rationale for using discovery learning methods in teaching science.
Japanese Kanji and Kana
Game-based e-learning course in Japanese vocabulary. Learn Kanji and Kana and words made from those Kanji and Kana in a logical cumulative manner. Uses matching and spelling game software and cloze exercises. 500 Kanji and 3,000 compounds. Site is still under development, (content is frequently added).
Courseware : Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence : Course lectures, hours 42. There are 11 pdf files, total 562 pages. Topics : Introduction to AI; Problem Solving - Search and Control Strategies; Knowledge Representation Issues - Predicate Logic, Rules; Reasoning System - Symbolic, Statistical; Game Playing; Learning; Expert ...
Web design at Wikiversity
Collection of lots of learning activities, such as CSS Challenges, Javascript Challenges and others which can be used in a group environment or on your own.
Math Bootcamp Wiki
This wiki page list the activities, student projects and journal reflections from the Math Bootcamp July 6-9, 2010 in Portola Valley, CA. The Boot Camp is an intensive, one-week program focused on accelerating the learning of some of the San Francisco Peninsula’s high potential young minds. It is directed ...
Language Learning Unit on the topic of ICT, Security
This is an English monolingual language learning unit in the field of ICT, providing vocabulary and glossary on topics such as cybercrime, Internet security and privacy, types of viruses and malware.
UCDOER
UCDOER has been established by UCD Teaching and Learning to host a number of open educational resources, these materials are derived from its collection of programmes and workshops. Those with a teaching function within Higher Education may wish to engage with this content as module/s within UCD’s Graduate ...
MW-TELL
MW-TELL Project aims to improve Language Learning instruction by expanding the resources for teaching and learning in Vocational Education Training (VET).
MW-TELL Project intends to promote access to mobile-supported training services for the provision of on-demand Lifelong Language Learning, beyond ...
Chain Mail
This learning project is about chain mail. It is also called chain maille. We can do armor and jewelry with chain mail. The two have many things in common, such as how to make ring, how to close them, and some assembly patterns. The difference is in the material used, the size and gauge of the ring, and shape that is built with the ring.
Child Health
Welcome to the Child Health Course. This is one of the continuing professional development courses offered by AMREF through Distance Education. This course has been revised and contains the most current concepts such as integrated management of childhood diseases (IMCI). The course is designed to expose you as a health worker to that part of medicine concerned with the health and wellbeing of children and aims at updating your knowledge, attitudes and skills to enable you provide quality health
Commonwealth of Learning Copyright Audit
To a significant extent, copyright law governs the production, dissemination and consumption of knowledge and culture. In an "information society" it is particularly important to ensure that the gates of learning are kept wide open. It is in this context that an examination of copyright law with respect to education becomes crucial. When performing an audit of copyright law, it is essential to keep in mind international treaty obligations: particularly, the Berne Convention, the Agreement on tra
eXe User Manual
The eLearning XHTML editor (eXe) is an authoring environment to assist teachers and academics in the design, development and publishing of web-based learning and teaching materials without the need to become proficient in HTML or complicated web-publishing applications. eXe Authoring window showing a "Reading Activity" iDevice for the Wikipedia article on e-learningThe Web is a revolutionary educational tool because it presents teachers and learners with a technology that simultaneously provides
Networked learning
This topic will assist you in developing online communication and Internet learning skills. It is based on the principles of networked learning where individuals establish an online identity and formulate relationships with other people and information to communicate and develop knowledge.
Various OER developments from Otago Polytechnic on Wikieducator
Otago Polytechnic is located in Dunedin, New Zealand and has recently adopted the CC By license as its default copyright license. Is developing learning and assessment activities in Wikieducator, with media distributed across Blip.tv, youtube, archive.org, blogs etc. Distribution is gradually being centralised around the Wikieducator developments. Work in progress
Montessori Activities: Maths
Preliminary math activities to promote learning about numbers, size and colors. Indirect Preparation for numeracy which is an awareness of cardinal numbers, ordinal numbers, numerals, one to one correspondence, sequencing and tally counting. Also concepts of size, length, area and volume. These activities are suitable for beginning mathematicians as well as infants, toddlers and 3 - 6 year olds.
