On Course Self Assessment "Take the self-assessment online to identify behaviors and beliefs you may wish to change to achieve more of your potential in college and in life." Skills4Study Palgrave Macmillan Ltd England has developed a comprehensive higher education series in five categories:  study skills, personal development planning, student life, subject areas, and handy tips. Teach with Movies Learning with the movies English Works & Reading exercises Gallaudet University, Washington, DC WordChamp® vocabulary builder On-Line Lessons - Reading Skills by Interlink Language Centers Search Engine Colossus: International Directory of Search Engines International Archive of Education Data sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the United States and other nations On-line Short Term Memory Games, Grades K-12. Sonic Memorial Project: a K-12 social studies curriculum around the events of 9/11 and the World Trade towers. Consists of an audio archive of files with curriculum. English Learning Center Study Zone Grammar, reading, vocabulary, and games at five levels of learning English by the Univerity of Victoria, Canada On-line English pronunciation and listening exercises & on-line interactive materials New Okanagan College, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada American English Pronunciation Practice and other interesting resources: word games, puzzles, quizzes, exercises, slang, proverbs for students of English	Learning support: Handling your Psychiatric Disability in Work and School The Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation is affiliated with Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and the Department of Rehabilitation Counseling at Boston University, includes a page of links at Reasonable Accommodations for People with Psychiatric Disabilities with practical information about reasonable accommodations for people who have psychiatric disabilities The Counseling Center Village Includes a listing of university and college counseling centers Support 4 Learning a very comprehensive, well-organized compendium of resources and research for learners and educators How to Study Out of Chemeteka Community College by Lucy McDonald.  Includes a handy list of links by academic area/subject as in how to study for .... (English, chemistry, accounting, etc.) Online Writing Lab (OWL) Purdue University. With a great list of handouts organized by category. University of Cardiff (Wales) School of Engineering's "The world's largest list of Web page links of information specifically intended for students" with over 1000 listed by topic. Our students favorite handouts University of Texas Learning Center Student Counseling Virtual Pamphlet Collection of the University of Chicago. Quite extensive! Study Strategies Homepage University of Minnesota-Duluth Study Skills Library Cal Poly at San Luis Obispo, CA Improve Your Studying Skills University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill LearningCommons University of Guelph, Guelph Ontario Canada Learning Strategies Database Center for the Advancement of Learning, Muskingum College Academic Advancement Center Study Tips Includes a grade point average calculator. Ohio University. Florida Virtual High School (FLVS): Provides virtual K-12 education solutions to students throughout the country.
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GEM: The Gateway to Educational Materials™ "The key to one-stop, any-stop access to high quality lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources on the Internet!" "The Open Directory Project (ODP) "is the most comprehensive human edited directory of the Web, compiled by a vast global community of volunteer editors. The ODP powers core directory services for some the most popular portals and search engines on the Web, including AOL Search, Netscape Search, Google, Lycos, DirectHit, and HotBot, and hundreds of others." WEBAim: a primer including key principles of accessible website design. "Most accessibility principles can be implemented very easily and will not impact the overall "look and feel" of your web site." CAST: Research & Development in Universal Design for Learning : draws on the latest brain research and multimedia technology toward more effective professional development, policy and practice, products, and publications;researches and develops ways to support all learners according to their individual strengths and needs. SMETE Digital Library is a dynamic online library and portal of services by the SMETE Open Federation for teachers and students. Scout Report: " has focused on developing better tools and services for finding, filtering, and presenting online information and metadata" since 1994. Located on the University of Wisconsin-Madison's campus. Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved." Curriki: A global education wiki. The Global Education & Learning Community with a " mission .. to improve education around the world by empowering teachers, students and parents with user-created, open source curricula, and it's all free!" The mission is to improve education around the world by empowering teachers, students and parents with free and open source curricula.	A Quick Guide to Writing Learning Objectives by Don Clark Designing Viable Assessment Plans Evaluating Assessment Strategies by the American Psychological Association SREB: The Southern Regional Education Board is the U.S. first interstate compact for education, founded in 1948. With 16 member states, SREB works to achieve 12 Challenge to Lead Goals for Education in the region. Link is to a .pdf file of guidelines to help its states create high-quality online courses SREB: Educational Technology Cooperative. (n.d.). Standards for Quality Online Teaching. In SREB: Southern Regional Education Board . Retrieved January 8, 2007, from ISTE: The International Society for Technology in Education "provides leadership and service to improve teaching, learning, and school leadership by advancing the effective use of technology in PK–12 and teacher education. Home of the National Educational Technology Standards (NETS), the Center for Applied Research in Educational Technology (CARET), and the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) Sharable Courseware Object Reference Model (SCORM) "is a suite of technical standards that enable web-based learning systems to find, import, share, reuse, and export learning content in a standardized way.... SCORM is written primarily for vendors and toolmakers who build Learning Management Systems and learning content authoring tools so they know what they need to do to their products to conform with SCORM technically. A "Designer's Guide" for implementing SCORM is in the works. Sharable Courseware Object Reference Model (SCORM): "a compilation of technical specifications for web-based e-learning. The SCORM standards are governed and published by the Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative (ADL). Among SCORM goals are to enable interoperability, accessibility and reusability of web-based learning content for industry, government, and academia"