Websites on Education-Related Topics
Websites on Education-Related Topics
1. Searchable Databases on Education-Related Topics
The Educator's Reference Desk includes Resource Guides, Lesson Plans, Question Archives, and Search GEM and ERIC, with FAQs for commonly asked educational inquiries.
Theory into Practice Data Base
TIP is an excellent database offering brief summaries of fifty major theories of learning and instruction.
2. Student Success
SBCC Student Success Project 1998-2000
Choose Student Success, and then a year to view SBCC instructors' work on integrating factors relevant to Student Success into classroom organization and lesson plans.
SBCC's Teacher Hub Resources is an extensive collection of online pedagogical and learning resources for teachers to use to foster student success.
3. Learning Style Inventories and Information
Learning style inventory with lots of good study skill tips by Catherine Jester and programmed by Suzanne Miller of Diablo Valley College.
Felder's Index of Learning styles (ILS). This is based on Kolb's Learning Styles but introduces new aspects and uses somewhat different labels: active/reflective, sensing/intuitive, visual/verbal, and sequential/global.
4. Study Skill Information
Virginia Tech, Cook Counseling Center, has put together an excellent site of learning strategies, study skills, and self-help advice for students.
University of South Australia's study skills tips cover reading and writing.
Bucks County Community College's Concepts of Learning and Effective Study Skills
5. Cognition and Critical Thinking
Bill Huitt's website on cognition, psychology and critical thinking. The link below goes to the critical thinking page, but links to Bloom's Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain, and many more education-related topics.
Two tracks are available: college/university and primary/secondary. Richard Paul, Ph.D. and Linda Elder are the directors of the Center for Critical Thinking, Sonoma State University. Their website is extensive, and is full of excellent teaching ideas, explanations, and resources.
William Peirce's "Teaching Thinking Online" outlines most of the major learning approaches that are considered important today when designing instruction.
6. Moral Education
Piaget, Kohlberg and Gilligan discussed, as well as moral vs social convention.
7. Emotional Intelligence
8. Collaborative Learning: Group Work and Study Teams, from Tools for Teaching, by Barabara Gross Davis, UC Berkeley
9. Resources for Distance Learning Courses
Online courses designed for college-level students are shared by faculty authors.
10. General Site with Wide-ranging Information on Education
This site is full of fascinating topics on learning and education, including theories about how people learn, curriculum, instruction, assessment, and organizational theory. Ideas on educational reform are provided, in addition to some creative and effective links to cutting edge experimental teaching ideas.
11. Website Accessibility
WebXACT is a free online service to test the accessibility of a webpage. The Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 508 require accessibility to educational materials and online resources by persons of low vision or who are blind. In addition, many people with learning disabilities use a screen reader, and it is important to see if tables and other special features are accessible (i.e., can be read by a screen reader).