As you begin building your online course, you may want to tap into some of these
resources:
SAS Curriculum, http://www.sascurriculumpathways.com/,
An online resource for students and teachers, SAS Curriculum
Pathways provides standards-based content in all the core disciplines,
grades 8-14.
Contact Lee Ellen Harmer for free access to these resources,
LeeEllen.Harmer@sas.com.
Hippocampus, (of the National Repository of Online Courses)
http://hippocampus.org,
HippoCampus offers multimedia lessons and course materials to help
you with your instruction, homework, and studies. You can browse
multimedia lessons or complete courses, and find help with the topics
covered in popular textbooks.
Contact Terri Rowenhorst,
trowenhorst@montereyinstitute.org, for more information
regarding these resources.
Merlot, http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm,
Putting Educational Innovations Into Practice
Find peer reviewed
online teaching and learning materials. Share advice and expertise
about education with expert colleagues. Be recognized for your
contributions to quality education.
Marco Polo, http://www.thinkfinity.org/home.aspx
FREE lesson plans and educational resources
MIT OPENCOURSEWARE, http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm
MIT offers 1900 free online courses
MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all
MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a
permanent MIT activity.
Open Culture, http://www.openculture.com/
The best free cultural andn educational media on the web. A great free
resource for online learning
Academic Earth, http://www.academicearth.org/
Free online video courses from leading universities.
Straightline, http://www.straighterline.com/
Knock out your required college courses online.
Receive personal, live instruction and earn college credits for your college
degree.
Iowa AEA developed resources,
Math, http://currweb.aea11.k12.ia.us:8080/4DACTION/wSearchPage
Science, http://currweb.aea11.k12.ia.us:8080/URLCurriculumpage/Science.html
Language Arts,
http://currweb.aea11.k12.ia.us:8080/URLCurriculumpage/language%20arts.html
Social Studieshttp://currweb.aea11.k12.ia.us:8080/URLCurriculumpage/Social%20Studies.html
Technologyhttp://currweb.aea11.k12.ia.us:8080/URLCurriculumpage/technology.html
Iowa Public Television, http://www.iptv.org/education/
Iowa public Television is involved with a larger content projection through
PBS which will make additional content available to schools. They have
professionals creating content and will be doing a pilot soon to have
teachers evaluate this content in the classroom.
Please let me know what other resources you have found so that I can add them
to this list.
Arlan Thorson, School Liaison
Iowa Learning Online
athorson@iowalearningonline.org
515.238.4765, ILO cell phone