Blended Learning Resources

A free, open collection of college course material hosted by Saylor Foundation. It is designed to replicate an entire college curriculum with freely available course materials, although they do not offer college credit. (Eventually they will to host all materials on their own site so they can ensure long-term stewardship, but in currently some is available only through links to other sites). Currently the courses consist largely of recorded lectures and readings. There are a few quizzes, but few interactive...

The online version of the sixth edition of this print resource has some great interactive tutorials and exercises for both ESL and non-ESL students. My favorite, for example, was an exercise targeting wordiness issues, which has students practice eliminating as many elements from a sentence as possible without altering the meaning. I always found this a difficult problem to help students with (in my non-writing courses), and I could see this as a way to give a targeted exercise to a student who...