WeBWorK is an open-source online homework system with a library of homework problems for math and science courses. Their National Problem Library currently contains over 20,000 problems directed primarily at lower level undergraduate courses, with a few more advanced options. WebWorK is community-oriented, and claims that they have over 450 institutional users. The math and statistics courses featured on the...
Serendip is an independent site partnering with faculty at multiple colleges and universities around the world. Happy exploring!
Blended Learning Resources
Quizlet is a free website that allow students and teachers to create and search sets of notes, which can then be used as flashcards, tested on automatically generated quizzes, or studied through quick games. It has a "Learn" feaure which allows students to track their progress and identify what questions they've missed, plus a section offering ways for teachers to implement Quizlet for their classes.
UCD Teaching and Learning is a program out of University College Dublin focused on providing resources to enhance teaching and learning using evidence-based methods. Essentially, hard data-driven research as much as possible to design, implement, and evaluate their resources. Blended learning is not their major concern, but the Resources section of their website offers some solid, web-based resources and tools, particularly with regard to assessment. The resources are broken up into topic areas phrased...
BioBook is a Next Generation Learning Challenge project out of Wake Forest University, where professors sought to reformulate the intro-level biology textbooks into something that students could understand - and would actually use.
The Next Generation Learning Challenge is a program designed to improve eduation in the United States by, in part, leveraging emerging technologies. Towards this end, NGLC supports a number of projects (including us) which are studying the opportunities and challenges of the blended classroom. They have also created a series of video profiles, showcasing what...
One of Next Generation Learning Challenge's profiles featured Thinkwell, a multimedia company which creates online video textbooks.
Profiles of Next Generation Learning: Thinkwell from NextGenLC (NGLC) on...
edSurge does many things well - it aggregates news, opinion pieces, reviews, upcoming events, product reports. The Edtech Index is currently in its beta stages. The index calls itself a "community-driven database of edtech products" and hosts a number of products in diverse categories including Curriculum Products, Classroom Needs, and College Resources. Several of these categories are specifically tailored towards K-12 audiences and classrooms. In fact, that majority of the available resources are geared...
MERLOT, or "Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching" is a free and open online community targeted towards those involved in higher education. Their mission is to increase both the quality and quantity of peer-reviewed OERs so that faculty can easily reuse and recycle the materials into their own courses. What makes MERLOT unique among the available sites which currate educational resources is their emphasis on peer review and the emphasis on community which accompanies it. Every...
You might have read the blended learning post on FREE - Federal Resources for Educational Excellence from February. The old version of FREE provided searchable access to materials developed by federal agencies that might have classroom applications. As in the original version, the updated site is searchable by educational standard, subject matter, and grade-appropriate level. The new beta version of FREE...
The National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education, better known as "NITLE," is an organization and network of liberal arts institutions focused on strategically integrating technology into the liberal arts mission. NITLE provides its member institutions with consultation, models for cross-campus collaboration, and testing grounds for new ideas and approaches. It's three major categories are Shared Academics, Shared Libraries, and Shared Practice. Within each category, NITLE hosts seminars,...