College and University e-Learning Showcase
This page provides a showcase for a wide range of examples of online courses and other online learning solutions that have been developed in Universities and Colleges and that are visible on the Internet. Some are "traditional" course repositories of lecture notes and resources, others are more innovative online projects.
Articles in date order, most recent first.
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from blackboard learning to online education - my eLearning journey from west to east.
Added:16 November 2007
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Booligan.com - Trade and swap textbooks for college student and other campus.
"Booligan.com is a free website for college students to trade textbooks and swap with other students from their campus. Got a book you're finished with ADVERTISE IT Chances are, there's a handful of students who need that very book next semester."
Added: 27 July 2007
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Covers US, Canada, UK, and Australia
Healthcare Education & Training
"Directory of Healthcare-related education programs. Search from a list of medical specializations, campus-based/distance-learning programs, etc."
Added: 31 May 2007
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"ICoN is a Consortium of 23 Italian Universities aimed at promoting Italian language and culture all over the world through the Internet. Through its training portal ICoN offers an online Degree program in Italian language and culture for citizens abroad (Italian Degree, I level) and online Italian language courses of different levels and for different audiences. "
Added: 04 May 2007
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E-learning for European Languages and Literatures
"The ELLEU project has designed an organizational model for the teaching of Italian Language, Literature and Culture within the European Union countries. It constitutes a university level study platform integrating e-learning with traditional methods in a Europe-wide perspective. The model can be re-used for the teaching of other languages and literatures."
Added: 04 May 2007
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Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary
"Over 3000 terms defined. This dictionary is primarily aimed at supporting secondary and tertiary students who are studying business and commerce related subjects."
Added: 22 November 2006
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The definitions of terms that have been included are most of the major subject specific words that students will come across in secondary level accounting, business studies and economics courses.
ESP-C English for Specific Purposes-Chemistry
"ESP:C is an English language course designed to help you learn the specialised English used in chemistry and develop the language skills required by professional chemists."
Added: 10 October 2006
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The project was supported by the Leonardo da Vinci programme.
"Find Periodic Table element facts."
Added: 27 June 2006
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Other chemistry resources available here
The Virtual Anaesthesia Machine
"A transparent reality simulation."
Added: 10 June 2006
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Register to access the simulation
"The iLecture System (also known as Lectopia) is the leading lecture capture and delivery solution in Australia. The iLecture service is offered by the Arts Multimedia Centre and is available to all staff at the University of Western Australia."
Added: 27 May 2006
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Through the iLecture System, audio and visuals from traditional face-to-face lectures are automatically recorded and processed into a variety of streaming media formats. Students can access the recordings 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
"Flashed teaching resources in geology from University of Tromso, Norway"
Added: 11 May 2006
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Resources available in English, Norwegian and Russian
"British History Online is the digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust, we aim to support academic and personal users around the world in their learning, teaching and research."
Added: 17 April 2006
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"With so much material now being published on the world wide web in either un-reviewed form, or in fee-based services, the IHR has shown its commitment to promoting the study of history by publishing these priceless resources for their historical value, cross-searchable, in one place and free of charge."
"These multimedia modules (click on menu above right) give a brief overview of relativity - they present the main ideas. Inevitably, you will have questions. So the related links (below) give more complete explanations"
Added: 15 December 2005
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Some animations require the Flash 6 Plugin. The multimedia modules have animations and film clips
"Examples of a range of e-learning resources used for veterinary undergraduate teaching and lifelong learning. Includes an emergency case simulator, streaming video, flash animators and complete courses."
Added: 29 July 2005
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From the Royal Veterinary College in London
"A game that helps learners test their knowledge about bacteria and gives them practice with application of number." By Jon Kent and Martyn Hulme, at the Ferl website
Added: 28 July 2005
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A game created in PowerPoint.
"What is Clinical Skills Online? The Clinical Skills Online (CSO) is a project aimed at providing online videos demonstrating core clinical skills common to a wide range of medical and health-based courses. The clinical skills videos on this site have been created at the 'lowest common denominator' level for a host of medical and healthcare related disciplines, with a view to sharing these with the wider community."
Added: 22 July 2005
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These videos are freely available to anyone using them for educational, personal and non-commercial purposes only.
Law, the Internet and Society: Technology and the Future of Ideas.
"This course originally formed part of the Relevant Knowledge undergraduate programme at the Open University. The university has now taken this course out of its academic programme, but the authors have decided to make the material available to a wider public under a Creative Commons licence."
Added: 16 May 2005
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Simply register and login
"aims to construct lasting e-learning structures in the Baltic Sea Area, so that in the future the Baltic Sea countries have equal access to academic education on-line."
Added: 5 February 2005
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The "Baltic Sea Virtual Campus" is a project with partners from almost the whole Baltic Sea region, which is part-financed by the European Union (European Regional Development Fund) within the BSR INTERREG III B programme.
"Developed by Baruch's Computing and Technology Centre and Kognito Solutions LLCw ith the cooperation of Baruch's Stan Ross Department of Accountancy."
Added: 9 November 2004
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Baruch College is part of CUNY, The City University of New York
"These pages illustrate and document 3 Prototypes of investigations into the educational potential of networked game environments. The work carried out by the International Centre for Digital Content (ICDC) with the help of other partners such as Nesta Future Lab and Criterion Software explores supporting collaborative skills, and learning scientific methodologies "
Added: 28 July 2004
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"V-mule is a series of non-violent, multiplayer videogame prototypes that explore the potential learning aspects of these technologies. While the aims of the game are overtly to support the development of children’s thinking and collaboration skills, the scenarios into which they are immersed are more typical of commercial videogames than of traditional ‘edutainment’. Each prototype builds on the lessons learnt from the preceding ones, providing a far more informed and focused iterative production process."
WebCT Exemplary Course Project
"WebCT's 2004 Exemplary Course Project has singled out courses for displaying best practices in course design, interaction/collaboration, assessment/evaluation, meaningful technology use and learner support."
Added: 12 July 2004
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Winners of the 2002 and 2003 WebCT Course Project also available to view
Visual interpretation of the Table of Elements
"Murray Robertson has produced a striking new representation of the chemical elements drawing on the symbolism that surrounds them from the commonplace, nickel in baked beans, to the mythological, Oppenheimer's invocation of Shiva as the genie behind the destructive power of the element plutonium"
Added: 15 February 2004
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This site was a winner of the Scientific American Sci-Tech Web Awards 2003
Updated: 28 September 2003
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this is the 2002 (PDF) version of this very successful and useful online course about learning on the web
"IVIMEDS is a worldwide partnership of 36 leading edge medical schools and institutions from 15 countries"
Added: 2 August 2003
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The International Virtual Medical School (IVIMEDS) programme being developed will offer a student-centred blend of e-learning and face-to-face learning experiences in Partner Institutions, hospitals and other clinical settings
"The Molecular Expressions Museum of Microscopy features historical microscopes ranging from sixteenth century Dutch designs through the magnificent microscopes of eighteenth and nineteenth century Europe to the latest microprocessor-powered models available today."
Added: 24 April 2003
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Website developed by the Optical Microscopy Division of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, a joint venture of The Florida State University, the University of Florida, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory
Supercourse: Epidemiology, the Internet and Global Health
"This course is designed to provide an overview on epidemiology and the Internet for medical and health related students around the world."
Added: 19 February 2003
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an online repository of more than 1000 free online lectures
Ductus: An online course in paleograhy
""Ductus", from the Latin ducere, "to lead" is a web-based, interactive multimedia program. It is designed to facilitate the teaching of paleography, in particular, the study of the history of western European handwriting."
Added: 29 January 2003
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Includes manuscript images, videos, 14-session course in paleography and codicology
LAAPhysics (Learn Anytime Anywhere Physics)
"is a physics education research and development project. Our goal is a pedagogically driven open-ended laboratory physics courseware product that promotes model-based learning."
Added: 19 December 2002
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A write-up about this project appears in The Chronicle of Higher Education (http://chronicle.com/free/2002/12/2002121601t.htm)
The HyperTextbook: Modern English Grammar
Written by Daniel Kies at the Department of English
Added: 11 August 2002
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A comprehensive hypertext book for an academic English course
"I wrote this book for anyone with an interest in chaos, fractals, non-linear dynamics, or mathematics in general. It's a moderately heavy piece of work, requiring a bit of mathematical knowledge, but it is definitely not aimed at mathematicians."
Added: 11 August 2002
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A hypertext book written and produced back in 1995
"At ExploreMath we believe the real power of the Internet lies in its ability to bring educators and students together in ways that both meet instructional needs and harness our collective creativity."
Added: 27 May 2002
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lesson plans, activities and forums
"These applets enable you to study simple physical systems in a playful way. They are idealizations of realistic scenarios, which follow the proper equations that also govern the real experimental systems." MSU LectureOnline
Added: 27 May 2002
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Exercises for the classroom
David Lane is an Associate Professor of Psychology, Statistics, and Administration at Rice University
Added: 27 May 2002
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A comprehensive resource on statistics
"The Who Killed William Robinson? web site is split into five main sections ... Home, The Murder, Historical Contexts, The Archives, and Interpretations" John Lutx, History Dept, University of Victoria
Added: 27 May 2002
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Won NaWeb 2001 Private entry
Dept of Zoology, University of Guelph
Added: 27 May 2002
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Won NaWeb 2001 Best Single Course.
"The following samples were created completely with Lectora Publisher for Palm OS or Pocket PC."
Added: 12 May 2002
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These samples also include tests and collect the results.
"Exploring diverse events from a fresh viewpoint, it examines the diversity of Renaissance Italian healthcare, whether or not a Portuguese Jewish doctor tried to poison Queen Elizabeth I, and the methods Gutenberg used to create movable type. A Marxist historian focuses on the peasants, not the rulers, and a feminist historian looks at how women worked within societal constraints." Open2.net (BBC/OU site)
Added: 12 March 2002
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Based on the TV series "Renaissance Secrets"
Clinical Antibiotic Tutorial Site
"The Clinical Antibiotic Tutorial Site is a multimedia interactive course developed as part of the McGill Medical Informatics project. This site covers all the major antibiotics. It is intended only as a review of antibiotic pharmacology, and it should not be used as a treatment guide."
Added: 23 February 2002
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Site requires Shockwave
"Written by Professor Carrasco and his students, the E-Book provides basic and accessible discussion of key concepts relating to international finance and development. Coverage includes the roles of the IMF and the World Bank in a globalized economy as well as the Mexican and Asian financial crises. Bibliographies are included"
Added: 22 February 2002
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As part of the University of Iowa's Global Studies Program, Enrique R. Carrasco and his students have produced an electronic book on International Finance and Development
Glaze Teach: A course in basic Glaze Technology for Beginners
"Glaze Teach is a free, self paced, instructional resource which aims to help you to come to grips with the basic principles of ceramic glaze technology. The course was originally written for the students in the Ceramics Department at the School of Art, Otago Polytechnic in Dunedin, New Zealand."
Added: 8 February 2002
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Thanks to Jeremy at Visual Arts Dept, University of Gloucestershire, UK for recommending this course
"Sociology for people who have better things to do and like to get out a bit. There is nothing too complicated here."
Added: 3 February 2002
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Produced by a lecturer at City of Bristol College
Macromedia Higher Education Showcase
Added: 23 January 2002
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Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric
"This online rhetoric, provided by Dr. Gideon Burton of Brigham Young University, is a guide to the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric. Sometimes it is difficult to see the forest (the big picture) of rhetoric because of the trees (the hundreds of Greek and Latin terms naming figures of speech, etc.) within rhetoric. This site is intended to help beginners, as well as experts, make sense of rhetoric, both on the small scale (definitions and examples of specific terms) and on the large scale (the purposes of rhetoric, the patterns into which it has fallen historically as it has been taught and practiced for 2000+ years)."
Added: 18 January 2002
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This site has been in existence for some years and has won a number of awards.
"Students studying calculus, linear algebra, and other mathematics subjects at Virginia Tech are engaged in an exciting new way to learn. From the outset, they know a course's learning goals, plus important learning milestones they must meet. They set their own schedules. They learn at their own pace. They receive immediate feedback on quizzes and problems." They explore alternative approaches to learning challenging material. They interact one-on-one with faculty and other students. They master coursework as well as -- and often better -- than in conventional classrooms. Virginia Tech students are able to do these things and more thanks to a bold experiment called the Math Emporium, a place where technology and teaching are changing the way students learn and succeed. It's an experience that's right in step with the kind of learning they will encounter in the workplace when they graduate."
Added: 16 January 2002
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Also take a look at the Visitors site, where you find further background information about the Emporium.
"A companion to the 4th Century B.C. Chinese strategy text translated by Professor Smith and colleagues, this web site contains all the associated scholarly apparatus to help explore the history and culture of 4th Century China. In addition, it includes audio pronunciations of the Chinese as well as the English translation, and non-linear access to the text and accompanying materials." Kidder Smith, Asian Studies Program, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, USA
Added: 30 December 2001
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Another well-produced project from Bowdoin College.
"An educational role-playing game that simulates the experience of fugitive slaves in the American South before the Civil War. Users assume the persona of a historical figure, such as Frederick Douglass or Harriet Tubman, and move about a map of the 19th-century United States as they are confronted with events taken from fugitive-slave narratives." Bowdoin, Brunswick, Maine, USA
Added: 14 December 2001
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An historical web simulation
by Daniel Pfeifer, University Web Director, DePauw University
Added: 26 November 2001
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Another clever site by Daniel Pfeifer - "think outside the box"
By Daniel Pfeifer, University Web Director, DePauw University
Added: 26 November 2001
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You need Shockwave to view this clever site
"A site that shows you how to piece together the past from the fragments that have survived. Our case study: Martha Ballard" Made by the Film Study Center at Harvard University
Added: 16 November 2001
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Won an e-learning design award for "exceptional content-rich and innovative online courses"
"We have built a sample course for students interested in exploring the online learning environment that takes about an hour to complete. We encourage you to login to the course and see if the online experience is for you." The Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium
Added: 2001
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Civil War to the Present. Stanley K. Schultz, Professor of History; William P. Tishler, Producer; Shane Hamilton, Web Editor. University of Winsconsin
Added: 2000
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Produced for the Yale University School of Medicine by the Yale Center for Instructional Media
Added: 2000
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This is the home of the Yale Style Guide, so as you would expect the learning materials are well structured and presented.
"The e-Skeletons Project website enables you to view the bones of a human, gorilla, and baboon and gather information about them from our osteology database."
Added: 2000
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Economics Interactive Tutorials
Produced by Samuel L Baker at the University of South Carolina, School of Public Health, Dept of Health Administration.
Added: 2000.
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This course use Java applets to allow students to interact with the data in the lectures.
"EAF 524 (Educational Policy Advocacy) was the world's first (1994) totally asynchronous (independent of space and time) online doctoral-level course for educators." Dr Rod Riegle, Dept of Educational Administration and Foundations, College of Education at Illinois State University.
Added: 2000.
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A unique experience!
Interactive Tutorial on Balancing Equations
Created by Yue-Ling Wong, Chemistry Dept, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC. This site requires the Shockwave plugin. More material at Interactivity Technology Applied in Chemical Education Chemistry Dept, Wake Forest University
Added: 2000
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A well-laid out set of pages with information relating to this course in the Philosophy and Religion Department, MSU. This Web site was given the Virtual Classroom Award by the editors of the Philosophy Research Base.
Online experiments from the Dept of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Leicester.
Added: 2000
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"Learning to Learn is for learners, teachers, and researchers. It teaches the value of self-awareness as a critical part of learning." SNOW (Special Needs Opportunity Window) Project, University of Toronto.
Added: 2000
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Math HelpBook on Equations and Functions
A text-based approach to provide help with equations and functions. Geoaths MathHelp Project at UCL
Added: 2000
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"This course focuses on the role of the Mass Media in the development of both "popular" and "personal" culture." (1999) Terry Dugas, The College of Arts and Sciences, Florida Gulf Coast University.
Updated: 14 November 2005
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"The "Simulation" began as a technique for teaching Middle East Politics through the internet. In essence, it is an extended role-playing game conducted by e-mail and web site whereby students, divided into teams of two or three playing a Middle Eastern role, will respond to a likely scenario in order to further their interests." Macquarie University, Australia
Added: 2000
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Animated biological resource .. and there's lots more at DTRL (Digital Teaching Resources Laboratory) in the Dept of Biological Sciences at University of Alberta
Updated: 7 May 2005
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Physical Geography Course Content and Learning Modules
Created by Rita D. Haberlin, Department of Geography, College of Alameda
Added: 2000
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Principles of Learning and Behaviour
"You will learn about and experience the principles of conditioning and learning by the way this course is structured." (1997) Tom Creed, College of St Benedict, St John's University.
Added: 2000
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Principles of Protein Structure - Using the Internet
(1996) Dept of Crystallography, Birkbeck College, London University.
Added: 2000.
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One of the first online courses from a UK university. This course is still available to view.
"Welcome to my probability Tutorials. These are meant to be a complete online course on measure theory, lebesgue integration and probability."
Added: 2000
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Public Health Concepts and Practice
This 3 semester hour course (CHSC 400) provides an introduction to public health concepts and practice by examining the philosophy, purpose, history, organization, functions, tools, activities and results of public health practice at the national, state, and community levels. The University of Illinois at Chicago.
Added: 2000
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The award-winning web site which contains support material for courses taught by Dr Paul Kenyon in the Department of Psychology, University of Plymouth.
Updated: 2007
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Silicon, Circuits and the Digital Revolution
"This Honors colloquium introduces first-year students to some of the science behind high technology. Designed to promote scientific and computer literacy and awareness, it gives students an opportunity to leverage their interests in everyday devices and high-tech objects into a study of fundamental science concepts. Live demonstrations, in-class group explorations of technology applications, and daily work with the Internet are essential elements of this course" (2000) George Watson, University of Delaware. Added: 2000
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The SmartPanel is a technology enhanced classroom control panel, Stanford University.
Added: 2000
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This exercise is designed to review the scientific method and introduce you to the cell as the fundamental unit of life... The cell is an appropriate place to start a course of biology--to understand life in a useful and meaningful way, you have to understand the cell." Produced by The Biology Project at Arizona University.
Added: 2000
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"The SWOT SHOP houses links to academic and technical information that will be useful to Chemical Engineers, whether student or practising engineer. Although the SWOT SHOP was established with our own students in mind, it is an open site and its information is for all to share, except for those pages that contain 'sensitive' material of course."
Added: 2000
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"This award-winning interactive program is part of the Whole Frog project You can interactively dissect a (digitized) frog named Fluffy, make movies and play the Virtual Frog Builder Game. The interactive Web pages are available in a number of languages. Help and additional information available include a tutorial, an overview of how the system works, a paper that was presented at WWW '94, and a paper that was published in COMPCON '95." (1999) Berkeley Lab
Added: 2000
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The Virtual Frog Dissection Kit has now become a world famous example of online education
A collection of interactive Java applets for use in Physics, Astronomy or Environmental Science courses. Part of The Electronic Universe, an outreach server at the University of Oregon
Added: 2000
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Virtual Presentation Assistant
"The Virtual Presentation Assistant is an online tutorial for improving your public speaking skills. This site is designed to help you target your specific needs as a speaker" Dept of Communication Studies, University of Kansas
Added: 2000
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Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature
"These tutorials each explore different methods of literary study and of delivery. The project also involved building up an archive of material relating to the War, which lecturers and students can use across the Web, creating their own tutorials or on-line essays. As with the Rosenberg project, this is a free, publicly available service. Funding was provided for two years, with Paul Groves as the Project Research Officer and Dr. Stuart Lee as the Project Manager." Oxford University
Added: 2000
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"Originally, this collection was designed for instructors to give some ideas how technology, in particular, computers, can be used in the teaching of calculus. Detailed instructions on implementing these ideas with various public domain, shareware and commercial software packages are provided. The collection has been expanded to include tutorials, interactive modules (MathView, Java, and Javascript) which can be used by either students or faculty and now also includes detailed instructions for TI-85 and TI-86 graphing calculators." From the Maths Archives server at University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Added: 2000
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A 5-part online course for everyone. Written by Dr Matthew Trump at the Ilya Prigogine Centre for Studies in Statistical Mechanics and Complex Systems. University of Texas at Austin
Added: 2000.
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The applet on this page -- assuming that you have a Java-enabled browser -- lets you write and run programs written in the "xTurtle" programming language. Maths and Computer Science Dept, Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
Added: 2000
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