The Japanese OCW Alliance offers open courseware materials from six Japanese universities - Keio, Kyoto, Osaka, Tokyo Tech, Tokyo, Waseda, and Nagoya. Open Courseware contains course syllabi, lectures and other materials free for anyone to use for educational purposes. Thus, materials can be used for personal education or for teachers looking to organize similar courses.
Science Netlinks provides lessons, tools, resources and benchmarks for K-12 science education. The site is sponsored by the AAAS and the MarcoPolo Foundation. The site doesn't just offer science related information, it helps to show you how you can integrate it into the classroom. You can also subscribe to an e-mail newsletter letting you know about updates to the site.
Universities Worldwide offers links to the websites of universities and educational institutions around the world. The database currently offers links to more than 7300 institutions in more than 180 countries. Institutions can be found by country, state and keyword. If the site is missing a link to a particular university, you can add it. Note that the database on this site only includes links to institutions that have University status.
Braintrack links you with the websites of educational institutions around the world - over 8,000 of them, and growing. Links include colleges, universities, polytechnical institutes, and more. Institutions can be found both geographically and through key word searches.
Inside Higher Ed is an e-journal dedicated to higher education. The journal offers news, views, and job related information all connected to the world of higher ed. Whether you are a graduate student, a full professor or a graduate dean, the site is designed to meet your needs.
EdRef is a free college search directory to information about colleges, universities and post-secondary trade schools around the United States. The site offers you information about admission requirements, test scores, majors, diversity, and more - essentially everything you need to know to help you make your college choice. You can also browse schools based upon degree programs, name, religious affiliation, whether the school offers online degrees and scholarships.
Innovate is an online bi-monthly peer-reviewed journal focusing on education and technology. Articles look at applied research and advanced practice, development, commentary, ideas to watch and advice on other places to look at for technology/educational resources. Students are more and more tech-savy and it's important that education take advantage of this.
FIRE - The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education promotes and fights for the principle of academic freedom in education for both liberals and conservatives. These freedoms are the freedom of speech, religious freedom, legal equality, due process and freedom of conscience. FIRE recognizes that many of these freedoms are restricted both for teacher and students in the name of "tolerance" or "political correctness" but believes that authentic education requires the unrestrained exchange of ideas. The site discusses problem situations at various academic institutions as well as the nature of academic freedom in the contemporary college/university.
The Matrix is designed by Michigan State's Center for Humane Arts, Letters and Social Sciences Online and seeks to bring together information technology and the humanities. It includes a tremendous amount of materials promoting the integration of education and technology connected with almost every field of the humanities - in areas of networking, education, and multi-media. For all educators in the Arts and Humanities - this site is a must see.
Both Virtual High School and the Florida Virtual School are fully accredited centers of learning offering high school courses over the Internet. They offer courses that you or your child might or need to take but aren't offered by your local high school. However to get credit on a transcript you will need to sign up through your local area school. Think of it as high school without the annoying problems of bullys or dress codes.
