Science & Math Educator Resources

"Designed for educators at the University of Missouri, this guide covers ways to find, create, and use Open Textbooks & Open Educational Resources" -- website

"Open-source math textbooks that have been judged to meet the evaluation criteria set by the American Institute of Mathematics editorial board." -- RCL

"This free website is dedicated to supporting and promoting applied STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) programs serving educators and students at community and technical colleges. Through the work of the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Centers (now numbering 42), ATE Central makes available more than 6,000 resources, ranging from curricula to learning objects, podcasts, videos, and much more."-- Choice Reviews Online,

A Library of Congress resource compiled by Ellen Terrell

An American Library Association resource

"ClassDojo is a communication app for the classroom. It connects teachers, parents, and students who use it to share photos, videos, and messages through the school day. They use ClassDojo to work together as a team, share in the classroom experience, and bring big ideas to life in their classrooms and homes." -- website (viewed 11/11/2016)

An online library of free educational resources. "Ontario is partnering with eCampusOntario to develop and provide free and low-cost digital textbooks to students." -- newsrelease, https://news.ontario.ca/maesd/en/2017/6/ontario-making-college-and-university-more-affordable-with-free-online-textbooks.html

HippoCampus is made possible by the generous support of: Sponsered by: The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The institutional members of NROC, Google Grants

The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) is one of 17 national laboratories funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. The lab also receives support from the City of Newport News and the Commonwealth of Virginia.

learningscience.org is a collaborative project of the Central Bucks School District (PA, USA), the teachers of the Central Bucks School District, The College of Education at Temple University (PA, USA), and Dr. George Mehler.

MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy.

A National Science Teachers Association resource

Libguide by Worcester State University Library

"Supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Laura and John Arnold Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 20 Million Minds Foundation, Maxfield Foundation, and Rice University.
OpenStax College textbook content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Powered by OpenStax CNX." -- website.

"Open SUNY Textbooks is an open access textbook publishing initiative established by State University of New York libraries and supported by SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grants."--website

MOBIUS is proud to announce our membership in the Open Textbook Network an alliance of over 305 colleges and universities working together to advance the use of open textbooks in higher education. The OTN's tools and services assist its member libraries in building sustainable open textbook programs ... MOBIUS's membership means that all member libraries are now members of OTN and are eligible to participate in their program. " -- MOBIUS email dated 5/4/2017.

"SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) works to enable the open sharing of research outputs and educational materials in order to democratize access to knowledge, accelerate discovery, and increase the return on our investment in research and education." -- website

"TeAchnology has been providing free and easy to use resources for teachers dedicated to improving the education of today's generation of students."-- website (viewed 11/11/2016)

Opencourseware links from some leading universities

Library of Congress

Contains some free, and pay-per-view video

The Five College Center for the Study of World Languages develops these materials under the sponsorship of Five Colleges, Incorporated (the higher education consortium consisting of Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.)

The mission of Online Labs is "to serve as a comprehensive, encyclopedic reference about online labs in a variety of subjects, particularly virtual laboratory simulations for science education." -- website

"Supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Laura and John Arnold Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 20 Million Minds Foundation, Maxfield Foundation, and Rice University.
OpenStax College textbook content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Powered by OpenStax CNX." -- website.

From Choice Reviews Online "This site is a clearinghouse for accessing video, audio, documents, images, and interactive teaching/learning games over the Web for use across the curriculum and various grade levels. Users may view three resources before registration is required. Post-registration, one may browse and search through thousands of resources online."

An University of New South Wales resource

Lone Star College System listing

From the website: "TED-Ed is a free educational website for teachers and learners."

The Vega Science Trust

EdPuzzle.com

There is a free version, and a subscription fee version. "Backed by AT&T and Stanford's startX, PlayPosit is an online learning environment to create and share interactive video lessons. Teachers begin with any online video (screencasts, Khan Academy, TED, etc.) and transform what is traditionally passive content into an active experience for students, with time-embedded activities."--website viewed 11/11/2016

A commercial tool to create animated videos & presentations, some parts are fee based, some are free. Viewed 11/11/2016

A commercial website, Vizia allows the user to integrate quizzes, polls, and CTAs into videos.

Zoom videoconferencing

A DePaul University Teaching Commons resource. Some tips may be applicable to DePaul only, while others may be applicable to other institutions.

Panopto

Panopto

Panopto

Wright State University tutorials on Panopto. Some tips may pertain only to Wright State, while others may be applicable to all users of Panopto.

Panopto YouTube channel

"FlipQuiz™ provides educators with a quick way to create your own gameshow-style boards for test reviews in the classroom. Traditionally, these are created tediously, using poster board, chalkboards, PowerPoint™ or dry-erase markers on overhead slides. The review questions themselves are usually written on a separate sheet of paper.

With FlipQuiz™, questions are displayed on-screen and boards are saved for later use. Combined with a beautiful board, students are more likely to be interested and stay engaged with the test review process."-- website (viewed 11/11/2016)

"Flubaroo is a free tool that helps you quickly grade multiple-choice or fill-in-blank assignments."-- website (viewed 11/11/2016)

An online assessment tool, "Formative accounts are free for teachers and students." -- website (viewed 11/11/2016)

"Kahoot! is a free game-based learning platform that makes it fun to learn – any subject, in any language, on any device, for all ages!"-- http://blog.getkahoot.com/post/58906886260/what-is-a-kahoot (viewed 11/11/2016)

"Yes. The basic functionality of Quizalize is free for everyone. You can create your own quizzes and play them in class. We have a premium membership which allows you to do more but it is not necessary to use Quizalize."-- website FAQ (viewed 11/11/12016)

"Quizizz is a fun multiplayer classroom activity, that allows all your students to practice together."-- website FAQ viewed 11/11/2016

An online quiz tool, some features are free, others are subscription-based.

A survey creation instrument, has both free and subscription pricing.

A free rubric making tool

Facilitates the creation of rubrics based on Statewide Common Core Standards.

"iRubric is a comprehensive rubric development, assessment, and sharing tool. Designed from the ground up, iRubric supports a variety of applications in an easy-to-use package. Best of all, iRubric is free to individual faculty and students."-- website (viewed 11/11/2016)

"Rubrics make grading quicker, clearer, and more objective. They are one of the most helpful tools that teachers can have in their bag of tricks. You will find our site to one of the most extensive teacher resources for rubrics on the Internet. You will find tools that help guide you through the process of creating these assessment tools for evaluating student performance. You will also find over five hundred printable rubrics on our web site. -- website (viewed 11/11/2016)