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Join Lisa Bathe, MVCR Instructor, as she shares strategies on finding diverse learning resources. Learn how to save time, enhance your courses, and offer extra materials to students. Discover websites like MERLOT, Wisc-Online, and more for a wide array of educational content. Find useful tips, articles, and teaching aids at the click of a button. Share your own experiences, successes, and challenges with the community. For any queries, contact Lisa at bathe@uillinois.edu.
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I Know It’s Out There…How to Find Learning Resources Presenter: Lisa Bathe MVCR Instructor
Why? • Can save time • Add more variety to your course • Provide additional materials for students
Questions to Consider • Is there a concept that should be emphasized? • Is there a concept students sometimes encounter difficulty grasping? • Is there a unit that needs more material?
Starting Points in Your Search for Learning Objects: • www.merlot.org MERLOT is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Links to online learning materials are collected here along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments. • http://www.free.ed.gov/ Federal Resource for Educational Excellence From the U.S. Department of Education to make government-funded educational resources easier to find • http://www.wisc-online.com/ Wisconsin Online Learning Object repository • http://educatoronline.org/ Center for Online Educators Includes some resources as well as articles and teaching tips • http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/mlx/ Maricopa learning exchange A warehouse of learning objects and a place for exchange of ideas • http://www.thegateway.org/ GEM - the Gateway to 21st Century Skills • http://vlmp.museophile.com/ Virtual Museum Pages • http://www.hazelwood.k12.mo.us/~grichert/sciweb/applets.html Virtual Labs and Simulations • http://ed-cast.org/ Higher Ed Podcast Repository
The Easy Way to These Sites • http://www.pod-course.net/learningresources.htm
Time to Share • What worked? • What didn’t? • Anyone find something they’d like to share?
Questions? • Feel free to e-mail me: bathe@uillinois.edu