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Useful Weblinks for Science & Engineering Educators

EurekAlert!
EurekAlert! is an online, global news service operated by AAAS, the science society. EurekAlert! provides a central place through which universities, medical centers, journals, government agencies, corporations and other organizations engaged in research can bring their news to the media. EurekAlert! also offers its news and resources to the public. EurekAlert! features news and resources focused on all areas of science, medicine and technology. 

eFunda
eFunda stands for engineering Fundamentals. Its mission is to create an online destination for the engineering community, where working professionals can quickly find concise and reliable information to meet the majority of their daily reference needs.
eFunda is all about the basics, for most part, that means college level material covered in engineering schools. If you practice engineering, more often than not you would find yourself searching for something you knew but could not quite remember. eFunda wants to be your reminder of these formulas. Not only that, eFunda wants to tell you exactly under what conditions those formulas apply, so you don't have to read an entire chapter of the good old textbook.

Freepatentsonline.com 
SumoBrain Solutions is the company behind FPO. We have been working with patents, patent data, and tackling the problems of “big data” before the term was even popularized. SBS is most well-known through its patent properties, notably FPO. The reality is that FPO is just the tip of the iceberg in capturing the depth and breadth of the capabilities and solutions of SBS – our press release in September, 2011 and the launch of SBS’s web site is an important step in addressing this delta.
"With an impressive collection of web sites, data sets, and services, including FreePatentsOnline.com, SumoBrain.com, BioMedSearch.com, and OpenThesis.org, we needed an identity outside of our hugely popular (but primarily functional) web properties. Many people don’t realize the scope of our capabilities, data and services just from using one of our sites," said Erik Reeves, CEO.
"Providing better tools for patent search was easy for us because we had conducted 100's of patent searches and understood the challenges of the IP professional – facing scarce resources to do complex and incredibly important analysis," added James Ryley, PhD.
By leveraging FPO's years of experience with patent searching, patent data (as well as a rapidly growing collection of Non-patent literature), and its massive community of users, FPO is uniquely positioned to serve the IP community.

Creative Commons Science
Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools. Creative Commons licenses are not an alternative to copyright. They work alongside copyright and enable you to modify your copyright terms to best suit your needs.

Scopus.com 

The largest abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources covering nearly 18,000 titles from more than 5,000 publishers.

If you have a portable username and password, you can log in above to access Scopus.

Useful weblinks for Educator

 

OER

http://www.alt.ac.uk/get-involved/special-interest-groups/oesig

ALT: Open Education Special Interest Group

http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/open?sort_by=created&sort_order=DESC&items_per_page=200&=Go

Oxford OER podcast site

http://openstaxcollege.org/books

Free textbooks from Rice University

http://wikieducator.org/OER_Handbook

OER Handbook

http://www.oerasia.org/oer-workshop

OER Training Toolkit

https://openeducationalresources.pbworks.com/w/page/24836480/Home

OER Infokit

http://vimeo.com/37933801 via http://toucansproject.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/rich-sharing/

Jim Taylor’s webinar on OER

http://jime.open.ac.uk/jime/issue/view/2012-OER

JIME special issue on OER

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/events/calendar-of-events/events-websites/world-open-educational-resources-congress/

UNESCO OER Congress

Tools/applications

http://photopin.com

Free photos for bloggers

http://www.formatoz.com/

Format Factory – free mediafile format converter

http://www.typewith.me/

Type with me – collaboration with online shared documents

Others

http://edudemic.com/2012/03/25-ted-talks-perfect-for-classrooms/

25 TED talks perfect for classrooms

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIv9rz2NTUk

Learning styles don’t exist

Blogs

http://terrya.edublogs.org/

Terry Anderson

http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/

Martin Weller

http://opob.edublogs.org/

David Murphy

http://www.tonybates.ca/

Tony Bates

http://www.downes.ca/

Stephen Downes

COL training packages

http://www.col.org/RESOURCES/Pages/default.aspx

Engineering Mathematics Web Resources

Arithmetic General Topics Binomial Theorem Complex Numbers Inequalities Infinite Products Geometry Areas Solids Calculus General Topics Derivatives Integrals Differential Equations Ordinary Series Constants Taylor Series Fourier Series Special Numbers

Elementary Functions Exponential/Logarithmic Trigonometric Hyperbolic Special Functions Unit Step/Delta Gamma Beta Bessel Modified Bessel Error/Zeta Elliptic Hypergeometric Miscellaneous Orthogonal Polynomials Legendre Hermite Laguerre Chebyshev

Transforms Laplace Fourier Numerical Methods Linear Algebra Root Finding Interpolation Integration ODE Statistics/Probability Set Theory Permutations/Combinations Probability Theory Distributions Reliability Least Squares Calculators/Plotters Indefinite Integral Derivative Laplace / Inverse Laplace Fourier / Inverse Fourier Linear System more

Mathematics Web Resources

wolframalpha.com
Enter your questions or calculations, and get answers—the online computational knowledge engine makes systematic information immediately computable and accessible to everyone »

blog.wolfram.com
Get tips, tricks, ideas, views, and the latest Mathematica news straight from the Wolfram Research front lines, with frequent updates by top team members »

demonstrations.wolfram.com
Bring concepts to life in science, technology, mathematics, art, finance, and a wide range of other fields, from elementary education to the frontiers of research, with this expanding collection of interactive visualizations »

www.wolfram.com
The home site of Wolfram Research, providing complete information about products and technologies »

mathworld.wolfram.com
The web's most popular and extensive mathematics resource »

reference.wolfram.com
Complete documentation on all aspects of Mathematica, including over 50,000 examples »

numb3rs.wolfram.com
The math behind the hit TV show, from the Wolfram NUMB3RS team »

stephenwolfram.com
The site all about Stephen Wolfram, scientist, creator of Mathematica, and author of A New Kind of Science »

wolframscience.com
The official website of Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science »

wolfram.com/books
Browse a broad selection of Mathematica books and references written by the world's leading experts »

wolfram.com/
tutorialcollection
Get targeted instruction via PDF, web, or printed tutorials, drawn from Mathematica 7's in-product documentation »

library.wolfram.com
Thousands of downloadable resources and references for Mathematica and other Wolfram products, collected over the full history of Wolfram Research »

forums.wolfram.com
Moderated forums supporting the ever-growing Wolfram Research community »

integrals.wolfram.com
The power to do integrals as the world has never seen before »

functions.wolfram.com
More than 300,000 facts about mathematical functions »

www.mathematica-
journal.com
An online and print journal dedicated to Mathematica users »

gallery.wolfram.com
A visual display of artistic and scientific images created with Mathematica »

tones.wolfram.com
Explore the computational universe and find your own personal tone »

OER Web Resources

1. Open Educational Resources (OER)

●     OER Commons

●     OpenCourseWare Consortium

●     MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)

●     Open Yale Courses

●     JHSPH OpenCourseWare (OCW)

●     OpenLearn (The Open University)

●     USQ OpenCourseWare

●     SJTU Open Courseware

●     Saudi Arabia?

○     National Centre for e-Learning & Disctance Learning

○     KFUPM Open Courseware

○     King Khalid University OCW

○     Qassim College of Medicine OCW

●     Pakistan?

○     Virtual University of Pakistan

●     Iran?

○     Farabi Institute of Higher Education OCW

●     Indonesia?

○     The University Indonesia

○     University of Sumatera Utara

○     UG OCW

●     Malaysia?

○     Universiti Teknologi Malaysia  OCW

○     Open University Malaysia OER

○      

●     All Open CourseWare (OCW)?
OCW Master List of courses (250+)

Open Textbooks (e-books)

●     Project Gutenberg

●     Open Textbook Catalog

●     Flat World Knowledge

●     College Open Textbooks

●     Community College Consortium of OER

●     CK-12 FlexBooks

●     Wikibooks

●     ManyBooks.net

●     20 Best Websites To Download Free EBooks

MOOCs & Open Teaching

●     MOOC Guide

●     What is a MOOC? (Video)

●     UDACITY

●     Coursera

●     P2PU

●     University of the People

●     Sharing to Connect, Interact and Learn!

          (Online Talk by Zaid Ali Alsagoff)

Learning Repositories

●     iTunes U

●     EDU - YouTube

●     MERLOT

●     Khan Academy

●     Academic Earth

●     CMU OpenLearningInitiative

●     Connexions

●     WikiEducator

●     Wikiversity

●     Extreme Learning

●     Online College Classes

●     Curriki

●     Internet Archive

●     OER Africa

●     MEDtube

●     Quora

●     Wolfram Alpha

●     101 OER Resources

●     MORE OER (250+)

2. Copyright & OER

●     Creative Commons Video

●     Creative Commons (CC) Licenses

●     CC Comparison Table

●     Open Educational Resources Licensing Continuum

●     Article: http://edtechfrontier.com/tag/connexions/

●     CC License Selection Tool

●     If license used incorrectly will I be sued?

●     OER Risk Management Calculator

3. Finding OER

●     Google Custom Search

●     2 Great Starting Points!

○     OER COMMONS

○     OCW Consortium

●     Other Good OER Search Engines?

○     OCW Finder

○     Xpert

○     OER Recommender

○     Temoa

○     Curriki Search

○     University Learning = OCW+OER = Free

○     Knowledge Finder

○     Jorum

○     OER Dynamic Search Engine

○     Discover Ed

○     Folksemantic

●     OER Glue

●     Einztein

●     iBerry

●     Social Curation Tools

●     http://www.delicious.com/zaidlearn/

●     Create Your Own Customized OER Search!: Google Custom Search

●     Article: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2008/01/google-custom-search-for-openfree.html   

4. OER Case Studies

●     New Initiative: MITx (Article)

●     Salman Khan talk at TED 2011

●     Tools Salman Khan Used to Create the Videos?

●     Introduction Video: Coursera

●     OER Case Studies

●     Flickr Creative Commons

●     OER Funding Models

5. Creating & Sharing OER

●     Turning a resource into OER (video):

●     OER Development Cycle?(Source 1 and 2)

●     OER Educator Handbook

●     Alternative to University LMS:

○      Edmodo          

○      Schoology

●     Wiki tools:

○     Google Sites

○     Google Docs

○     Wikispaces

○     Wetpaint         

●     Blogging Tools:

○     Blogger

○     WordPress

○     Tumblr

○     Posterous

●     Authoring Tools:

○     Slideshare (slidecast example)

○     Prezi

○     Create Online Crossword Puzzles!

○     WizIQ (web conferencing)

●     Create Cartoons, Movies & Animations:

○     Xtranormal

○     Go Animate

○     Toondoo

●     Desktop Authoring Tools:

○     Courselab

○     Exe

●     Use your iPad to Create OER On-The-Fly:

○     Educreations

○     Explain Everything

●     Social Media Tools and tips

●     200+ Learning Tools

●     Just in Time Training To You (JiT2U) on Social media and Web 2.0

●     OER Gurus

○     Stephen Downes
   Home: http://www.downes.ca/
   Presentations: http://www.slideshare.net/Downes/presentations  

○     George Siemens
   Home: http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/
   Presentations: http://www.slideshare.net/gsiemens

○     David Wiley
   Home: http://davidwiley.org/
   Presentations: http://www.slideshare.net/opencontent/presentations

○     Stian Håklev
   Home: http://reganmian.net/blog
   Presentations: http://www.slideshare.net/houshuang/presentations   

○     Curt Bonk
   Home: http://php.indiana.edu/~cjbonk/
   Presentations: http://www.trainingshare.com/workshop.php

●     Recommended OER resources (starting points):

○     Open Educational Resources - Educator Handbook

○     A Basic Guide to OER

○     UNESCO-COL Guidelines for OER in Higher Education