McQuade LibGuides: Open Educational Resources: Education and Social Policy

On this page you will find boxes containing open educational resources selected for each discipline within the School of Education & Social Policy. This page is meant to showcase a selection of some of the resources that are available in your subject area, and provide you some ideas of the types of materials that are available to use in your courses. This is not meant to be an exhaustive list, so please feel free to contact your liaison librarian for assistance finding additional resources for your subject.

Criminology

The Society Pages- Crime
Browse podcasts, articles, and blogs, and user generated community content related to crime and criminology.
"The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota and supported by individual donors and publishing partner W.W. Norton & Company, Inc."
CriminologyTV
This is the official YouTube channel for the Australian Institute of Criminology, and features videos from scholars and experts on various topics in the field.
American Society of Criminology- Syllabi Collection
Download syllabi, lists of films, classroom activities, reading assignments for two classes: Introductory Criminology and Introductory Criminal Justice.

Education

College Educator Development Program
A collaboration of six Ontario colleges created learning modules that provide educators with skills that focus on instructional design elements.
Common Core Hub
Hosted through OER Commons, this collection provides "high-quality, Common Core-aligned resources carefully gathered from across the web to freely use, and even to reuse and adapt to the needs of your own classrooms and districts."
Edutopia
K-12 Education & Learning Innovations with Proven Strategies that Work.
Zunia- Education Policy and Management
This online platform facilitates knowledge exchange between professionals, academics, and practitioners, and aggregates useful academic articles, books, blogs, and websites.

Human Development

Behavior Breakthroughs App
This free interactive app uses game-based technology to create simulations to provide caregivers and parents with interactive simulations to prepare effective strategies and techniques for responding to children and adults displaying challenging behaviors. Currently available for iOS only.

STEM Education

BioEd Online
Created by the Baylor College of Medicine, this resources is designed to provide science educators with reliable standards-based lessons and resources that utilize technology.
Case Studies & Resources For Teachers
"The Teaching and Learning Interchange (TLI) provides online subject-matter training and our Pedagogy in Practice online video case studies of accomplished teaching. The video case studies demonstrate lessons from real general science, biology, chemistry, physics, algebra and geometry classrooms at the middle and high school levels. The cases are supported by over 200 downloadable strategy resources and an online library of additional materials."
NABT curriculum resources
Resources from the National Association of Biology Teachers.
Includes links to many resources; especially geared toward biology teachers and biology education majors.
Scitable by Nature Education
Created by Nature Publishing Group, provides educators with resources on genetics and cell biology and tools to customize ebooks, create online courses, and share resources and content with colleagues.
STEM Literacy
Hosted through OER commons, this collection provides "resources to help you stay informed about the latest news and research, get connected to other educators working in OER Commons, and start building your own teaching and learning materials."

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Open Educational Resources

Liaison Librarian for the Humanities & Education

Table of Contents

Criminology

Education

Human Development

STEM Education

MERRIMACK COLLEGE MCQUADE LIBRARY

Open Educational Resources

Table of Contents

Criminology

Education

Human Development

STEM Education

MERRIMACK COLLEGE
MCQUADE LIBRARY