Distance Education Resources for CALS Faculty
Compiled by the CALS Distance Education Advisory Committee
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A place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute (mainly text). |
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Open-source digital repository of Reusable Learning Objects (RLOs) focused on soil, water and environmental sciences. The system allows users to develop learning material and publish it into a shared digital library. |
A non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels. Excellent video and graphics presentation formats. |
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IFAS Extension – Online pesticide CEUs
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Various extension modules focused on pesticides. |
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Merlot: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching. Comprehensive learning material referenced from multiple other web sites on arts, business, education, humanities, mathematics, statistics, science and technology, and social sciences (not so much on agriculture and life sciences). |
Virtual Academy for the Semi-Arid Tropics. Various learning objects on agriculture topics. |
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Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest (e.g. greenhouse gases, population, land area, pollution, resources, food, disaster, etc.). |
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This site archives “inspired talks from the world’s greatest thinkers and doers”. |
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Henry Stewart Talks is very similar to the TED site; for biomedical and life sciences. |
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Florida Space Grant Consortium |
A matching grant program from NASA for developing educational materials for space-oriented content. Public and private universities and community colleges in Florida are eligible. |
MIT's open courseware site |
1800 online courses from MIT - free to all |
Harvard Extension School |
See some examples of DE courses from Harvard (requires RealPlayer plugin) |
