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Sat, 25 May 2013 04:38:57 PDT Sat, 25 May 2013 04:38:57 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=619444 World History for Us All is a powerful, innovative model curriculum for teaching world history in middle and high schools. •· Offers single story rather than unconnected stories of many civilizations.•· Helps teachers meet state and national standards.•· Enables teachers to survey world history without excluding major peoples, regions, or time periods.•· Helps students understand the past by connecting specific subject matter to larger historical patterns.•· Draws on up-to-date historical research. may be readily adapted to a variety of world history programs.World History for Us All is a national collaboration of K-12 teachers, collegiate instructors, and educational technology specialists. It is a project of San Diego State University in cooperation with the National Center for History in the Schools at UCLA. World History for Us All is a continuing project. Elements under development will appear on the site in the coming months. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=503538 The website provides the “what is”, “why”, and the “how to” explanations for using simulations as an effective pedagogical strategy. The website provides examples as well as links to other related pedagogical strategies.The Teaching with Simulations website is part of the SERC Pedagogy In Action Portal which is an excellent collection of teaching strategies that can apply across disciplines. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=503535 The website provides the “what is”, “why”, and the “how to” explanations for using class experiments as an effective pedagogical strategy. The website provides examples as well as links to other related pedagogical strategies.The Classroom Experiment website is part of the SERC Pedagogy In Action Portal which is an excellent collection of teaching strategies that can apply across disciplines. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=479642 The CSU’s Affordable Learning Solutions Campaign is designed to enable faculty to choose and provide quality educational content that is more affordable for their students. CSU students typically pay over $800 per year for their books. By reducing their expenses, we believe we can provide better access to a quality CSU learning experience. We are launching this campaign in 2010 and will be continuously improving the services to CSU faculty and students each semester. The Affordable Learning Solutions website is designed to:• Make it easy for faculty, staff, and students to find no/low cost course content that can substitute for more costly textbooks• Enable faculty to be recognized for their efforts in reducing costs for students• Share practices for using no/low cost digital content in CSU courses• Support campuses in customizing their strategies to enable affordable learning solutions http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=340192 The CATEA website provides a wide range of information on accessibility news, events, projects, resources, products, and publications The Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access (CATEA), formerly the Center for Rehabilitation Technology (CRT), was established at the Georgia Institute of Technology on December 1, 1980. In its first two decades it grew to include expertise in the disciplines of engineering, industrial design, architecture, computer science, rehabilitation counseling, occupational therapy, adult literacy education, orthotics and recreational therapy. By the 1990's, CATEA was an established interdisciplinary research and design center devoted to applications of technology to alleviate problems of human need, providing service, research and education under the auspices of a world class academic institution. With the new millenium, CATEA has taken another leap forward, using the best tools of the digital age to reach an ever-expanding number of consumers. Multiple Web resources, teleconferencing and new media production allow Center staff to provide technical assistance and information dissemination across the globe. Please see our growing number of Projects and Resources for a look at where CATEA is today. The CATEA website provides a wide range of information on accessibility news, events, projects, resources, products, and publications http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=522604 This website provides a wide range of information related to metropolitcan transportation topics and provides online resources in research, education, outreach, links to other organizations, and news/events.The METRANS Transportation Center is a US DOT University Transportation Center (UTC). Established in 1998 through the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21), METRANS is a joint partnership of the University of Southern California and California State University, Long Beach. Under the UTC program, federal funding requires a dollar-for-dollar match with non-federal funds. The California State Department of Transportation (Caltrans) provides the full non-federal match to METRANS. METRANS is the first and largest UTC in Southern California, home to nearly 2/3 of the state's population, and in GNP equivalent the 10th largest economy in the world. The Los Angeles region is also the most congested metropolitan area in the US and the only one in the 2004 State of California "extreme" non-attainment category for ozone. The region is a center for international trade: the Los Angeles/ Long Beach port complex is the largest container port in the US (Total Cargo Value: over $378 billion FY 2007); and LAX is the 4th largest air freight center in the US, following only Memphis, the FedEx hub, and Anchorage. As a center of both international trade and immigration, it is home to both extreme wealth and extreme poverty, and has one of the largest transit-dependent populations in the country. METRANS is committed to addressing the transportation challenges of regions such as Los Angeles. METRANS' mission is to solve transportation problems of large metropolitan regions through interdisciplinary research, education and outreach. The University Transportation Center program has three objectives: Foster independent, high quality research to solve the nation's transportation problems Train the next generation transportation workforce Disseminate information, best practices, and technology to the professional community METRANS accomplishes these objectives through a comprehensive and collaborative program of research, education, information dissemination and technology transfer organized around four topical focus areas. The main focus is goods movement and international trade, accounting for about half of all METRANS research and most of METRANS outreach and information dissemination activities. The second focus area is mobility of urban populations, with special emphasis on public transportation, and accounting for about one third of METRANS research. Highway infrastructure, and safety, security and vulnerability are relatively new topic areas. The partnership of USC and CSULB brings together two large urban universities (a combined student body of about 65,000) with complementary strengths. USC is among the nation's leading research universities, and CSULB is one of the largest teaching universities in California. Participating faculty come from several fields of engineering, as well as planning, public policy, public administration, economics, and geography. USC offers PhD and masters programs with transportation specialization in engineering, urban planning, public policy, and public administration. CSULB offers an interdisciplinary Master of Arts in Global Logistics. Professional development programs are offered through its Center for International Trade and Transportation at the College of Continuing and Professional Education. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=81082 Bigelow Labs in Boothbay Harbor, Maine has released "Phytopia: Discovery of the Marine Ecosystem" an educational CD-ROM. The CD was produced by a partnership of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Science, University of New England, and NASA's JPL. The CD provides a window to the fascinating world of the ocean?s microscopic life. Users can view organisms at various magnifications and are taken into the water column to view the succession of plankton under changing conditions. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=527708 The European School Oncology has a growing collection of grand round sessions - live and recorded - that cover a wide range of cancer topics. You will need to log into the website for free to get access to the e-grand rounds.e-grandrounds: are weekly sessions on hot-topics organised in co-operation with Nature Reviews in Clinical Oncology without commercial sponsorship and are CME and ESMO-MORA accredited. e-oncoreviews: are monthly sessions designed to offer a balance and comprehensive overview on a specific topic, be it a tumour type, a type of therapy, diagnostic or therapeutic approach. Some e-oncoreviews are organised in collaboration with the School's sponsors, whilst ESO-organised sessions are held in co-operation with Nature Reviews in Clinical Oncology, CME and ESMO-MORA accredited.The content of the website is intended as an informational and educational tool. It is mainly designed for oncology professionals and other physicians interested in oncology. With the aim of disseminating information, the website will propose contents provided by third-parties. However, ESO has no responsibility to whether this content, or the content of linked websites, is accurate or complete. Even though the website includes scientific and medical information, it is not designed to provide medical advice and no responsibility can be taken to whether the medical information is complete, exhaustive or accurate. Patients and the general public visiting the website should always seek professional medical advice. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=721246 The IT (Information Technology) Metrics and Productivity Institute provides an online collection of free articles, books, webinar recordings, blogs on topics including Agile Methodologies, Enterprise Architecture, ITIL, Software Process Improvement, Software Requirements, Application Development $& support, IT management, Offshore and Outsourcing, Software Project Estimation, Software Risk Managment, CMMI, IT Metrics and Measurement, Project Management & PMO, Software Quality and Testing, and Software Six Sigma.To get access to this information, become a Basic Member (It's FREE) (or there is some paid membership options for premium services).The ITMPI is sponsored by an industry leader - Computer Aid, Inc http://www.compaid.com/WhoWeAre.aspx http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=255466 The CSU started a systemwide strategic planning process in mid 2005 to support campus' planning and implementation of learning management systems (LMS) to help CSU campuses work together to map the future use of e-learning at the CSU.The goal of the strategic planning process is two-fold:1. To develop a shared vision of LMS use within the CSU and opportunities for collaboration in meeting that vision.2. To support and promote campus and systemwide LMS strategic planning and implementation efforts so that campuses are best able to support e-learning needs.