Open Courseware
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California Early Childhood Educator CompetenciesThe California Early Childhood Educator (ECE) Competencies describe the knowledge, skills and dispositions that early childhood educators need in order to provide high quality care and education to young children and their families.
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First Year Teacher ProgramThe 10 modules include video segments featuring teachers using effective strategies and techniques in the classroom on subjects such as phonemic awareness, phonics, speech sounds, and text comprehension.
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OpenLearnOpenLearn is a source of over 600 free online courses from The Open University.
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The Learning Classroom: Theory into PracticeThis is an online college course developed for students preparing to be teachers, as well as inservice K-12 classroom teachers and other educators.
Open Textbooks -- Special Education
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The Community College Consortium for Open Educational ResourcesThese open textbooks cover various topics in education, including classroom management and supervision, contemporary issues in education, and special needs education. The list of books is comprehensive; it’s best to skim through the list to find specific-interest books.
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Signing SavvySigning Savvy is a sign language dictionary containing several thousand high resolution videos of American Sign Language (ASL) signs, fingerspelled words, and other common signs.
Videos
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Education in Video This link opens in a new windowEducation in Video is a collection of streaming videos developed specifically for training and developing teachers. Covers teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms. Note: The library subscribes to Volume 1.
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Edutopia: Education Video LibraryVideos about K-12 teaching methods and strategies from the George Lucas Educational Foundation.
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PBS Learning MediaThe PBS Digital Learning Library is a public media system-wide repository of digital media learning objects, including videos, images, podcasts and documents.