"Intute is a free online service providing access to high quality Web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK Universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in the database."

 

AMSER: "The Applied Math and Science Education Repository is a portal of educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in Community and Technical Colleges but free for anyone to use." Click on Educational Technology to view resources in education.

 

Assist: An excellent site for students who need to find out if Los Rios course offerings are transferrable to any College/University in California.

 

Braintrack University Index: World's most complete education index covering over 5,500 links to higher educational institutions in 161 countries.

 

BUBL Information Service: "Free User-Friendly Access to Selected Internet Resources Covering all Subject Areas, with a Special Focus on Library and Information Science"

 

California Code of Regulations: Full-text access by Agency List, Title number, or Regulation citation. Excellent for Title 5 education research.

 

Campaign for College Opportunity: A California non-profit organization co-founded in 2003 by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the California Business Roundtable, and the Community College League of California, the Campaign's mission is to ensure California produces one million additional college graduates between now and 2025 to meet the workforce demands of the future and ensure California's economic prosperity.

 

Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies: Established in 2007, the UK based Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies Web site is a resource designed to assist those who wish to discover and develop tools and strategies for e-learning projects. This resource will be of value to faculty and students seeking current and freely available tools and information.

 

College and University Homepages: A very comprehensive list of links to the home pages of colleges and universities throughout the world. The colleges can also be viewed through a geographical listing of universities. This index is complete and updated as a directory providing links to Undergraduate colleges and universities, Career Colleges, Graduate Colleges and Universities, Med Schools, MBA Programs. Provided by the University of Texas at Austin.

 

College and University Rankings: This site draws together and provides context to various ranking services.

 

Colleges, College Scholarships, and Financial Aid page: "Information on college scholarships and financial aid, free college scholarship searches, colleges and universities, and college and university admissions and financial aid office email addresses and telephone numbers."

 

Digital Literacy: "The Digital Literacy portal is an initiative of the Obama Administration to serve as a valuable resource to practitioners who are delivering digital literacy training and services in their communities. As more and more jobs and educational offerings are available online, the ability to navigate the Internet is critical to participate more fully in the economy."

 

Education Index: This is a business owned web site, developed by Bisca International Investments Ltd. The site indexes suggested sites in education within many academic disciplines. Use the topic-by-topic list of links on each multiple-links page to find additional resource material that may be helpful for educators and students alike.

 

Educator's Reference Desk: The Information Institute of Syracuse, the people who created AskERIC, provides access to the following resources: "Links to over 3000 resources on a variety of educational issues. This collection includes Internet sites, educational organizations, and electronic discussion groups. The Lesson Plan Collection contains more than 2000 unique lesson plans which were written and submitted by teachers from all over the United States."

 

ERIC: "ERIC is the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), a federally-funded national information system composed of more than one million bibliographic records on a broad range of education-related issues."

 

ERICDIGESTS.ORG: This site provides another way to access the ERIC digests by year from pre-1992 through 2005. The original articles were produced by the former ERIC Clearinghouse System. Please note that this site is privately owned and is in no way related to any Federal agency or ERIC unit.

 

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence: "FREE makes it easier to find teaching and learning resources from the federal government. More than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources are included from dozens of federal agencies. New sites are added regularly."

 

Gateway to 21st Century: "GEM is a Consortium effort to provide teachers with quality materials and tools found on federal, state, university, non-profit and commercial Internet sites."

 

Guide to Online Schools: Presenting information on thousands of degree and certificate programs, this website connects students with colleges and universities. Also available is a list of Online School Reviews written by actual students who have attended the universities listed on the site.

 

IES National Center for Education Statistics: The National Center for Educational Statistics under the direction of the U.S. Department of Education has created a search method, called the College Navigator, that enables students to find and select the best college for themselves. An additional search tool helps the user locate all tables/figures/charts published in the inventory of NCES' National Education Data Resource Center (NEDRC).

 

Office of Education Research and Improvement: "Visit web sites with the latest research and findings on hot educational topics. Each of the links provides connections to web sites with specialties in these topical areas sponsored by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement."

 

Teachers: Created just for teachers, this Libarary of Congress Website features links to LC sites with lesson plans, digital documents and encyclopedias pertaining to the American Experience.

 

UCLA Community College Studies: Digests from the former ERIC Clearinghouse for Community Colleges from 1993-2003. (Please note that the clearinghouse is no longer operating and that some of the links within or at the end of the digests may not work.)

 

US Department of Education - Publications: "The U.S. Department of Education's (ED) main publications page links to hundreds of online full-text publications and products -- including research, statistics, resource directories, and information for improving educational practice -- and ED Pubs, ED's online publication ordering system."

 

U.S. News: This is an online version of America's Best Colleges published by U.S. News and World Report. This directory provides the latest college rankings published by U.S. News. The site also has a link to liberal arts colleges.

AdultEd: Conceived and funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE), Division of Adult Education and Literacy (DAEL) under contract ED05CO0062 (October 1, 2005 - September 30, 2008), DAEL promotes programs that help American adults get the basic skills they need to be productive workers, family members, and citizens.

 

American Federation of Teachers: "The AFT represents one million teachers, school support staff, higher education faculty and staff, health care professionals, and state and municipal employees."

 

Association of American Colleges and Universities: "The leading national association concerned with the quality, vitality, and public standing of undergraduate liberal education. Its members are committed to extending the advantage of a liberal education to all students, regardless of their academic specialization or intended career. Founded in 1915 by college presidents, AAC&U now represents the entire spectrum of American colleges and universities—large and small, public and private, two-year and four-year. AAC&U comprises more than 1000 accredited colleges and universities that collectively educate more than five million students every year."

 

Authentic Assessment Toolbox: Created by Jon Mueller, this is a how-to text on creating authentic tasks, rubrics, and standards for measuring and improving student learning.

 

Bernard Osher Foundation: "The Foundation provides post-secondary scholarship funding to colleges and universities across the nation, with special attention to reentry students. It also benefits programs in integrative medicine in the United States and Sweden, including centers at the University of California, San Francisco; Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston; and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm."

 

California Community College Chancellor's Office: This website offers general information on California community colleges with explanations on the AA degree, higher education system, two year colleges, school, postsecondary colleges, admissions, and grant applications.

 

California Community Colleges System Strategic Plan: "The goal of the system strategic plan is to position the California Community Colleges for continued success. Guided by a representative Steering Committee, the planning process will incorporate input from all of California's Community Colleges; from K-12 schools; from University of California and California State University; from business groups; from the legislature; and from exemplary states across the country."

 

California Community Colleges System Office: "The System Office is the administrative branch of the California Community College system, and is located in Sacramento. It is also responsible for allocating state funding to the colleges and districts."

 

California Federation of Teachers: "The statewide affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers, CFT represents over 100,000 teachers in California, from pre-K through the university level."

 

California Master Plan for Higher Education: A website that provides a guide to the Educational Master Plan, a selected bibliography on California Education, and additional education sites related to higher education in California.

 

Center for Courage and Renewal: Developed with author, educator, and activist Parker J. Palmer, PhD, the Center for Courage and Renewal was created as an educational non-profit institution that strengthens individuals, professional educators, and communities through retreats and programs.

 

Center on Education Policy: "The CEP is a national, independent advocate for public education and for more effective public schools. The Center helps Americans better understand the role of public education in a democracy and the need to improve the academic quality of public schools."

 

CollegeBoard: The College Board is a not-for-profit membership association whose mission is to connect students to college success and opportunity.

 

College News: CollegeNews.org provides information on liberal arts colleges. Use this site to select and evaluate college course offerings.

 

Cooperative Work Experience Education: This program is part of the services offered by the Los Rios Community College District. "It is a unique, experimental, academic program that allows students to apply what they have learned in the classroom to their job or internship site and work towards earning college credits."

 

Critical Thinking Community: "The Foundation and Center for Critical Thinking aim to improve education in primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities. They offer conferences, workshops and professional development programs, emphasizing instructional strategies, Socratic questioning, critical reading and writing, higher order thinking, assessment, research, quality enhancement, and competency standards."

 

Education Week News: National education news articles including government policy.

 

English Club: Use this web site to find everything from lessons for students to jobs for teachers, including interactive pages such as forums, games, quizzes, chat, help and penpals.

 

FastWeb: "Free Scholarship and College Searches Plus Financial Aid Tools and More"

 

Financial Aid - USNews: Latest information, advice, and interactive tools to assist you in your financial aid search, including U.S. News & World Report's Best-Value School listings, as well as student loan and scholarship resources. Learn how to negotiate financial aid packages, estimate college costs, and calculate loan repayment schedules.

 

Folsom Lake College Tutorial Services: "Folsom Lake College provides tutorial help in a wide variety of subject areas. Our tutors are well qualified and faculty recommended."

 

Getting Online: The GO Project: "Getting Online: Distance Education Promising Practices for Canadian Literacy Practitioners" (or the GO Project for short) was an innovative national project designed to research trends, technologies and promising practices in online learning in Canada. A key project goal was to bring about a heightened awareness in the Canadian literacy community about the use and value of online learning."

 

Higher Education Research Institute: "HERI serves as an interdisciplinary center for research, evaluation, information, policy studies, and research training in postsecondary education. HERI is housed in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies (GSE&IS)at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The Institute's research program covers a variety of topics including the outcomes of postsecondary education, leadership development, institutional transformation, faculty performance, federal and state policy, and educational equity."

 

IMPAC: "The Intersegmental Major Preparation Articulated Curriculum (IMPAC) project is a unique intersegmental, faculty-designed and faculty-run project to ensure that students transferring from the community colleges to UC and CSU are prepared for work in their chosen major and can avoid having to repeat coursework."

 

Institute for Higher Education Leadership & Policy: "The Institute for Higher Education Leadership & Policy (IHELP) seeks to enhance leadership and policy for higher education in California and the nation, with an emphasis on community colleges in recognition of their importance to providing an educated and diverse citizenry and workforce. The Institute is located at California State University, Sacramento."

 

Instructional Design Resource Center: This site c ontains a number of tutorials and software quick-start guides developed to support faculty in the integration of technology into learning environments. Create an account in order to view all of the resources available.

 

Legislative Analysts Office: Full-text links to the California Spending Plan, by year: The Budget Act and related legislation. Look for the link on Higher Education under Chapter 4, Expenditure Highlights, for the latest analysis.

 

Multimedia Educational Resource: "MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy. MERLOT is a leading edge, user-centered, collection of peer reviewed higher education, online learning materials, catalogued by registered members and a set of faculty development support services" and is a project of the Office of the Chancellor of California State University.

 

National Center for Education Information: The National Center for Education Information, founded in 1979 by Dr. C. Emily Feistritzer, specializes in survey research and data analysis. NCEI, the authoritative national source on information about education and teacher preperation, is a private, non-partisan research organization in Washington, D.C.

 

National Center for Public Policy & Higher Education: This site promotes public policies that enhance Americans' opportunities to pursue and achieve high-quality education and training beyond high school. They conduct independent research and analyses of pressing policy issues facing the states and the nation regarding opportunity and achievement in higher education.

 

National Council of Teachers of English: The National Council of Teachers of English is devoted to improving the teaching and learning of English and the language arts at all levels of education. Since 1911, NCTE has provided a forum for the profession, an array of opportunities for teachers to continue their professional growth throughout their careers, and a framework for cooperation to deal with issues that affect the teaching of English.

 

Online Course Evaluation Project: The OCEP identifies and evaluates existing online courses in higher education, Advanced Placement and high school. The goal of OCEP is to provide the academic community with a criteria-based evaluation tool to assess and compare the quality of online courses. Course evaluations are made available to the public through a partnership with WCET and EduTools.

 

Scholarship Endowment: Media Event and Information: "On May 6, 2008, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was joined by California Community Colleges Chancellor Diane Woodruff to announce an unprecedented commitment of $70 million from The Bernard Osher Foundation to support private scholarships for California Community College students."

 

Teaching Tolerance: This site is dedicated to reducing prejudice, improving intergroup relations and supporting equitable school experiences for our nation's children. Also provides free educational materials to teachers and other school practitioners in the U.S. and abroad.