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Curriculum

This screen links to educational resources to help develop curriculum for online courses.

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) (http://www.ed.gov/free/):
This searchable index has hundreds of educational resources supported by the Department of Education. Start by typing the title of your course into the search function because the categorical lists are large and designed to appeal to K-12 educators even though a great deal of content is appropriate for college instruction.  A search on “cognitive psychology” returned 10 pages, including cognitive psychology applied to intelligence analysis and extensive information about the language of thought hypothesis.

Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) http://www.merlot.org/)
MERLOT is a free and open content resource for faculty and students in higher education.  While not as extensive as FREE), MERLOT allows for peer review of the sites so you have a little better guide to what you might want to use. A search on “English Literature” brought up 14 pages, including an online writing guide, a site about Chaucer, a Shakespeare site (of course), and more!

The WWW Virtual Library (http://vlib.org/)
Volumes of information are indexed by discipline, including links to journals, directories, discussion forums, sub-disciplines, and fascinating information. The search engine is not very effective because much of the information resides on external sites, but the indexing is such that only a few clicks brings up content pages.