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Education Bibliographer
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Last Updated: 11/21/08

Search Engines

• Yahoo - Education
  Provides links to resources on K-12 distance (virtual) education.

Internet Gateways

• Education World: Where Educators Go To Learn
  This site provides links to articles in the field of education, a large selection of lesson plans and activities, curriculum resources, technology and school issues resources.
• Educator's Reference Desk (ERD)
  ERD provides many resourses such as resource guides, lesson plans, a question archive, and more!
• Michigan Electronic Library
  Links to distance education sites.

Research Databases

• Education Abstracts
  Coverage of education topics from preschool through college in English-language periodicals and yearbooks.
• Elibrary Elementary
  This database consists of newspapers, magazines, books, maps, pictures, audio and video material, and transcripts.
• ERIC
  Database of the Educational Resources Information Center. It contains annotated references to published and unpublished education-related literature.
• JSTOR
  Designed to archive a few key journals in each discipline. Provides full-text of selected education journals. Does not include current years.

Resources

• Babbage Net School
  Alternative high school offering online, interactive courses in English, math, science and social studies
• California Distance Learning Program
  K-8 public school
• Christa McAuliffe Academy
  Private school
• Distance Education at a Glance
  A set of guides for distance education based on the books Distance Education - Strategies and Tools and Distance Education - A Practical Guide by Barry Willis.
• Michigan Virtual High School
  Offerings to Michigan high school students and educators include advanced placement courses, electives, credit recovery, and professional development.
• North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
  High school courses, student enrichment programs and teacher workshops.
• North Dakota Division of Independent Study
  Fully accredited provider of over 150 high school and middle school distance education classes. Site includes sample courses for distance learning.

Online Journals

• Open Access Journals in the Field of Education
  This resource links to 125 scholarly, peer-reviewed, free, full-text journals in the field of education.

Style Guides

• Links to web versions of APA, MLA, Turabian from the CMU Libraries web page

Associations

• Commonwealth of Learning
  "The Commonwealth of Learning is an intergovernmental organization created by Commonwealth Heads of Government (Canada) to encourage the development and sharing of open learning/distance education knowledge, resources and technologies."
• United States Distance Learning Association