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EDUCATION Websites

The Library has 299 websites and
39 results for the descriptor "education".

Action Bioscience

  • 1. Action Bioscience
  • Provider:American Institute of Biological Sciences
  • Keywords: animal , bioethics , biology , biotechnology , education , genetics , K-12 , kids , life sciences , natural sciences , student , technology , environmental
  • Description: This website covers a host of topics in the life sciences. It "...provides articles by scientists, science educators, and science students on issues related to seven bioscience challenges: environment, biodiversity, genomics, biotechnology, evolution, new frontiers in science, and bioscience education. In addition, the web site provides educators with original lessons and resources to enhance bioscience teaching." Updated links are provided at the end of each article to guide the reader toward greater learning or involvement in the issue at hand. Some articles are also provided in Spanish translation.

AHIMA (American Health Information Management Association)

American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)

AMSER- Applied Math and Science Education Repository

Benchmarks for Scientific Literacy- Project 2061

  • 5. Benchmarks for Scientific Literacy- Project 2061
  • Provider:American Association for the Advancement of Science, Project 2061
  • Keywords: education , science , student , faculty
  • Description: From the website: "Project 2061's benchmarks are statements of what all students should know or be able to do in science, mathematics, and technology by the end of grades 2, 5, 8, and 12... Project 2061 promotes literacy in science, mathematics, and technology in order to help people live interesting, responsible, and productive lives. In a culture increasingly pervaded by science, mathematics, and technology, science literacy requires understandings and habits of mind that enable citizens to grasp what those enterprises are up to, to make some sense of how the natural and designed worlds work, to think critically and independently, to recognize and weigh alternative explanations of events and design trade-offs, and to deal sensibly with problems that involve evidence, numbers, patterns, logical arguments, and uncertainties."

Best Evidence Medical Education Collaboration

  • 6. Best Evidence Medical Education Collaboration
  • Provider:Association for Medical Education in Europe
  • Keywords: education , evidence-based practice , reviews , systematic reviews , faculty
  • Description: The BEME Collaboration is a group of individuals and institutions committed to the promotion of Best Evidence Medical Education through dissemination of information and production of appropriate systematic reviews of medical education, aiding medical educators to make decisions on the basis of the best available evidence. This site includes links to BEME's published reviews, reviews in progress, a bibliography of medical education articles, and links to other resources.

BioEd Online: Biology Teacher Resources from Baylor College of Medicine

  • 7. BioEd Online: Biology Teacher Resources from Baylor College of Medicine
  • Provider:Baylor College of Medicine
  • Keywords: astronaut , biology , biomedical , education , K-12 , kids , student , video
  • Description: A life sciences educational resource for students and teachers from elementary to high school level. Multimedia teaching materials and guides, selected science news items, and more. BioEd Online is edited by a distinguished group of Baylor College of Medicine faculty and staff. Now featuring a new series of video presentations on space life sciences, funded by NASA and sponsored by the National Space Biomedical Research Institute.

Biology Browser

  • 8. Biology Browser
  • Provider:Thomson Scientific
  • Keywords: biology , education , kids , natural sciences , student
  • Description: A free database of links to Web resources in the natural sciences. Sections of links and information tailored for researchers, librarians, educators and students.

Biology Project

  • 9. Biology Project
  • Provider:University of Arizona
  • Keywords: biology , education , student , multilingual
  • Description: The Biology Project is an interactive online resource for learning biology, developed at The University of Arizona, providing information useful for students ranging from secondary education level to medical school. Some materials are available in Spanish and Italian translation.

Biomedical Beat: a monthly digest of of research news from NIGMS

  • 10. Biomedical Beat: a monthly digest of of research news from NIGMS
  • Provider:National Institute of General Medical Sciences/National Institutes of Health
  • Keywords: biomedical research , cell biology , education , genetics , grants , pharmacology , research , U.S. Government , news , images , disease , RSS feed
  • Description: This is a biomedical sciences newsletter on NIGMS-funded research. This National Institutes of Health division funds research in the following areas: cell biology, biophysics, genetics, developmental biology, pharmacology, physiology, biological chemistry, bioinformatics and computational biology. Links to sections on research funding opportunities, free publications, and training and other educational grants are made accessible in tabs. In addition, an image library is provided. The newsletter is not copyrighted; articles may be freely reproduced elsewhere; re-use of images requires permissions. This newsletter offers RSS feed access.

CAAT: Johns Hopkins University Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing

  • 11. CAAT: Johns Hopkins University Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing
  • Provider:Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT)
  • Keywords: biomedical ethics , biomedical research , education , laboratory , research , toxicology , animal welfare
  • Description: "We promote humane science by supporting the creation, development, validation, and use of alternatives to animals in research, product safety testing, and education. We seek to effect change by working with scientists in industry, government, and academia to find new ways to replace animals with non-animal methods, reduce the numbers of animals necessary, or refine methods to make them less painful or stressful to the animals involved." The CAAT website also provides educational materials to download, links to related sites, most notably to its own ALTWEB, "the global clearinghouse for information on alternatives to animal testing."

Canadian Nursing Informatics Association (CNIA)

  • 12. Canadian Nursing Informatics Association (CNIA)
  • Provider:CNIA (Canadian Nursing Informatics Association)
  • Keywords: Canada , education , informatics , journal , nursing
  • Description: "The Canadian Nursing Informatics Association (CNIA) exists to help nurses across Canada to learn, share, research, and create informatics-related projects and experiences that can help to boost the competencies, theory, and practice of informatics on a national level." We start you at the Resources section, which links to nursing and allied health informatics sites, primarily in Canada and the U.S., and to educational institutions internationally offering online courses in informatics. Full text articles from the Canadian Journal of Nursing Informatics are also available here.

CancerBackup.org

  • 13. CancerBackup.org
  • Provider:Macmillan.org (UK)
  • Keywords: cancer , consumer health , drugs , education , healthcare professional , patient education
  • Description: This British cancer website provides information for patients, caregivers and physicians on all aspects of cancer: types, treatments, coping with treatment side effects, pain, etc. Visitors may also communicate about their questions with oncology nurses. Free publications written by expert healthcare providers are available to order in print or to download, and a forum/chat website called "What Now?" is also featured, in which patients share their experiences and provide support to each other.

ccLearn

Centre for Evidence Based Medicine

  • 15. Centre for Evidence Based Medicine
  • Provider:University of Oxford
  • Keywords: education , evidence-based medicine , healthcare , healthcare policy , medicine , networking , systematic reviews
  • Description: The CEBM (Centre for Evidence Based Medicine) "provides free support and resources to doctors, clinicians, teachers and others interested in learning more about EBM." Some of the many resources here include: a section providing free and open-access teaching materials, like PowerPoint files of lectures and workshops; links to guides to critically evaluating the medical literature; and links to the websites of other groups around the world that promote and teach the tenets of evidence-based practice.

Connexions

  • 16. Connexions
  • Provider:Connexions Project/Rice University
  • Keywords: courseware , curriculum , e-books , education , multidisciplinary , publishing , student , faculty , mashups , textbooks , modular , repository
  • Description: Connexions is a collaborative repository environment for the archiving, creation and publishing of online educational materials, like textbooks. The course material, using xml, is packaged in stand-alone, modular format, in order to facilitate the compilation of educational materials according to the needs of individual learners. Please see http://cnx.org/aboutus/ for a full description.

Critical Thinking Web

GetBodySmart: An Online Examination of Human Anatomy and Physiology

  • 18. GetBodySmart: An Online Examination of Human Anatomy and Physiology
  • Provider:Scott Sheffield
  • Keywords: anatomy , education , figures , physiology , student , tutorial
  • Description: The intended purpose of this site is to provide "a fully animated and interactive eBook about human anatomy and physiology," appropriate for students as well as lecturers. The site's developer has more than 20 years experience teaching the material at the university level. GetBodySmart is designed "help explain the body's complex physiological interactions and illustrate its important anatomical landmarks." Diagrams and drawings, as well as free quizzes and tutorials are included. General subject divisions include: skeletal system, muscle tissue physiology, muscular system, nervous system, circulatory system, respiratory system, urinary system, and histology.

Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)

  • 19. Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
  • Provider:HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society)
  • Keywords: education , healthcare system , informatics , information science , networking , trend , workplace , jobs , partial open access , electronic health record , information technology , information management
  • Description: A broad overview of informatics and information technology as they apply in health care is provided via brief descriptions of the sub-specialties, and free newsletters, survey results and white papers. The adoption of the EMR and EHR, or Electronic Medical or Health Record, is a prominent theme of HIMSS. Resources on conferences and professional development activities for those in the field of health informatics are included. A Nursing Informatics section provides some free PowerPoint-style presentations. Provides information on the U.S. Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), focusing on the Economic Stimulus package's provisions for healthcare information technology. Also tracks the healthcare reform legislation making its way through the U.S. Congress in 2009/2010. Some content at the HIMSS site is for members only.

HIV InSite

  • 20. HIV InSite
  • Provider:UCSF Center for HIV Information
  • Keywords: consumer health , education , policy , research
  • Description: This website from the University of California San Francisco is designed to provide comprehensive, up-to-date information on HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention, and policy.

Internet Archive

Introduction to Chest Radiology

KidsHealth

  • 23. KidsHealth
  • Provider:Nemours Foundation
  • Keywords: consumer health , education , kids , wellness , free
  • Description: KidsHealth is the largest, most visited site on the Web providing doctor-approved health information about children from prenatal care through adolescence. Created by The Nemours Foundation's Center for Children's Health Media, KidsHealth provides accurate, up-to-date, and jargon-free health information. KidsHealth has created separate areas for children, teenagers and parents, designed with age-appropriate content and tone. Includes thousands of original in-depth features, articles, animations, games and resources developed by experts in pediatric and adolescent healthcare.

MedEdPORTAL

  • 24. MedEdPORTAL
  • Provider:AAMC (Associaton of American Medical Colleges)
  • Keywords: courseware , creative commons , curriculum , dentistry , education , e-publishing , medicine , open access , video , faculty , peer review , repository , podcasts
  • Description: “MedEdPORTAL is a free peer-reviewed publication service and repository for medical and oral health teaching materials, assessment tools, and faculty development resources. All copyright and patient privacy issues are addressed during the submission process so users around the globe can download and utilize any and all of the published resources for educational purposes without legal infringements.” An online booklet provides details of the submission and peer review process, and one must create a username and password, to make full use of the website. (We recommend reading the privacy policy statement before signing up.) Browse the materials by discipline or "hot topic," or use the basic or advanced search box.

MedPix Medical Image Database

  • 25. MedPix Medical Image Database
  • Provider:Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Informatics, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD
  • Keywords: allied health , education , graduate medical education , health sciences , informatics , medical imaging , nursing , open access , radiology , student , CME , images
  • Description: This is a free medical imaging database from the Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Informatics, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD. Nearly 50,000 captioned images, more than 11,000 peer-reviewed case files approved for teaching and CME credit, and over 6,600 disease topics are provided here. Users who register have personal space to save images and create their own quizzes. A valuable resource for radiology and other allied health staff and trainees, physicians and medical students, nurses and graduate nursing students.

National Science Digital Library (NSDL)

  • 26. National Science Digital Library (NSDL)
  • Provider:National Science Digital Library
  • Keywords: courseware , education , K-12 , natural sciences , portal , faculty
  • Description: From the website: The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) was created by the National Science Foundation to provide organized access to high quality resources and tools that support innovations in teaching and learning at all levels of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education... NSDL is designed primarily for K-16 educators, but anyone can access NSDL.org and search the library at no cost. Access to most resources discovered through NSDL is free; however, some content providers may require a login, or a nominal fee or subscription to retrieve their specific resources.

Neurons

  • 27. Neurons
  • Provider:University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine
  • Keywords: anatomy , cell biology , creative commons , education , human anatomy , neuroscience
  • Description: An interactive site illustrating the anatomy and functions of neurons and the cells of which they are composed. Downloadable animations on such topics as axonal transport and ion channels are included, to be used for educational purposes, in accordance with the terms of a Creative Commons license.

Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation

OER Commons (Open Educational Resources)

  • 29. OER Commons (Open Educational Resources)
  • Provider:Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME)
  • Keywords: courseware , curriculum , education , K-12 , kids , multidisciplinary , student , faculty
  • Description: An open courseware site containing course content and trainers' resources for courseware ranging from college to K-12. Providers of the content include prestigious educational institutions like University of California Berkeley, Rice University's Connexions project, Carnegie Mellon University and many more.

Podcasts from the University of Oxford

  • 30. Podcasts from the University of Oxford
  • Provider:University of Oxford
  • Keywords: astronomy , biology , education , humanities , medicine , multidisciplinary , philosophy , physics , video , podcasts
  • Description: A collection of about 600 predominantly audio, and some video, files of lectures by and interviews with Oxford University faculty. Of particular interest are those from the Medical Sciences and the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Divisions, including several podcasts on Darwin. (Instead of clicking the hyperlink title of a listing, click on the "show media items" button to see individual podcasts under that heading.)

PRIM&R: Public Responsibility in Medicine & Research

Research 101

  • 32. Research 101
  • Provider:University of Washington Information Literacy Learning
  • Keywords: education , internet , research , student , tutorial , modular
  • Description: This is an interactive tutorial on the basics of doing research, appropriate for use by secondary school and college undergraduate students. Addresses topic choice, primary and secondary sources, evaluation of information sources, and more.

Scitable

  • 33. Scitable
  • Provider:Nature Education
  • Keywords: blog , courseware , education , genetics , genomics , science , student , faculty
  • Description: Scitable is a free website with international participation; its current focus is on all aspects of genetics. Created for educators and students working at the graduate and undergraduate levels, it may well be accessible enough for some high school students. Includes many free articles within "topic rooms," and offers blogging, the ability to post questions, opportunities to contribute as writer or mentor, and formation of groups for discussion or curriculum. Free registration required for full participation.

Servier Medical Art

  • 34. Servier Medical Art
  • Provider:LABORATOIRES SERVIER
  • Keywords: education , medicine , animation , images , medical illustration
  • Description: This section of the Servier website is an online PowerPoint image bank of medical illustrations, free for educational use, and otherwise free but for the requirement to properly acknowledge the source when using for publication.

Smithsonian Institution

SpectroscopyNow.com

  • 36. SpectroscopyNow.com
  • Provider:John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
  • Keywords: conference , education , industry , medical imaging , portal , video , podcasts , webinars
  • Description: This set of newsletters encompasses every application and type of spectroscopy, including medical imaging. The reader can sign up for RSS feeds on areas of particular interest (including MRI, NMR, proteomics and chemometrics), view podcasts, and check on industry conference schedules. Note: Free registration is required for access to some areas of this website.

TILT (Texas Information Literacy Tutorial)

  • 37. TILT (Texas Information Literacy Tutorial)
  • Provider:University of Texas at Austin Library Instruction and Information Literacy Services
  • Keywords: education , libraries , tutorial , information literacy
  • Description: A tutorial for library and Internet users that helps users to: determine which are the best resources to answer their research questions; evaluate the quality of information retrieved via the Web; understand the basics of copyright law; and more. Shockwave Flash 3 plug-in required for interactive features.

User's Guide to Finding and Evaluating Health Information on the Web

Virtual Body