EDU 6975 Interpreting & Applying Educational Research I

"Swank Digital Campus provides colleges and universities with the largest academic streaming collection of its kind. With over 25,000 films, documentaries and TV shows, Swank Digital Campus simplifies film distribution by providing faculty and students a legal streaming resource both on and off campus"--Swank Motion Pictures website, accessed Aug. 23, 2019.

Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video service for educational institutions that works directly with filmmakers and film distribution companies to offer thousands of award-winning documentaries, training films and theatrical releases across diverse subjects and disciplines. Collections include titles from the ArtMattan Films, BBC, Cinema Libre Studio, the Criterion Collection/Janus Films, DEFA Film Library, First Run Features, Flicker Alley, Frameline, the Great Courses, HBO, Kino Lorber, Music Box Films, National Film Board of Canada, New Day Films, PBS, the Orchard, Pragda, Ruscico, Samuel Goldwyn, and thousands of independent filmmakers.
Kanopy provides access to more than 26,000 films and documentaries from a variety of independent filmmakers and distributors, including the BBC, PBS and the Criterion Collection.

A comprehensive video subscription delivering over 70,000 titles spanning a wide range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.

The purpose of this site is to share information about free resources that teachers can use in their classrooms.

Champlin, C., & Loertscher, D. (2003, March). Reinvent your school’s library and watch student academic achievement increase.Principal Leadership, 3(7), 67-70.

Donham, J. (1999, March). Collaboration in the media center: Building partnerships for learning. NASSP Bulletin, 83(605), 20-26.

The Best Apps for Teaching & Learning is a recognition honoring apps of exceptional value to inquiry-based teaching and learning as embodied in the American Association of School Librarians' Standards for the 21st-Century Learner.

High-quality apps you can feel good about using with your child.

Explore this site for find high-quality materials aligned to the CCSS

"Free Web-based email, calendar & documents
for collaborative study anytime, anywhere."

"Classroom is designed to help teachers create and collect assignments paperlessly, including time-saving features like the ability to automatically make a copy of a Google Document for each student. It also creates Drive folders for each assignment and for each student to help keep everyone organized.

Students can keep track of what’s due on the Assignments page and begin working with just a click. Teachers can quickly see who has or hasn't completed the work, and provide direct, real-time feedback and grades right in Classroom."

Free access to children's books written in many languages from all over the world.

"The Kentucky Learning Depot is Kentucky’s P-20 repository for quality digital learning content. This is about educators connecting with content to build a learning community." most of the materials are for P-12, not postsecondary.

MERLOT is a free and open peer reviewed collection of online teaching and learning materials and faculty-developed services contributed and used by an international education community.

Digital resources and collections supporting STEM education.

The North Carolina Learning Object Repository (NCLOR) collects documents, audio/video clips, simulations, learning modules, assessments, and more – virtually any type of learning resource that can be digitized and processed.

Open educational resources for teaching and learning. Contains games, lesson plans, simulations, and interactive resources for primary, secondary,and postsecondary educators that have been reviewed by the OER Commons staff.

Provides a single site of free resources and tutorials which meets the national technology standards, and offer any-time training to be used for professional development, remains the goal.

Our mission is to advance excellent teaching in American schools through the development and distribution of multimedia resources for teaching and learning. We are a division of the Annenberg Foundation, which funds a wide range of programs in education and other areas.

University of Washington

National Center for Education Statistics

National Center for Education Statistics

Use this FREELY ACCESSIBLE database for researching education issues.

List of important publications some of which are open access journals/magazines.

Professional organization

National Center for Education Statistics

LearnLab is a Science of Learning Center formally known as the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center. Funded by the National Science Foundation, the center leverages cognitive theory and computational modeling to identify the instructional conditions that cause robust student learning.

Check out the Publications link.

After you graduate, you will still be able to request items via Interlibrary Loan, and check out items from the SPU library. All you need to do is contact the SPU Alumni Center to request an alumni card.