Blogger #4: Web based Resources

Web based resources for education is greatly helpful because they provide better experience for students and are perfectly tailored to suit their requirements. It is expected that these resources would play a critical role in the success of educational establishments in the future.  Online video lectures are the most preferred form of online educational resource. The collection of engineering based video resource named Stanford Engineering Everywhere offers useful information as well. Udemy covers a diverse range of topics and offers videos generated by users themselves. Students can also opt for Multimedia Education Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (admin, 2011).

This video resource offers teaching and learning opportunities across various academic areas. It is inclusive of guides, visualization and videos. Academic Earth is an aggregator that features the best video courses available on the internet. Nixty performs a similar function like Academic Earth.  Also, a vast number of resources for teaching mathematics in the elementary and secondary grades are now available on the Internet. Many of these resources are available for free. The resources discussed in this document are web-based tools and activities for teaching and learning mathematics (Thorsen, 2009).

Because of the vastness of the World Wide Web and the speed with which it changes, not all resources can be included in this discussion. Illuminations http://illuminations.nctm.org/ Illuminations, developed through a partnership between the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) and MarcoPolo, has been designed as a companion to illuminate the NCTM standards for mathematics. It includes links to the standards and electronic examples from the NCTM website.  http://www.aaamath.com/ this site has practice activities for many math topics for grades kindergarten through 8. For each topic, it gives an explanation and a timed practice activity. Reports of results can be viewed and printed. Some activities are available only on a CD, which must be purchased, but many are available on the website for free (Ahmed et al. 2004). 

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Admin (2011) http://www.onlineeducationhub.com/blog/author/admin/

Ahmed, A., Clark-Jeavons, A., & Oldknow, A. (2004). How can teaching aids improve the
  quality of mathematics education. Educational Studies in Mathematics, 56, 313-328.

Thorsen, C. (2009). Techtactics: Technology for teachers. (3^rd ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson

   Education Inc.