External Education Links

Content Topics

These external links may be useful for your research

Engineering

Engineering Pathway

Optics

SPIE optipedia

Optoelectronics

Optoelectronics module UNC

Liquid Crystals at CWRU

Organic Light Emitting Diodes

Building a simple OLED

Nanotechnology and Photonics Lab videos

Royal Society of Chemistry OLED lesson plan

Materials Science

University of Cambridge Dissemination of IT for the Promotion of Materials Science (DoITPoMS)

Nanotechnology

National Center for Learning and Teaching in Nanoscale Science and Engineering

Nanotechnology education hub

Photovoltaics

National Renewable Energy Laborartory

Photonics and Communications Technology

Optic Fiber

Problem Based Learning Exercises in Photonics from NEBHE

Reference Sources

COPE: Center for Organic Photonics & Electronics at Georgia Tech

ISI Science Citation Index

Material Safety Data Sheets Search from Cornell University

NIST Chemistry Webbook

NIST Physics Database

Organic Compounds Database

Spectral Database System for Organic Compounds

Abbreviations for Journal Names

Useful Compilation of Information About Organic Chemistry

Electron Microscopy Overview

A Broad List of Named Reagents that you may come across

IUPAC Glossary of Physical Organic Chemistry

K-12 Educational Resources

The ChemEd Digital Library

The Physics Classroom - Tutorials, demonstrations and manipulatives

Flash Animations for Physics

Molecular Expressions- Science Optics and You

Teacher domain- K12 resource with lots of media

Curriki- K-12 Lessons

How Science Works - UC Berkeley program gives an excellent overview of scientific process(es)

Hyperphysics Georgia State University- concept maps and explanations

The Point Interactive modules on Photonics Material, Processes and Devices

Pathways to Science

Teach Engineering Resources for K-12

Chemistry Simulations

Resources for Informal Science Education

Informal Science Education - Good resource to see what museums are doing with outreach activities.

Association of Science and Technology Centers- Main clearinghouse for museum exhibit and demo technologies.

E-learning

General Info

Fostering E-learning in the Networked World- NSF

Cornell Learning Molecule Concept

Creative Commons Content Licenses

The Carnegie Commons - Technology, teaching and learning

Digital Libraries

National Science Digital Library - NSDL

Applied Math and Science Education Respository

Chemical Education Digital Library

MERLOT Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching

The Chem Collective- Online resources for Teaching and Learning Chemistry

SMETE Digital Library Science Mathematics Engineering and Technology Education

Other Wikis

Special wiki from the Thz group at UMBC

Wikipedia

Wikibooks

Wikimedia

Wikiversity

Open Courseware

MIT Open Courseware

Open Educational Commons

Open Learning Initiative

Tools

eXe xhtml authoring software for building modules with SCORM output.

JMOL molecular 3D manipulation tool and plugin

Open Science Project - software tools for scientists

Chem Spider Chemical Structures Database

Moodle Course Management System

Sakai Collaboration tools for Higher Ed

Freemind Concept Mapping Software

Wordle- create snazzy graphics from vocabulary, or text