External Education Links
Content Topics
These external links may be useful for your research
Chemistry
Engineering
Increasing retention in engineering students
Laboratory Science
NSF Lab modules on OPC, OLED, OTFT
Making an OLED Lab activity in undegraduate chemistry
Excitonic Energy Structure of Organic Materials - MIT open courseware
Optics
Optoelectronics
Organic Light Emitting Diodes
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)
Materials Digital Library Pathway
Nanotechnology
National Center for Learning and Teaching in Nanoscale Science and Engineering
University of Wisconsin MRSEC - Video Labs
Photovoltaics
National Renewable Energy Laborartory
Photonics and Communications Technology
Problem Based Learning Exercises in Photonics from NEBHE
Reference Sources
COPE: Center for Organic Photonics & Electronics at Georgia Tech
Material Safety Data Sheets Search from Cornell University
Spectral Database System for Organic Compounds
Abbreviations for Journal Names
Useful Compilation of Information About Organic Chemistry
A Broad List of Named Reagents that you may come across
IUPAC Glossary of Physical Organic Chemistry
K-12 Educational Resources
Collections
Molecular Expressions- Science Optics and You
Teacher domain- K12 resource with lots of media
How Science Works - UC Berkeley program gives an excellent overview of scientific process(es)
Hyperphysics Georgia State University- concept maps and explanations
Teach Engineering Resources for K-12
Basic chemical bonding- virtual chemistry book- good concept maps
MAST Materials Science and Technology Teachers's Workshop- U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Beyond Benign- Green chemistry education
Program Planning for Photonics education in High School
Simulations an Online exploration
The Point Interactive modules on Photonics Material, Processes and Devices
The Physics Classroom - Tutorials, demonstrations and manipulatives
PhET Interactive simulations from U of Colorado Boulder
The Concord Consortium's Science of Atoms and Molecules project
Labs
40 simple laser experiments for high school students
Educational Research and Program Development
Community for Advancing Discovery Research in Education
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
Community for Advancing Discovery Research in Education (CADRE)
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
Material Science Education Portal
Other Wikis
Special wiki from the Thz group at UMBC
UC Davis ChemWiki Chemistry Textbook
Open Courseware
California open source textbooks 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