Education

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Education Research Complete
This resource is a bibliographic and full text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,820 journals, as well as full text for more than 900 journals. This database also includes full text for 71 books and monographs, and full text for numerous education-related conference papers.

ERIC (EBSCOhost)
An index to thousands of education-related journal articles, books, theses, curriculi, conference papers, standards, and guidelines. EBSCO's ERIC database includes the full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information. All ERIC citations with an ERIC number that begins with the letters "ED" (for ERIC document) are available on microfiche in the Weatherford library.

Family and Society Studies Worldwide
FSSW covers popular issues and meets the requirements of professionals in all fields of social work, social science and family practice. It provides comprehensive coverage of research, policy, and practice literature in the fields of family science, human ecology, human development, and social welfare.

Films on Demand
View over 5,000 educational titles in dozens of subject areas.

  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off-campus.
  • Full video

KCDLonline (Kraus Curriculum Development Library)
KCDLonline provides educators, curriculum developers, and other researchers with easy access to the resources they need to implement educational strategies and objectives, and improve learning in PreK-12 schooling. Its fully searchable database brings together in one place:
 - Curricula, frameworks, and standards from all across the English-speaking world
 - Lessons and learning activities
 - Educational objectives
 - Educational content
 - Instructional strategies
 - Evaluative techniques
You can search KCDLonline for specific curricula by subject, keywords, forms of educational content, grades covered, and geographic locale. You may also download PDF files of the curriculum documents that appear in the current edition.

  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off campus.

Mental Measurements Yearbook (EBSCOhost)
Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute, includes consumer-oriented test reviews. The purpose of the Yearbook is to provide evaluative information to promote informed test selection. Typical test entries include descriptive information, professional reviews, and reviewer references.

  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off campus.

SPORTDiscus with Full Text (EBSCOhost)  
SPORTDiscus offers comprehensive, bibliographic coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines. This database contains over 650,000 records with journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800. The content also consists of multi-disciplinary, international references from journal and magazine articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings and more.

  • Maximum number of simultaneous users: 1
  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off campus.

Teacher Tube
TeacherTube is a video sharing website similar to YouTube. It is designed to allow those in the educational industry, particularly teachers, to share educational resources. The site contains a mixture of classroom teaching resources and others designed to aid teacher training. A number of students have also uploaded videos that they have made as part of college courses. The website contains over 26,000 videos. The goal of TeacherTube is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos.

  • Access restrictions: None
  • Full video

 

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Certification Exams for Oklahoma Educators (CEOE)
This site provides test preparation materials, registration and testing information, and services that allow you to register and obtain your unofficial test results.

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LISTA with Full Text (Library, Information Science, and Technology Abstracts)
This database provides wide coverage of librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more from journals, books, research reports, and proceedings. It contains full text for more than 270 journals and indexing for hundreds more.

Lynda.com Online Training Library
Use Lynda.com to learn the latest tools and techniques in digital media, design, and development. Video tutorials show you how to use programs such as MS Office 2007, Acrobat, Flash, Photoshop, Quicken, QuickBooks, and many other programs. There are also videos on how to use popular web sites such as Google and eBay.

  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff.
  • Off-campus users must have a high speed internet connection and QuickTime v7.5 (or higher) to watch the tutorials.
  • Number of simultaneous users: 1

ERIC - Educational Resources Information Center
This resource is an online digital library of education research and information. ERIC provides ready access to education literature to support the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education.

  • Access restrictions: None

Education Resources on the Internet
A directory of useful education-related Internet sites.