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General Resources for Industry and Tech Ed Educators

 

NEW LINKSUpdates are new as of June 30, 2007

 ● The Distance Education Clearinghouse, located at the University of Wisconsin Extension, is a comprehensive and widely recognized web site bringing together distance education information from Wisconsin, National, and International sources.

 

Discover this site at: www.uwex.edu/disted/index.cfm

 

 The National Council for Continuing Education and Training (NCCET), is a community college focused website for NCCET. This organization provides leadership for continuing professional education, community services programming, workforce and economic development and contract training professionals. The goal of NCCET's award program is to highlight individual and organizational excellence throughout the country. Best practices, exemplary programs, and outstanding leadership are showcased in publications and at an annual conference.

 

Discover this site at: www.nccet.org

 

 The Internet Public Library, located at the University of Michigan, is a resource for Vocational Educators, and includes numerous links useful to educators.

 

Discover this site at: www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/edu60.00.00/

 

 The National Workforce Center for Emerging Technologies, is an NSF Advanced Technology Education Center in Information Technology, located at Bellevue Community College, in Bellevue, Washington, and posts numerous informational articles, podcasts, and conference presentations related to Emerging Technologies and Information Technologies.

 

Discover this site at: www.nwcet.org

 

 The About.com: Career Planning website publishes a free newsletter about career planning and career re-entry.

 

Discover this site at: http://careerplanning.about.com

 

 The Chronicle of Higher Education publishes a newsletter (there is a hot button called, Get the Chronicle 4 Free so cost of the newsletter is currently unknown), apparently for community college educators, and has a wide variety of topics in newsletter run weekly.

 

Discover this site at: http://chronicle.com

 

 The National Research Center for Career and Technical Education, is a website maintained by the University of Minnesota that lists and describes 77 useful Websites for Career Technical Educators. Categories of listed websites are: Teachers, Students, Government, Non Profits, Research, and Resources.

 

Discover this site at www.education.umn.edu/nrccte/CTEWebsiteLinks.html 

  

 The League for Innovation in the Community College, maintains a website listing Higher Education Resources on the Web useful for community and technical college students, faculty and staff.

 

Discover this site at: www.league.org/resources/hied_resources.htm

 

 The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE) Community College website has sections that describe and provide linkages to: OVAE initiatives focused on Community Colleges, Topics in Community Colleges, Facts and Figures, and related links to National Organizations and Journals & Periodicals of interest to community college faculty and staff.

 

Discover this site at: www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ovae/pi/cclo/index.html  

 

 The USA Today.Education ONLINE/Career and Technical Section is a free online educational resource using USA TODAY content to help students prepare for the world of work. USA TODAY focuses on hot workplace issues and careers at every level.

 

Discover this site at: www.usatoday.com/EDUCATE/careertech/index.html

 

 The AT&T Education Knowledge Network Explorer website, when searched for vocational education, found 55 website linkages for educators. This network explorer assists educators seeking lessons, webquests, and general or industry specific information.

 

Discover this site at: www.kn.att.com/wired/bluewebn/contentarea.cfm

 

 ● The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) is a website provided by Bristol Community College in Massachusetts as an aid to its faculty has an extensive listing of web-based linkages that could assist 0900 faculty.

 

The main linkage groups are:

            Centers for Teaching and Learning... a list of faculty web resources found on other   college websites.

            Teaching Resources... an extensive listing of general resources, tips, and guidelines for faculty.

            Online Journals... review, journals, and general literature listings found online.

            Technology... information and standards for technology education

 

This website has a notice that materials on the website cannot be copied or distributed, so individual faculty would need to receive permission from the college/center before utilizing this information in a class, however the use of internet material for training purposes only could be requested from the college/center. 

Discover CIT at: www.citelad.mass.edu/ctl/links.htm

 

 

Production Technology News is an online manufacturing digest of the latest information related to the general field of manufacturing.

 Discover Production Technology News at: www.manufacturing.net  

 

● Faculty can find free publications about industrial and manufacturing technology by completing an online registration form. This could open the door to over 85 individual magazines that are devoted to a specific technical field at no cost to the faculty member.

 Discover how to subscribe at: www.allyoucanread.com

 

● The National Science Foundation (NSF) funds over thirty Advanced Technology Centers across the country, each of which focuses in different areas affecting 0900 educators, and each of which has created extensive websites for dissemination of materials.

 

Discover NSF Center websites at www.nsf.gov

 

● The Center for Occupational Research and Development (CORD) is a national non-profit organization dedicated to leading change in education through projects and programs that prepare students for the technological world of today and tomorrow.

CORD is currently posting these resources: Check out the latest Professional Development courses

            Download free research Reports in our Publications Section - Under Current News:

                        Adult Career Pathways: providing a second chance in public education

                        CORD establishes the National Center for Optics and Photonics Education

                        Career Pathways: Education with a purpose 

CORD has also posted the following individual web pages:

            Career Cluster Curriculum Development

            Career and Technical Education Mathematics Professional Development Program

            Teaching Styles Inventory

            The AT &T Professional Development Academy for Community College Faculty

            What is Contextual Learning?

            Contextual Teaching Exchange

                        Using Themes to Capture Student Interest

                        Technical Reading and Writing

                        Guided Note Taking

                        A Checklist for Editing Technical Writing

            Mathematics Classroom Resources

            Project Based Learning

            Online Courses

            Publications

 

Discover CORD at www.cord.org

 

● The National Center for Manufacturing Education (NCME) has a newly enhanced website with a very comprehensive collection of information and teaching tools for the 0900 faculty member. Opening the home page allows you to select 1.) What's New: a collection of recently added resources, recently added upcoming events, and recently added links. 2.) a comprehensive collection of web linkages covering all areas within the 0900 area. 3.) links to Engineering Technology websites across the country, and 4.) MERC Online, a comprehensive compendium of information in the areas of:

            Manufacturing Processes

            Materials Technology

            Automation Systems

            Quality Management

            Design for Manufacturing

            Production and Inventory Control

            Manufacturing of Electronic Products

            Manufacturing Enterprise Management

            Manufacturing Information Systems

            Technical Science

            Plant Engineering and Facilities Management

            Professional Skills in Manufacturing

            Safety, Industrial Hygiene, and Environmental Management

            Manufacturing Curriculum, Instructional Design, and Novel Pedagogies

 

The site has detailed information on Manufacturing/Industrial & Technical Education oriented Professional Organizations, Trade Associations, Certifications, Equipment Vendors, ATE National and Regional Centers, Grants and Foundations, ABET Colleges with Manufacturing Programs, Secondary Education, and other informational resources. The site also contains an extensive list of website linkages for educators across the country in the 0900 TOP Codes areas.

 

Discover the MERC Online website at www.ncmeresource.org

 

● The National Engineering Technology Education Clearinghouse NETEC, another of the NSF ATE Centers focuses it's web efforts on the dissemination of model programs, educational strategies, and instructional curricula and materials via electronic clearinghouses and organized

activities for the Engineering Technology Community. This site is a great resource for all technology and engineering students, faculty, and industry, and you can find exemplary materials in the field of Engineering Technology from course materials to journal articles in the digital library, get connected with experts and programs through professional services, and join the online forum. The technical information search function on this website is quite extensive.

Discover NETEC at www.neteconline.org

 

● The California Regional Consortium for Engineering Advances in Technological Education (CREATE), a joint effort between a consortium of seven California community colleges and over 50 large high tech engineering/technology employers, has developed a website that offers resource links that includes:

an open ended site rich with content that makes finding and applying to a school in California a snap.

 

            Weblinks                                              Maps and Directions to participating colleges

 

            College course outlines and on-line learning programs from participating colleges.

 

            A.S. and B.S. Degree and Certificate pathways within the participating colleges

 

            Publications                              Downloads                               Events

 

            Meetings                                  Training

 

Discover CREATE at www.create-california.org

 

● The Manufacturing & Technology News publishes an on-line magazine that offers significant information within the 0900 TOP Codes areas. First time visitors to the website can receive the current issue free of charge, after which one must subscribe, however if you care to examine the content of back issues that are in an on-line library, this service (at this time) is also free of charge, and there is a free on-line newsletter.

 

Discover this magazine at www.manufacturingnews.com

 

● The National Council for Advanced Manufacturing (NACFAM) publishes a weekly information service that provides information on Federal Policies and National Trends in Manufacturing (the NACFAM Weekly), and you could try contacting them to see how you could receive this weekly news update.

 

Discover this website at www.nacfam.org

 

 

 


 


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