Journal on design of educational materials.
uu:education links
A selection of our social bookmarks sorted by category which we believe to be of general interest. If you prefer to look at the complete list, they are available from Delicious.
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Educational Designer 1: Summer 2008
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Glasgow Science Centre
Background to roadshow material on probability, including nice animation of Monty Hall, and with explanations labelled for educational level.
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Mathagony Aunt
statistical education tools using ESP cards as game
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Planet Science | Sci-Teach
Package of materials for teaching pregnancy risk and spread of sexually-transmitted diseases (although they make a serious and mistake in their probability theory: the final 99% chance quoted is the chance of getting chlaymdia OR getting pregnant, not AND - this is very poor for an educational resource).
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Risk Education Statistics
Comparative risk statistics from Health Safety Executive
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Risk-Ed - Risk
Interactive risk education site sponsored by the Institute of Materials, so concentrates on environmental exposures
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SIAM: Moody's Math Challenge
An impressive US competition for high-school students featuring real-world large scale problems. (e.g. Tell us how to fix the Social Security deficit)
