UNESCO has just released a new CD-ROM with a collection of UNESCO documents on science and technology education at the secondary school level. These ocuments include:
* “Guidelines for Policy-making in Secondary School Science and Technology Education”
* “Girls and Science : A training module on motivating girls to embark on science and technology careers”
* “Technology-based training of marginalized girls”
* “Partnerships for relevant science and technology edu more...

This online full course is being published by MIT OCW. Course Description:
This course is designed as an introduction to ethics and business, with a focus on business management. Over 13 sessions, students will have the opportunity to explore theoretical concepts in business ethics, as well as cases that represent the challenges they will likely face as managers; they will also have the opportunity to work with guest faculty and business and other professional practitioners. Individual session more...

This online full course published by MIT under Creative Commons license examines the dynamic interrelations among physical and behavioral traits of humans, environment, and culture to provide an integrated framework for studying human biological evolution and modern diversity. Topics include issues in morphological evolution and adaptation; fossil and cultural evidence for human evolution from earliest times through the Pleistocene; evolution of tool use and social behavior; modern human variati more...

This online full course will consider the claim that there is no such thing as race, with a particular emphasis on the question whether races should be thought of as natural kinds: is our concept of race a natural kind concept? Is the term 'race' a natural kind term? If so, is Appiah right to conclude that there are no races? How should one go about "analyzing" the concept of race? This course features an extensive list of readings with corresponding reading questions. This free Open Educational more...

This online full course provided by MIT focuses on issues that arise in contemporary public debate concerning matters of social justice. Topics will likely include: euthanasia, gay marriage, racism and racial profiling, free speech, hunger and global inequality. Students will be exposed to multiple points of view on the topics and will be given guidance in analyzing the moral frameworks informing opposing positions. The goal will be to provide the basis for respectful and informed discussion of more...

This unit is an introduction to studying the arts and humanities. It takes you through a series of exercises designed to develop your approach to study and learning at a distance and improve your confidence. This online full course published under Creativer Commons license is made available by Openlearn, an OER dedicated Web site released by the Open University in UK.

This Unit gives you the opportunity to practise good study techniques using the theme of commemoration and memorials. It will help you to begin to think about how form influences meaning in the arts and how ideas influence approaches to the humanities. This online full course published under Creativer Commons license is made available by Openlearn, an OER dedicated Web site released by the Open University in UK.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Google have produced an online site on the Crisis in Darfur. The site enables Google Earth users to visualize and better understand the genocide currently unfolding in Darfur, Sudan. The Museum has assembled content — photographs, data, and eyewitness testimony — from a number of sources, and the site brings them together in Google Earth. The site demonstrates the power of new information technology in the presentation of information.

myEUROPE is a Web-based project of European SchoolNet which aims to help teachers raise their pupils' awareness of "what it means to be a young citizen in Europe". The project offers online a repository of over 250 Learning Objects (LO). Those Learning Objects are available in 25 languages and may be used for collective or individual learning focusing on European citizenship.

The EC-FAO Food Security Programme has launched a new distance learning unit on Food Security Information Systems and Networks.
This unit introduces and provides guidance in assessing different kinds of information systems related to food security analysis. Specific lessons include:

1. Food Security Information Systems
This lesson describes the objectives and functions of food security information systems. It introduces a basic framework for examining the various components of information more...