Various flavors of modules, both as parts of noncredit and credit courses, may be found on the Web sites of IHETS member institutions. Examples from outside Indiana appear at the bottom of the page.
Ball State University
- The MITT - http://www.bsu.edu/csh/mitt
This Ball State project, funded by FIPSE, will make available on CD ROM a set of multimedia modules meant to help students and those who work with them deal with the issue of academic dishonesty.
- International Public Relations - http://www.bsu.edu/classes/prcc/index.html
Ball State University partnered with Great Britain's Centre for Public Affairs Studies (London) to deliver an Internet-based noncredit certification program for public relations and corporate communications professionals. It is made up of 12 modules (47-units): completing them successfully leads to a postgraduate professional diploma.
- Computer Information Literacy - http://web.bsu.edu/cilm/index.html
Funded as part of the 2000-01 IPSE Grant program, this set of modules is a a self-paced, interactive Computer Information Literacy Course (CILC) for a variety of audiences, especially working adults in Indiana.
Indiana State University
- InterLink - http://web.indstate.edu/interlink/speakers.html
Students from Japan studying at ISU take formal classes in the mornings; afternoons they use modules, like this one for working with American conversation partners. Two other modules introduce them to Indiana movies - http://web.indstate.edu/interlink/movies.html and interviewing Americans - http://web.indstate.edu/interlink/interview.html
- Heath Promotion Program Planning - http://www.indstate.edu/hlthsfty/planning/
Self-paced instruction on developing successful health promotion programs.
Indiana University
- The Early Childhood Module Series - http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/~ecc/ecmod.html
Indiana University's Early Childhood Center makes this series of five modules intended "for professionals and parents to help optimize environments and experiences for young children available either singly or as a set.
- Providing Reading & Academic Support for Postsecondary Learners
- http://www.indiana.edu/~l506/modules.htm
The eighteen modules listed at this URL comprise one segment of the online course (for additional information about the course, see http://www.indiana.edu/~l506
- Human Emryology Animations - http://www.indiana.edu/~anat550/embryo_main/index.html
Quicktime animations (plus pre- and post-tests) illustrating the processes that occur in embryologic development.
Purdue University
- GIS@Purdue - http://danpatch.ecn.purdue.edu/~caagis/tgis/overview.html
This online course of five modules introduces students to basic geographic information systems concepts. To access one of the modules, click on a segment in the graphic at upper right.
- Asynchronous Learning Modules in Biomedical Engineering - http://www.bioscope.org/IHETS/
Modules intended to orient the learner to fundamental engineering concepts necessary for the education of the next-generation of biomedical engineers. The modules on Biomaterials cover Materials Science and Engineering concepts with Biology to understand how to design better biomaterials. The modules on Biomechanics cover Mechanical Engineering concepts with Biology in order understand cell and tissue responses to mechanical forces.
- Introductory Guide to Critical Theory - http://www.sla.purdue.edu/academic/engl/theory/
This collection of self-paced modules developed with support from the 2001-2002 IPSE Grant program is for undergraduate and graduate students who want to learn about or review the basics of critical theory.
University of Notre Dame
- Library Research Tutorial Modules - http://www.nd.edu/~refdept/ct/index.html
"Intended to clarify the research process and describe strategies ... to make it easier ... to locate books, journal articles and other resources housed in the University Libraries of Notre Dame."
University of Southern Indiana
- Sociology and Economics - http://www.usi.edu/libarts/socio/chapter/economics/website.html
As part of its "Historical Overview of the Economy," this course page includes a pointer to a module on the agricultural revolution - http://www.wsu.edu/gened/learn-modules/top_agrev/agrev-index.html - found at Washington State University.
Elsewhere: Beyond Indiana
- The MERLOT project - http://www.merlot.org/Home.po
A collection of high quality interactive online learning materials. Institutions may join this project; there is an annual participation fee, currently $25,000. Exemplary MERLOT submissions are featured on the MERLOT Awards page at http://taste.merlot.org/awards/.
- ESL Training for Teachers - http://humanities.byu.edu:16080/elc/teacher/teacherguidemain.html
Brigham Young University makes available a set of teacher training modules that accompany step-by-step guidelines for teaching English as a second language.
- Interactive Physics Modules -
http://ippex.pppl.gov/
From the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, these animation-rich modules are intended for advanced middle school students. K12 teachers interning at the lab for a summer were involved with their creation.
- Turfgrass - http://www.cas.psu.edu/docs/casdept/Turf/Education/Turgeon/Modules/directory.html#1
Al Turgeon's modules on turfgrass from the Pennsylvania State University:
- Mission: Critical - http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/itl/
An interactive tutorial for critical thinking - available for course credit from San Jose State University:
- Crop Genetics - http://croptechnology.unl.edu/
This module from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources has exciting animations. Choose a lesson, then choose "animations" near the top of the screen.
- Human Dimensions of Global Change - http://www.aag.org/HDGC/Hands_On.html
A set of teaching/learning modules developed collaboratively in summer workshops at Clark University.
- Electronic Music Interactive - http://nmc.uoregon.edu/emi/
"The Electronic Music Interactive Web site , developed with the [University of Oregon's] New Media Center ... contains 38 modules on topics such as the physical properties of sound and the process of digital recording." (from a report in the Chronicle of Higher Education, December 1999)
- Virtual Resource Site for Teaching with Technology - http://www.umuc.edu/virtualteaching/
The module "Using Media to Design Web Courses" is part of a "guided tour of virtual classrooms throughout cyberspace, highlighting a range of interactive components that professors can use in their own online courses." (from a report in the Chronicle of Higher Education, April 2000)
- Froguts - http://www.froguts.com/
A highly interactive and entertaining virtual frog dissection developed with Macromedia Flash.
