Women's International Center
Tools for Online Education AND FOR TEACHING
(TOES: promoting intellectual mobility)

Women's International Center is growing an online network providing education tools for anyone in the world with access to an internet connection: TOES Tools for Online Education, promoting intellectual mobility. Women's International Center's business model is cooperative instead of competitive, please help us build our network by providing educational tools that we may post in our network and we will link back to your initiatives with a description of your work. Some of Women's International Center's online information will be included on software created by Compass Learning. Women's International Center was also chosen to be part of a research project conducted by Northern Illinois University that explores in what ways and with what effect U.S. interest groups and nongovernmental organizations are seeking to improve the status of women globally. Researcher Rachel Walker (under the direction of Professor Berrell) conducted an exclusive interview with Women's International Center to gather specific information for her study whose findings will be shared in the future.

Assignment for any classes that feature writing:
Write about an important woman role model in your life, living or not.
Write about what you have learned from your Great Grandmother, Grandmother, and/or Mother.
Write about how your Aunt, Sister, Cousin or Niece has inspired you.
Write about how any feminine mythical or religious (any religion) figure has positively influenced you.

Online Educational Resources - Most of these are free:

  • Open Education Database - 200 Free Online Classes to Learn Anything from reputed colleges like Yale, MIT, and Tufts - http://oedb.org/library/beginning-online-learning/200-free-online-classes-to-learn-anything/
  • MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA USA - More than 1,800 free online courses using Open Courseware - http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm more than 1,800 free online courses using Open Course Ware
  • United Kingdom's largest academic institution, provides free learning through the Open University. It gives everyone free access to undergraduate & graduate-level materials from the University. http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/
  • Tufts University Open Course Ware - Part of a new educational movement initiated by MIT that provides free access to course content for everyone online, including Medicine, Nutrition, Veterinary, Arts & Science, and more. Tufts OCW Publishes Tufts course materials, does not require any registration, does not grant credit, degrees, or certificates, does not provide access to Tufts faculty; however feedback is shared. Medford, Massachusetts, USA - http://ocw.tufts.edu
  • Stanford University, CA, USA - Quality Online Education Free of Charge using iTunes - Coding Together: Apps for iPhone and iPad - http://itunes.stanford.edu/
  • Utah State University, USA - Open Course Ware - http://ocw.usu.edu/
  • Small Business Development Center Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, USA - Over 90 Free Online Learning Programs - http://www.kutztownsbdc.org/course_listing.asp
  • University of Southern Queensland, Australia - Open Course Ware - http://ocw.usq.edu.au
  • University of California Irvine, USA - Open Course Ware - http://ocw.uci.edu/Welcome.aspx
  • Open Education Database - 200 Free Online Classes to Learn Anything from reputed colleges like Yale, MIT, and Tufts - http://oedb.org/library/beginning-online-learning/200-free-online-classes-to-learn-anything
  • MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA USA - More than 1,800 free online courses using Open Courseware - http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm more than 1,800 free online courses using Open Course Ware
  • United Kingdom's largest academic institution, provides free learning through the Open University. It gives everyone free access to undergraduate & graduate-level materials from the University. http://openlearn.open.ac.uk
  • Tufts University Open Course Ware - Part of a new educational movement initiated by MIT that provides free access to course content for everyone online, including Medicine, Nutrition, Veterinary, Arts & Science, and more. Tufts OCW Publishes Tufts course materials, does not require any registration, does not grant credit, degrees, or certificates, does not provide access to Tufts faculty; however feedback is shared. Medford, Massachusetts, USA - http://ocw.tufts.edu
  • Stanford University, CA, USA - Quality Online Education Free of Charge using iTunes - Coding Together: Apps for iPhone and iPad - http://itunes.stanford.edu
  • Utah State University, USA - Open Course Ware - http://ocw.usu.edu
  • Small Business Development Center Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, USA - Over 90 Free Online Learning Programs - http://www.kutztownsbdc.org/course_listing.asp
  • University of Southern Queensland, Australia - Open Course Ware - http://ocw.usq.edu.au
  • University of California Irvine, USA - Open Course Ware - http://ocw.uci.edu/Welcome.aspx

Class Act Arts http://www.classactarts.org
The Children's Global Art & Culture Connection. School art programs in the United States support children in third world countries. Local school children adopt a class in a developing country through the Class-ACT Children's Creative Art Link. Through this process teachers and classrooms across time zones, countries, and cultures, create meaningful connections and provide possibilities for future generations. Helping families improve their quality of life through microcredit programs for mothers and arts education for children, both locally and in the developing world.

Surface Language http://www.surfacelanguages.com
Surface Languages is an online resource website that offers free learning of thirty-nine different languages. It is a very user-friendly website that is free of charge and there is no need to download files or install any programs. It offers a way to learn basic to intermediate levels of a foreign language by using different interactive exercises. Some of the tools offered are vocabulary, grammar, useful phrases related to different topics, flashcards, audio, games and a variety of tests. It is ideal for people traveling who need a quick start.

Global Journal Project http://www.thegjp.org
Global Journal Project is a non-profit organization that enables school communities to share stories and form relationships across international and cultural boundaries by raising awareness of global issues through the perspectives of member communities. Private, public, and international schools collaborate in a student-run business to produce a print and online magazine with contents from partner-school communities. The profits earned by the chapters are reinvested in service through community-based educational events and member-selected philanthropic projects.

Educational Offer from Women's International Center

Alva, That Vanderbilt-Belmont Woman
Women's International Center will donate the book Alva to any and all schools that have a Women's Studies program. This award-winning, thoroughly researched, beautifully produced and written book about one of the great women leaders should be in the hands of those who are inspired by social conscience, dedication and generosity. (Limited copies available, so please reserve soon.)
Alva, That Vanderbilt-Belmont Woman by Margaret Hayden Rector
The first biography of one of America's wealthiest and most powerful women who was the Manager and Financier of the American Woman's Suffrage Movement...now in its third printing. WIC is delighted to have the opportunity to share our good fortune with any educators, students and women leaders. Women's International Center proudly offers Alva to you for a $20 tax deductible contribution (includes shipping and handling).
ALVA - http://www.wic.org/misc/alva.htm

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