EDU 102: Foundations of Education
Encyclopedias
A searchable collection of ebooks, most of which are encyclopedias and other reference materials. Great for background information on a topic.
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Education Today: Concepts, Issues, Policies and Politics
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ISBN: 9781682177129
Education Databases
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ERIC & Education Database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
The Education Resource Information Center's index to articles and documents from scholarly education literature, plus a database including over 1,000 full-text journals. Watch a video on how to use this database.
Books & More
WorldCat
Video
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Academic Video Online: Education
Video content includes demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms. The collection also contains a wealth of ready-to-use teaching tools, including course, study, and discussion guides, assessment checklists, and themed playlists.
oogle Scholar
Google Scholar searches scholarly literature online. Rather than indexing web sites, the engine indexes articles, article and book citations, and theses.
Google Scholar has some advantages:
- It's free to search.
- It's accessible anywhere.
- The "cited by" feature allows you to see what other articles have cited a particular piece of research.
- The tool has nice limiting and refining options.
- Articles you have access to through DeWitt are noted.
There are also disadvantages:
- Not all of the results are free and accessible; many of them require payment or access to a database.
- It does not index everything; many of our databases index more or better research.
- There is no definition of what "scholarly" is; not all of the research you find may fit your professor's definition of scholarly.