Educational Resource List

http://www.oecd.org/document/54/ 0,3343,en_2649_33703_38690102_1_1_1_1,00.html

From the website: “The OECD broadband portal provides access to a range of broadband-related statistics gathered by the OECD. Policy makers must examine a range of indicators which reflect the status of individual broadband markets in the OECD. The OECD has indentified five main categories which are important for assessing broadband markets.”

A list of words in Chinese, from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_words_censored_by_search _engines_in_the_People’s_Republic_of_China

A list of English words reputed to be suppressed by/on Google (see page for description of discovery method): http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2006-06-18-n85.html

http://dic.nict.gov.tw/~dic/dic_idx.php?act=query

Taiwanese National Institute for Compilation and Translation provides a dictionary interface.

http://www.niace.org.uk/

From the website: “[NIACE] is a non-governmental organisation working for more and different adult learners.”

http://www.oecd.org/department/0,2688,en_2649_34509_1_1_1_1_1,00.html

From the website: “Lifelong learning for all is the guiding framework for OECD’s work on learning, both formal and informal. Systemic considerations include foundations; outcomes; access and equity; resources; pathways; visibility and recognition; and policy co-ordination.”

http://www.workbase.org.nz

From the website: “To achieve our vision of a literate New Zealand workforce, Workbase supports the workforce literacy field and the active engagement of government agencies and business.

“Workbase is about people, about community, about the workforce – all striving to create a stronger New Zealand through better literacy skills, training and development.”

http://www.ncver.edu.au/

From the website: “…responsible for collecting, managing, analysing, evaluating and communicating research and statistics about vocational education and training (VET).

“NCVER’s vision is for policy and practice in vocational education and training to be based on sound evidence.”

http://www.anglit.net/main/portfolio/default.html

By Judy Kemp & Debby Toperoff, English Inspectorate, Ministry of Education, Israel (August 1998).

http://nrich.maths.org/public/index.php

Provides English-language math instruction for pre/early literacy through high school competency learners. A British site hosted in part through the University of Cambridge.

From the website: “Project aims

• To enrich mathematical experiences by giving students the opportunity to explore and engage with mathematical ideas.
• To offer challenging activities which provide students with opportunities to develop their mathematics.
• To foster a community where students can be involved and supported in their own learning and where effort and achievement is celebrated.
• To provide flexible access to a large, developing resource base.
• To research and develop the use of existing and new technologies to enhance the learning and teaching experience.
• To contribute to national and international debates relating to mathematics teaching and learning.”

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http://www.nald.ca/

From the website: “NALD is an award-winning service that: provides complete, full text documents and books, as well as a resource catalogue designs and hosts websites for literacy organizations researches and organizes educational material found elsewhere on the web connects partners with experts in the field publicizes literacy-related activities and events”

NALD is Canadian.