Curricular Resources & Teaching Modules
See below for email lists and resources to share remote learning ideas with colleagues in your subject area, as well as curricular resources and teaching modules for remote learning.
Sharing Ideas by Subject Area:
Planning for distance learning often varies by subject area, so we encourage sharing ideas by Program area, across campuses.
Those with plans or suggestions to share might consider posting them to the relevant Program email lists so that colleagues at other campuses can also see them. Those lists are:
americanlit@bec.bard.edu americansocsci@bec.bard.edu
biology@bec.bard.edu chemistry@bec.bard.edu
chinese@bec.bard.edu globalsocsci@bec.bard.edu
latin@bec.bard.edu mathematics@bec.bard.edu
pehealth@bec.bard.edu performingarts@bec.bard.edu
physics@bec.bard.edu spanish@bec.bard.edu
specialed@bec.bard.edu visualarts@bec.bard.edu
If you need supplemental course materials, such as textbooks, online courses, film, literature and more, please visit the BHSECQ Library’s Open Educational Resource Google Site. On this site, you will find openly licensed sources that you can adopt,revise, reuse and remix for your courses.
The following databases have provided expanded access to resources during COVID 19:
Texas Instruments - offering free six-month calculator emulator software subscriptions to teachers and students for TI-84 Plus, TI-30XS, TI-34 MultiView and TI-Nspire CX calculators. Calculator:
L.A. Theatre Works (LATW) - Free educational resources for English, Social Studies, Science, Drama, and Elective classes.
Access plays for high school and higher education courses.
90 days free
JSTOR
Access to Open Content - no login required
To access expanded collection - log into your campus' BHSEC account
Project Muse
University of Michigan Press is providing access to their eBook collection.
Cambridge University Press is offering free online access to higher education textbooks and coronavirus research.
Access to content
Textbooks (temporarily removed)
Oxford University Press is providing free access to resources on coronavirus.
Elsevier is providing free access to medical and health resources on coronavirus.
Open Books is providing free access to traditionally canonical academic books during the coronavirus crisis.
Online Writing Instruction Community : This website provides a multitude of resources for online instructors, particularly writing instructors. The website offers info on helpful books, sites, and tools.