LibGuides: SCoE: Best Practices in Teaching Online: Home

Purpose

Welcome to the library research guide for teaching online.

Here, you'll find the best resources (articles, books, and more) to help you succeed in your program.

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Research Best Bets

Browse all of NU Library's databases on the A to Z database list.

EBSCO Databases for Educators
Find articles covering all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties in this database group.

Education Research Complete This link opens in a new window
Content: An education database covering curriculum instruction, administration, policy, funding, and related social issues.
Purpose: A specialized database for academic, scholarly, and peer-reviewed resources in the field of education.
Special Features: Includes a tool to discover citing articles, text-to-speech feature for some articles, and a thesaurus feature to assist you in the discovery process.
It also covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues.
ProQuest Education Database This link opens in a new window
Content: Includes full-text scholarly journals and dissertations supporting research on the theory and practice of education. It also covers literature and research on special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics.
Purpose: Provides access to a large range of full-text journals and dissertations supporting research on the theory and practice of education..
Special Features: Includes a read-aloud feature.
ERIC This link opens in a new window
Content: Government (Department of Education) database focusing on education research and information.
Purpose: Excellent database to use for all topics in education.
Special Features: After an initial search, filter by audience, grade level, survey used, and main topic. Includes a thesaurus to aid in the discovery process.
Help using this database.
This federally subsidized database indexes both journals and other resources important to educators.

ERIC Journals (EJ): journal articles
ERIC Documents (ED): all non-journal materials (some books, unpublished reports, and presentations)

Some faculty limit use of EDs
Gale OneFile: Educator's Reference Complete This link opens in a new window
Content: Journals, books and magazines covering preschool to college levels and bilingual education studies, health, technology and testing.
Purpose: A great resource for any educator—from the school teacher and administrator to those studying in the field at the collegiate and graduate level.
Special Features: Includes a visualization tool and browse by topic feature that aids in brainstorming topics, a Lexile feature that filters texts by difficulty, the ability to highlight and add notes to text, and a read-aloud feature.
SAGE Journals This link opens in a new window
Content: Scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles only, in health science, biomedical science, engineering, social science, and the humanities.
Purpose: Use for scholarly research in most fields.
Special Features: Includes discipline hubs for browsing and citation search.