UIUC Learning Resource Server

Welcome to the Learning Resource Server (LRS) at the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The LRS is a suite of servers that distribute and mediate electronic learning resources for K-12 teachers and students, pre-service teachers, education faculty members and educational researchers. It is an effort supported by the Teaching TeleApprenticeships research project, which also serves the instructional, research, and service missions of the College of Education.

Learning Resources

• LRS Gopher Server
• College of Education Annoucements
• "Computer Uses in Education" (Educational Psychology 387) is an Education class using the Web to jointly construct a Web document on computer uses in education.
• "Analysis of Advanced Instructional Technologies" (Educational Psychology 490I) is another Education class exploring educational uses of the Web.
• "Electronic Networks for Education" (Curriculum & Instruction 300CN)
• The Year-Long Project (YLP) is one of the innovative pilot student teaching programs in the College of Education at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign.
• "Introduction to the Teaching of Secondary School Subjects" (Curriculum & Instruction 101/219)
• "Secondary Science Methods" (Curriculum & Instruction 241)
• "Secondary Math Methods" (Curriculum & Instruction 241 MS)
• "Psychometric Modeling of Cognitive Assessment" (Educational Psychology 490AV) is another Education class using the Web.
• "Englishes" (Prospective English teachers)
• Technologies for Learning Program
• "English as a second language home page" is a starting point for learners of English who want to learn English on the Web.
• Implementing Macintosh-based information servers in K-12 settingswas a workshop presented at Tel-Ed '94.
• The Office for Mathematics, Science and Technology Education (MSTE) maintains a Web document with a range of resources, including a catalogue of mathematics, science and technology education projects at UIUC.
• Curriculum Resources with AppleSearch Indexes
• Teaching TeleApprenticeships Research Project
• Impact! - Hypertextual newsletter for learners of English as a second/foreign language
• EnergyNet
• Networking Infrastructures for Education is a collaborative project between NCSA, the College of Education, and the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois to explore ways to develop K-12 network infrastructures most effectively.
• LUDA is an organization of the 50 largest unit school districts in the state of Illinois. LUDA is working to bring all its members on to the Internet, as part of a general effort to bring all schools in Illinois on-line.
• The Illinois Learning Mosaic organizes network resources relevant for education across the state of Illinois.
• NCSA's Education Group
• Judi Harris' "Mining the Internet" columns from The Computing Teacher .
• Guidelines for Educational Uses of Networks
• Online Educational Resources from NASA
• Environmental Education on the Internet via EE-Link. Their mission is to spread information and ideas that will help educators explore the environment and investigate current issues with students.
• Netiquette via the Web by Arlene Rinaldi.
• Betty Collis' Spring 1994 course at the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, produced a collaboratively written book Online and Distance Education working with telementors from around the world.
• The White House now has its own Web server, including a multi-media presentation of Socks, the cat.