Resources

=Sorting through it all: Where can I access quality content?=

There is an array of open source resources available to support your development of online and blended courses. The challenge is sorting through it all looking for quality. Here are some open source educational resources that you may want to look at:
 * What free resources are there for developing quality online courses?**

SAS Curriculum Pathways: Interactive standards-based resources for grades 6-12 in English language arts, science, social studies, mathematics, and Spanish. Free to students and educators in traditional, virtual, and home schools.

OER Commons: Free to use teaching and learning content from around the world.

Finding Education: **FREE educator tool** that **helps you** find the best online resources and share them with **your students**.

Curriki:Has over 40,000 K-12 learning resources including full courses. Members have the ability to contribute to and publish their own resources and connect with other teachers.

Khan Academy: With over [|3,200 videos] on everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and [|hundreds of skills to practice], [|we're on a mission] to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace.

Through the IDEAL-NM program, there are several resources available to support your development of quality online and blended courses. Here are few to start with:
 * What other resources are available to me through the New Mexico Public Education Department?**

Probably the most valuable resource that IDEAL-NM has to offer you is a catalog of 160 semester long courses ready for delivery within the statewide Learning Management System. The courses are
 * [[image:IDEAL-NM_logo_round.JPG width="69" height="62"]]IDEAL-NM Online Course Catalog**
 * developed according to the IDEAL-NM online course framework and criteria for quality
 * reviewed by content and instructional design specialists
 * aligned with New Mexico Content Standards and related benchmarks and performance standards
 * aligned with common core standards (language arts)
 * follow the iNACOL Quality Online Course Standards
 * rigorous
 * personalized
 * interactive
 * engaging

To view the list of IDEAL-NM courses CLICK HERE. To download the course descriptions, which include STARS IDs CLICK HERE.

The IDEAL-NM Hippocampus is a valuable resource for students, teachers, and other educational staff. Our custom Hippocampus site allows users to access without a required log in. The exciting part is through this custom site, **teachers can create their own private sites from the IDEAL-NM Hippo page, where they can customize the content view, bookmark select media, add topic level annotations, create playlists and much more.**
 * IDEAL-NM NROC Hippocampus**

To access the IDEAL-NM Hippocampus CLICK HERE.


 * NROC Courses** nrocnetwork.org
 * The National Repository of Online Courses (NROC)** is a growing library of high-quality online course content for students and faculty in higher education, high school and Advanced Placement*.

NROC identifies and aggregates the best online courses and content available. Working with academic contributors, instructional designers, media producers, and programmers, NROC's editorial staff has created the NROC course development guidelines used to evaluate each course in the library. NROC partners with course developers and contributes additional development resources to ensure that the content is editorially rigorous, curricularly complete, and the technology is compatible with popular content management systems (e.g., BlackBoard). The NROC courses utilize various combinations of video, animation, still graphics, simulations, text and audio to provide a resource beyond the development capacity of most educational institutions and organizations. The courses also focus on student activities, interaction and collaboration that take advantage of online communication tools. The focus of NROC is general education subjects, such as algebra, biology, and U.S. History. Courses include presentational materials, problem sets, assessments, and all necessary teaching materials. Click here to view the NROC course list (pdf).
 * What is an NROC course?**

Submit a request to bbsupport@idealnm.info. Please include the title of the course and indicate that it is an NROC course that you are requesting.
 * How do I access an NROC course?**