TEACHING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
MERLOT can help you find learning materials for IT students and use them effectively. There are a wide variety of IT materials in the MERLOT collection.
You can see all MERLOT IT materials or use the search drop-down list to browse the collection by IT subcategories which include: applications, computer information systems, database, e-commerce, hardware, information literacy, networking, operating systems, programming, security, software engineering, systems analysis, and web.
Use IT Learning Materials
Here are a sample of some types of materials. You can ask your students to:
- View animations to understand information technology terms at:
TECHtionary: World's First and Largest Animated Magazine on Technology
- Understand how a hard drive works through an interactive tutorial at:
Molecular Expressions: Electricity and Magnetism - How a Hard Drive Works
- Experience what it's like to visit a Web page using a screen reader at:
WebAIM: Screen Reader Simulation
- Work through tutorials on a variety of subjects:
Computer viruses
Web languages: XHTML, DHTML, ASP.NET, JavaScript
Java
Boolean operators
Basic research techniques
- Reference information on coding with .NET at:
GotDotNet: The Microsoft .NET Framework Community
Find What You Want With:
MERLOT's Advanced Search
Or the MERLOT Information Technology Federated Search
Read about Learning and Teaching Information Technology
Use custom material from MERLOT's partner  |
| Read an interview about SafariU with Kent Sandoe from the IT Editorial Board. |
| Custom Textbooks |
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Build your own textbooks. |
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- Create a textbook from the highly-reputed publications of O'Reilly and other publishers. |
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- Add your own chapters. Also add transitions, summaries, exercises, etc. |
| E-books |
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With a course subscription, your custom textbook is also available online. |
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- Add multimedia files and links to other online materials. |
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- Develop an online syllabus and update it as needed. |
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