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High Impact Practices (HIPS)

LibGuide to explain and illustrate the different HIPS programs at South Piedmont Community College

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PhET provides fun, free, interactive, research-based science and mathematics simulations. PhET extensively test and evaluate each simulation to ensure educational effectiveness. All simulations are open source.

 

The National Science Digital Library provides high quality online educational resources for teaching and learning, with current emphasis on the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines—both formal and informal, institutional and individual, in local, state, national, and international educational settings.  

 

Every course on Coursera is taught by top instructors from world-class universities and companies, so you can learn something new anytime, anywhere. Hundreds of free courses give you access to on-demand video lectures, homework exercises, and community discussion forums. 

 

MIT OpenCourseWare makes the materials used in the teaching of almost all of MIT's subjects available on the Web, free of charge. With more than 2,400 courses available, OCW is delivering on the promise of open sharing of knowledge.

 

Outer space and aeronautical resources for students and teachers

 

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