Education
165 sites
Subcategories:
- Schools & Universities (15)
- Tutorials & How-To (71)
- Reference (78)
https://learnxinyminutes.com/
Learn X in Y Minutes offers quick, community-driven reference tours of dozens of programming languages, from mainstream picks like Python and C++ to esoteric ones like BF and GolfScript. Created by Adam Bard, the site provides annotated code samples that let developers rapidly survey syntax and idioms across an impressive multilingual catalog with translations in over 20 languages.
https://math.dartmouth.edu/archive/c18w99/public_html
The official course page for Dartmouth College's 'Math and Science Fiction' class from Winter 1999, taught by Professors Davies and Trout, exploring the intersection of mathematics and science fiction literature. Featuring a syllabus, assignments, course readings from authors like Isaac Asimov, Greg Egan, and Ursula Le Guin, plus student group project pages covering topics like chaos theory, the Mandelbrot set, and game theory.
https://fieggen.com/shoelace
Ian Fieggen, aka 'Professor Shoelace,' has spent over two decades building the internet's definitive reference on shoelaces, covering more than 100 lacing methods with step-by-step tutorials and thousands of photos. The site is home to the famous Ian Knot, claimed to be the world's fastest shoelace knot, and includes an interactive lacing tool, knot comparisons, and detailed guides on shoelace construction and lengths.
https://teachthechildrenwell.com/
Created by educator Elaine M. Doolittle, M.Ed., this carefully curated link directory points elementary students, parents, and teachers to vetted educational websites covering dozens of topics from Ancient Civilizations to Earth Science. With hundreds of organized links spanning subjects like Math, Language Arts, Social Studies, and Science, it serves as a trusted gateway to quality online learning resources for young learners.
https://lexundria.com/j_aj/1.52-1.71/wst
Lexundria presents the complete text of Flavius Josephus's 'Antiquities of the Jews' in William Whiston's English translation, broken into navigable sections for easy reading and cross-referencing. This digitized classical text covers ancient Jewish history from creation through the first century CE, making it an invaluable scholarly resource for students and researchers of ancient history and biblical studies.
https://cogdog.info/
Alan Levine, known online as CogDog, is a veteran web educator and consultant who has been building open web tools, storytelling projects, and digital learning resources since the early 1990s. His landing page showcases a career devoted to connected learning, open education, WordPress-based tools like SPLOT, and creative web storytelling experiments such as ds106 and 50+ Web 2.0 Ways To Tell a Story.
https://sandradodd.com/
Sandra Dodd's expansive personal site is a deep resource on radical unschooling, offering thousands of short inspirational posts, essays, interviews, and interlinking pages designed to guide parents and learners toward child-led, curiosity-driven education. With books, audio files, a daily inspiration feed called 'Just Add Light and Stir,' and years of accumulated writing, it reads like a passionate lifelong mission to rethink how children learn.
http://fcit.usf.edu/internet/chap1/chap1.htm
Produced by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology at the University of South Florida, this guide walks beginners through the fundamentals of the Internet, from what the web is and how browsers work to navigation basics and productivity tools. It covers the history of the Internet from its ARPA origins through to modern use, making it a solid introductory reference for educators and students alike.
https://cs.odu.edu/~vashok
Vikas Ashok is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Old Dominion University whose research focuses on Human-Centered Computing and AI-driven assistive technologies for people with vision impairments. The page serves as his academic homepage, listing his research lab, contact details, and courses taught including Natural Language Processing, Databases, and Artificial Intelligence.
https://www.cyndislist.com/surnames
Cyndi's List, maintained by Cyndi Ingle since 1996, is one of the web's most comprehensive genealogy link directories, organizing over 317,000 curated links across hundreds of categories including surnames, DNA projects, family associations, and newsletters. This particular section focuses on surname research, offering alphabetically sorted links to family-specific sites, social networking resources, surname mapping tools, and DNA studies for researchers tracing their family history.