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If you search the web long enough, you will probably find any educational material you want. There is, however, an easier way. Use specific education search engines. These will find research material, material from specific countries, policies, planning and more. Some provide access to resources from lesson plans to units of work with all materials required to complete them.
This page gives access to numerous education search engines. The first of these is EdNa, an Australian search engine providing an array of responses with an emphasis on Australian material. A second group contains special search resources with a third group providing additional options.
We are happy to consider further inclusions.
EdNA Search Engines
Don’t forget to access the EdNa [Australia] search engines. The first is a simple search box. The second allows for far greater options. You can find them below. They equire Javascript → ON, to be used.
Other Search Engines
| All Academic Research | ‘Welcome to the research home page. You can find research documents by searching or select from the menu on the left side of the page to find free journals and additional resources.’ |
| ERIC Education Resources Information Center | ‘An online digital library of education research and information. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC provides ready access to education literature to support the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research.’ |
| AEShareNet | ‘Connects people who are looking for learning materials with those who own them.’ 23 000+ registered learning materials. |
| Australasian Education Directory Online | ‘A concise accurate guide to educational institutions and related organisations, listing over 700 organisations.’ You need to be able to log in. |
| British Education Index | ‘A freely accessible database of the full text of conference papers, working papers and electronic literature which supports educational research, policy and practice.’ Some subscription services. Previously known as Education-line |
| Educational Evidence Portal | ‘This portal helps you find educational evidence from a range of reputable sources using a single search. It is designed for both professional and lay people interested in education. The search will retrieve documents from the websites of all the organisations associated with EEP that contain any of the words you have entered.’ UK based. |
| Education Planet | ‘Quality Web Resources for students and teachers. Quickly search online educational resources.’ |
| Education World | Search areas from lesson planning, professional development, administration, technology integration to school issues among others. |
| Education Search Engine [Swicki] | ‘A search engine for everything related to education and culture. Swickis are a cross between search engines and Wikipedia - the community can add, delete and improve the results’. |
| EduSearch | ‘One of the most comprehensive search portals dedicated to providing information from across all of Australia’s educational institutions … ’. |
| InfoMine | Search ‘Scholarly Internet Resource Collections’. Browse for specific information or search by subject categories. |
| SearchEdu.com | SearchEdu has over 15 million university and education pages indexed and ranked in order of popularity. |
More Education Search Engines
- Academicinfo
‘An independent online subject directory of over 25 000 hand-picked educational resources for high school and college students as well as a directory of online degree programs and admissions test preparation resources.’ US-based. - Australian Digital Theses Program
‘The aim of the ADT program is to establish a distributed database of digital versions of theses produced by the postgraduate research students at Australian universities. The ideal behind the program is to provide access to, and promote Australian research to the international community.’ - California Learning Resource Network
‘Find and compare electronic learning resources and Free web information links !’ - Content Standard
‘A compendium of content standards and benchmarks for K-12 education in both searchable and browsable formats.’ -
DiscoverEd
‘Discover the Universe of Open Educational Resources’. Previously only a demo, now fully launched. - EBSCO
Library information. Fee-based. - Educating.net
Education portal for all quality educational services on the Internet, including K-12, college & university, professional development, fun learning, libraru references, continuing education and more. -
Education Search Engines
Annotated links to a range of search engines from Search Engine Guide. - EducatorsNet
‘The World’s #1 Education Search Engine. Over 10 000 Reviewed Listings and Growing !’ Presently being reconstructed. Search facilities are not affected.. - ed-u.com, The Transatlantic Education Mega-Site
‘Ed-u.com is a huge education resource that has moved all of the Web addresses that you will ever need, to just one address.’ - EduFind
Language Resources & information.
There appear to be some problems with this site. It will be maintained only until the next update unless these are resolved. - Facing the Test
Online tests. - Gateway to 21st Century Skills
Welcome to GEM. US Department of Education. Thousands of resources and links. Many ways of narrowing your search - subjects, type, level, keyword, … - Google Scholar
‘Simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature : peer-reviewed papers,theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.’ - Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators
‘Categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth.’ -
National Center for Education Statistics
More along the lines of DMOZ than Google, covering ‘collecting and analysing data related to education’. US data. - OER Commons
‘A global teaching and learning network of free-to-use resources - from K-12 lesson plans to college courseware.’ - Proquest
Dissertation abstracts database. - Searchquarium
‘Custom Education Search Engines for Grade Levels, Subject Areas, and Instructional Technology Topics,’ - The Educator’s Reference Desk
‘2 000+ lesson plans, 3 000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses.’ - Thinkfinity
Internet content for the classroom. Previously Marco Polo.