Portuguese is the fifth most widely spoken language in the world, with over 260 million speakers not only in Portugal and Brazil, but also in Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique, and other countries. King's College of London offers this collection of websites, podcasts, grammar guides, online dictionaries, and more for readers interested in learning Portuguese. While some of these resources are...

This website is a collaborative project started by a language enthusiast that not only aims to help language learners, but also to "provide a window into the culture of the people who speak those languages." So how does the site accomplish this feat? It provides interactive language lessons, quizzes, and texts that allow the language learner to hear the word or text pronounced by fluent, often...

Looking back to the late nineteenth century, one can find traces of the earliest distance education learning programs at the university level at places like the University of Chicago and Columbia University. It would take six decades before an entire university was created specifically as a distance teaching institution, and it would happen on the other side of the Atlantic. This school is Open...

This OpenCourseWare offering from MIT begins fittingly, with an architectural detail of Libra the Scales from the Autun Cathedral in France. This course was originally taught in the fall of 2009 by Professor Julia Markovits, and the course is a seminar on "classic and contemporary work on central topics in ethics." Some of the questions addressed by these materials include "What makes our actions...

The Purdue Online Writing Lab (or OWL, as it is affectionately known) is one of the world's most popular online writing resources. So it is no surprise that this list of ESL Teacher Resources is as inviting as it is comprehensive. As the site notes, the list contains resources both theoretical and practical; it links to organizations and journals as well as to online teaching and reference...

The Harvard University Library has worked closely with a vast array of information technology specialists and others to craft this fine collection of research guides. From African Studies to Zoology, each guide contains information culled from both print resources at Harvard's libraries to a plethora of digital resources from around the Internet. There are a number of particularly rich guides...

Teachnet.Com was started by a husband and wife team--Lee Shiney who is a graphic designer and writer, and Lajean Shiney who is an elementary school teacher in Wichita, Kan. Their website offers multiple resources for teachers, including lesson plan ideas in mathematics, science, technology and many other subject areas. A section called Power Tools offers ideas and services that can simplify a...