Gifted Education Resources

Gifted students at EMHS are expected to develop the skills and self-awareness necessary to pursue self-directed learning in areas of interest. This is a critical component of the Individualized Education Plan. Students have the ability to create an independent study to explore an aptitude, interest, or idea in depth, and this is excellent preparation for the mentorship experience that offered to upperclassmen.

These resources can be utilized to enhance, enrich, or supplement curriculum of courses or to create the learning plan for an independent study. Many of the online courses include videos of lectures, copies of the lecture notes, and audio files, offering the opportunity to experience what it might be like to sit in a classroom at Yale University listening to a world-renowned expert teaching your class.

General Self-Directed Learning Information

Becoming a Self-directed Learner
The Autonomous Learner Model explained
Creating Curriculum

Open Culture

Self-Directed Learning Resources

Open Courseware Consortium
Open Learning Sites at Universities (many academic disciplines)
Carnegie Mellon University Open Learning Courses
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Open Courseware
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Courses

Notre Dame Open Courseware

Princeton University Archived Lectures

Tufts University Open Courseware

University of California @ Berkeley Free Webcast Courses
University of California @ Irvine Open Courses
University of Massachusetts @ Boston Open Courses
University of Pennsylvania Free Online Books Index
Utah State Open Courseware

Yale University Open Courses

Content-Specific Resources

Math

New York University Free Online Math Textbooks & Lecture Notes
Free Online Math Classes
Introduction to Probability

Linear Algebra

Humanities

American Memory from the Library of Congress
University of Washington Open Courses

Fulbright Economics Teaching Program

Science

Delft University of Technology Open Courses
MadSci 24 Hour Laboratory
NASA for Students

Languages

Free Online Language Courses
Michigan State University's ASL Browser
Conversational Mandarin Chinese

Italian Language & Culture

Technology

Digital Arts
Stanford University Computer Science Courses
Sophia Project Course Gallery