Annotated links to resources on training materials and programmes

This section presents websites that offer access to educational resources in the field of science and ethics. The websites gathered in this section adress academics as well as non-academic target groups alike.

The subject heading “Training Materials and Programmes” emphasises the heterogeneous character of the resources offered by the databases listed which may comprise study courses, syllabi and materials employed in such courses. Therefore the section is splitted into a chapter on training materials, which denotes materials used in courses and training programmes, and one chapter on training courses, which offers access to information on teaching programmes, study courses and exchange programmes concerned with ethics and science.

Some websites presented in this section directly provide materials developed for education of specific target groups in the field of science and ethics. Please take notice of the fact that ETHICSWEB does only provide access to sites providing learning resources. Please check for terms and conditions of the respective provider for usage or employment of the materials provided.

Training Materials

Resources that provide training and teaching materials as well as syllabi are linked in this section. Learning resourcers for training and teaching are provided in this section and can comprise textbooks or abstracts of specific texts as well work sheets and other materials like audio-visual media.

Resources gathered here adress various target groups and learning environments and are not restricted to academic purposes.

Bibliographic information about those specific Learning Resources might also be also available via the ETHICSWEB literature search. Please check the legal terms of the respective provider to learn more about the copyright status of the provided resources.

Information about specific curricula and courses as well as academic exchange programmes can be found in the respective section Training Programmes and Courses.

Bioethics Education Project (beep)

Alternative title
beep

URL
http://www.beep.ac.uk/content/481.0.html

Provider
Graduate School of Education. University of Bristol

Description
The portal provides information on manifold bioethical topics especially designed for secondary school science teachers and their students. Further links to the issue are provided too.

Languages
English

Keywords
Bioethics; Teaching materials; United Kingdom

Bioethics Resources on the Web

Alternative title
Bioethics Resources on the Web – Academic Centres and Educational Sites

URL
http://bioethics.od.nih.gov/academic.html

Provider
National Institutes of Health

Description
The site provides a list of links to bioethical educational centres and teaching materials provided by them. The scope is restricted to North America.

Languages
English

Keywords
Bioethics; Teaching materials; North America

Center for Neuroscience & Society

Alternative title
University of Pennsylvania – Center for Neuroscience & Society

URL
http://www.neuroethics.upenn.edu/index.php/education/teaching-resources

Provider
University of Pennsylvania

Description
The Center for Neuroscience and Society provides educational resources, including Syllabi, designed for teachers of graduate as well as undergraduate students in the field Neuroscience and Society.

Languages
English

Keywords
Neurosciences; Neuroethics; Society; Teaching materials; Education; United States

Ethics CORE

Alternative title
Ethics Core Beta – Collaboratrive Online Resource Environment

URL
http://nationalethicsresourcecenter.net/index.php

Provider
University of Illinois

Description
The Ethics CORE Digital Library is funded by The National Science Foundation with a mission to bring together information on best practices in research, ethics instruction and responding to ethical problems that arise in research and professional life. The portal serves as a collaborative resource environment where groups of researchers develop, gather, preserve and provide access to resources related to professional or research ethics in many areas. Amongst others, the site provides free access to selected academic teaching materials.

Languages
English

Keywords
Professional ethics; Research ethics; Teaching materials; Natural sciences; Social sciences; Databases; Technology; United States

EuroStemCell

Alternative title
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URL
http://www.eurostemcell.org/resources

Provider
EuroStemCells

Description
The portal of EuroStemCells provide comprehenisve information about stem cells and regenrative medicine. Amongst others, the portal provides resources for researches and interested public alike. Amongst others the protal provides general information about stem cells, news from the scientific community as well as a searchable database for learning resources. Other informative resources comprise important organisations in the field, an experts database, and further linkage to stem cell related resources.

Languages
English

Keywords
Stem cell research; Stem cells; Regenerative medicine; Teaching materials; Europe; Expertise; Databases;

European Network of Research Ethics Committees (EUREC)

Alternative title
EUREC

URL
http://www.eurecnet.org/materials/index.html

Provider
EUREC

Description
The website provides access to training materials of interrest in regard to research ethics committees. For more information on Eurec please refer to the EC ethics project section.

Languages
English

Keywords
Research ethics; Curriculum; Europe

FIRST

Alternative title
Fostering Integrity in Research, Scholarship, and Teaching

URL
http://www.research.umn.edu/ethics/index.html

Provider
Office of the Vice President for Research
University of Minnesota

Description
The portal of the University of Minnesota provides to access online learning resources covering various ethical aspects of research.

Languages
English

Keywords
Teaching materials; Research ethics;

Global Ethics Observatory Database 6: Ethics Resources (GEOBs 6)

Alternative title
GEObs 6

URL
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/themes/global-ethics-observatory/access-geobs/

Provider
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)

Description
The database provides access to ethics resources comprising, among others, resources of the UNESCO bioethics core curriculum.

Languages
Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish

Keywords
Bioethics; Curriculum

KELDAmed

Alternative title
KELDAmed - an annotated medical e-learning database

URL
http://www.umm.uni-heidelberg.de/apps/bibl/KELDAmed/index_e.html

Provider
University of Heidelberg

Description
The site provides a searchable database of teaching materials. Full texts are linked where available.

Languages
German, English

Keywords
Medicine; Teaching materials

National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature at Georgetown University - Resources for Educators

Alternative title
Resources for Educators

URL
http://bioethics.georgetown.edu/resources/foreducators/index.html

Provider
Library & Information Services, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University

Description
The website provides information on educational resources for teachers and educators in bioethics.

Languages
English

Keywords
America; Teaching materials; Education

OnlineEthics

Alternative title
Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Research

URL
http://www.onlineethics.org/Education.aspx

Provider
National Academy of Engineering of the National Academies

Description
The site provides resources on the ethics of engineering and research comprising educational training materials like exercises, syllabi, and further teaching tools not restricted to higher education.

Languages
English

Keywords
Teaching materials; Professional competence; USA; Natural Sciences; Technology ethics

Physics & Ethics Education Project (peep)

Alternative title
peep

URL
http://www.peep.ac.uk/content/index.php

Provider
Graduate School of Education. University of Bristol

Description
The website provides information on physics and ethics for secondary school science teachers and their students. It provides free teaching resources like games, worksheets, or video clips.

Languages
English

Keywords
Physics; Ethics; Technology ethics; Teaching materials

Syllabus Exchange Database of the National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature at Georgetown University

Alternative title
Syllabus Exchange Database

URL
http://bioethics.georgetown.edu/databases/syllabus/index.html

Provider
Bioethics Research Library, Kennedy Institute, Georgetown University

Description
The searchable database provides bioethics syllabi accessible as full text documents. Furthermore the site provides links to further learning materials worlwide with focus on the United States of America.

Languages
English

Keywords
Education; United States

TRREE

Alternative title
Training and Resources in Research Ethics Evaluation

URL
http://elearning.trree.org/

Provider
TRREE

Description
TRREE is a web-based provider of training programs and aims at capacity building in regard to ethics of research involving humans. The site provides open access to multi-lingual web-based e-learning resources as well as information about the legal frameworks of selected countries.

Languages
German, English, French, Portugese

Keywords
Research ethics; Teaching materials; Research ethics committees; Africa; Europe

Watch

Alternative title
Watch. Free e-learning resources in Life Sciences on the Internet

URL
http://www.umm.uni-heidelberg.de/apps/bibl/KELDAmed/watch.html

Provider
University of Heidelberg

Description
Searchable database comprising e-learning materials regarding the life sciences.

Languages
German, English

Keywords
Teaching materials; Life science;

Training Programmes and Courses

This section predominantly provides weblinks to information regarding Training Programmes and Courses which are not necessarly restricted to science and ethics. Although specific courses are available in this field there are hardly respective databases in existence. Information about study courses and training opportunities is often collected on the website of the respective provider, but it seldom is available for a broader public. ETHICSWEB strives to establish a database that willl provide easy access to specific courses providing educational opportunities in the field of science and ethics.

Consequently most offers collected here have a broader scope and are concerned with exchange opportunities in general. More specific databases especially collecting programmes and courses concerned with the field of science and ethics have been included as they have been identified by ETHICSWEB.

Specific Training and Teaching materials which can be deployed in actual courses are collected in the section Training Materials and can also be found with the ETHICSWEB literature search.

BioethicsWeb

Alternative title
Intute. Helping you find the best websites for study and research

URL
http://www.intute.ac.uk/training.html

Provider
The Intute Consortium

Description
The portal serves as a gateway to evaluated webresources in the field of bioethics comprising, among others, online tutorials for internet research in the various fields of science and ethics.

Languages
English

Keywords
Bioethics; Education; Research

Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES)

Alternative title
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URL
http://www.cies.org/

Provider
Council for International Exchange of Scolars

Description
The website provides information on scholary exchange programmes in the United states and beyond. Focus is on U.S. scholars and institutions.

Languages
English

Keywords
Education; Europe; Asia and the Pacific; America

Database on Education Exchange Programmes (DEEP)

Alternative title
DEEP

URL
http://deep.asef.org/index.asp

Provider
Asia-Europe Foundation

Description
The searchable database provides information on exchange programmes between Asia and Europe and links to the existing programmes.

Languages
English

Keywords
Education; Europe; Asia and the Pacific; Curriculum

Global Ethics Observatory Database 3: Ethics Teaching Programmes (GEOBs 3)

Alternative title
GEObs 3

URL
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/themes/ethics-of-science-and-technology/global-ethics-observatory/access-geobs/

Provider
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)

Description
The UNESCO database provides descriptions of teaching programmes within the field of ethics worldwide.

Languages
Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish

Keywords
Europe; America; Asia and the Pacific; Africa; Education; Ethics; Curriculum

globalgateway

Alternative title
globalgateway – bringing a international dimension to education

URL
http://www.globalgateway.org.uk/default.aspx?page=5036

Provider
Department for Children, Schools and Families

Description
The website provides general information about school exchanges with schools in the UK. It adresses teachers and other persons responsible and provides, among others, a searchable partner database comprising schools worldwide.

Languages
English

Keywords
Education; Europe; America; Africa; Asia and the Pacific; England