Early Childhood

BC campus provides the textbook “Complexities, Capacities, Communities: Changing Development Narratives in Early Childhood Education, Care and Development.”

The student will outline stages of development, contrast study approaches, and understand different research methods.

MERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community.

This resource provides textbooks on children, youth and families.

OER Commons provides a curated collection of textbooks and resources for child development studies.

Project Gutenberg’s Children’s Book Series. See also, Children’s Fiction (Bookshelf), Children’s Literature (Bookshelf), Children’s Picture Books (Bookshelf), and Children’s Instructional Books (Bookshelf).

The 10 modules include video segments featuring teachers using effective strategies and techniques in the classroom on subjects such as phonemic awareness, phonics, speech sounds, and text comprehension.

Take a course and learn how you can manage challenging behavior in young people or take a course and learn life-saving skills to treat choking, burns, wounds or cardiac arrest in children through this free online first aid course.

Join online teaching courses to support teachers’ professional learning and development. Courses available: Inspiring Young People In STEM: Activities and Improving Communication, Professional Development for Early Career Teachers, Teaching for Success: Learning and Learners, and Build a Makerspace for Young People.

Open Learn provides free courses such as “Childhood in the digital age”, “Early years team work and leadership”, “Infants’ understanding of their social world”, and “Childhood in crisis?”

Watch inspirational and educational TED ED Lessons worth sharing such as “How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime”, “The surprisingly logical minds of babies”, “Lessons from the longest study on human development.”

This site provides open access courses on the topic of child & youth development, including topics such as Human Growth and Development, Intellectual Development, Child Development and the PITS, Promoting Positive Development among Youth, and more.

This is a site dedicated to “Assisting parents and families in understanding developmental, behaviorial, emotional and mental disorders affecting children and adolescents.”

From The Child Abuse Library Online (CALiO) of the National Children’s Advocacy Center (NCAC), “full-text of publications that do not require fee or password. Many of the publications included in this collection were published by state and federal government agencies, and are in the public domain. Others were funded by foundations or other organizations for open access.”

A site “designed to provide the information and tools parents need to understand their unique child/children and to enable them to help each child develop into the successful human being they were meant to be.” Has useful sections about Ages/Stages, Development, Health/Safety, Psychology, and more.

A multidisciplinary, not-for-profit, professional association with an international membership of approximately 5,500 researchers, practitioners, and human development professionals. This site provides free access to some of the articles published in this journal.

Child Development Research is a peer-reviewed open-access journal that publishes original research articles as well as review articles in all areas of child development research.

From the Social Psychology Network, links related to infancy, adoption, childhood development, child protection, parenting, adolescence, and more. Organized by topic.

Open-access, peer-reviewed, bilingual Internet journal in early care and education.

Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

The PBS Digital Learning Library is a public media system-wide repository of digital media learning objects, including videos, images, interactives, audios and documents.