Do you know of a database or collection we are missing for Child Development? Email jeff.benedetti-coomber@csuci.edu if you do as we are always modifying and adding to this collection and would love your input. Also reach out if any of the links are not working.
Child Development Resources
Textbooks
BC campus provides the textbook "Complexities, Capacities, Communities: Changing Development Narratives in Early Childhood Education, Care and Development."
Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) an OER search database with textbooks, courses and more. It is being developed by SUNY Geneseo's Milne Library. You can conduct a basic search or search by subject. Like all of these OASIS is constantly being added to.
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.
Open Textbook Library- A database of OER textbooks of various subjects and different creative commons licenses. Run through the University of Minnesota with over 1600 textbooks to look through. Open Textbook Library is constantly updated with new materials and editions being added regularly.
Milne Library Publishing at SUNY Geneseo manages and maintains Milne Open Textbooks, a catalog of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY faculty and staff.
This resource provides textbooks on children, youth and families.
Both a collection of open access publications and a publishing platform with a focus on social sciences and humanities.
OER Commons provides a curated collection of textbooks and resources for child development studies.
The BCcampus Open Education OER by Discipline Guide lists a wide range of open educational resources, including textbooks and courses, organized by discipline.
Courses and Videos
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."
Additional Resources
This is a site dedicated to "Assisting parents and families in understanding developmental, behavioral, 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.
nformation about child welfare, child abuse and neglect, adoption, search and reunion from the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children & Families, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
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
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).