Because of the recent abrupt shift of students and faculty away from campus, this post is about available free resources for teaching science online in higher education, which I hope you will share with your faculty. This list is in no way exhaustive, so please feel free to add any resources in the comments section. Please take care and stay well.

Video Demonstrations for Science Labs

Chemistry

• ChemCollective, Online Resources for Teaching and Learning Chemistry
• Sources of chemical demonstrations, Texas A&M Libraries
• Chemical structure teaching subset, Cambridge Structural Database

Physics

• PhET Physics Interactive Simulations, University of Colorado
• ComPADRE Resources and Services for Physics Education, advanced labs  

Multidisciplinary

• JoVE, the Journal of Visualized Experiments, has made some of their online science videos free through June 15^th, including chemistry, physics, biology, and other STEM fields.
• Guide to creating an online Science Laboratory, Kent State University

Online Instruction in the Sciences

• UNL Libraries guide for open science teaching resources
• A collection of online teaching resources by subject area from the Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
• The Node a community site for and by developmental biologists
• Free online courses from a collection of universities
• Educause online teaching strategies
• Teaching and Learning online resources from Gallaudet University
• Tech Against Coronavirus list of platforms for assisting with online teaching (a commercial site)
• IDEA Design book by iDesign

Laura Palumbo, Chemistry & Physics Librarian/Science Data Specialist, Rutgers University

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