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General Teaching Psychology Resources

Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) provides a collection of online teaching and faculty development services. This is a program of the California State University System partnering with education institutions, professional societies, and industry. The learning materials are contributed and used by an international education community as a free and open resource. There are great collections of teaching and learning materials for psychology under the category of Social Sciences/Psychology''': on APA Style and Manuscript Preparation, Biological, Clinical and Counseling, Cognitive, Community and Health, Developmental, Diversity, Ethics, General, History and Systems, Industrial and Organizational, Learning and Memory, Personality, Sensation and Perception, Social Psychology, Statistics and Research Methods.

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Psychological Experiments Online is a multimedia online resource that summarizes the important psychological experiments of the 20th and 21st centuries. It helps deeper understanding for students. The collection presents 75 hours of audio and video recordings of the original experiments and 40,000 pages of primary-source documents. These include notes from experiment participants, journal articles, books, field notes, videos of replications and modifications to the original experiments. These materials help to understand key psychological issues such as conformity, power, obedience, delayed gratification, responsibility, aggression, conditioning, false memory, bias, prejudice, ethics, nurture, motivation, perception, and judgment.

AcademicEarth.org AcademicEarth.org is an open education site that provides access to free educational resources; they compile a thorough listing of free online courses, free peer-reviewed journals, professional trade magazines, and more. This is a great collection of information for anyone interested in learning about the field of psychology. Students can preview this academic field through several online psychology courses, made available for free from some of the best universities.

Noba Project Noba is a free online platform that provides high-quality, flexibly structured textbooks and educational materials. The textbooks and materials are licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International License. Users may reuse, redistribute, and remix the content to suit their needs. Noba provides students an access to free educational content, provides instructors with a platform to customize educational content to better suit their needs, presents free, high-quality material written by a collection of experts and authorities in the field of psychology.

Questia. Read full-text books and articles on Teaching Psychology

Association for Psychological Science: Teaching Resource

Web site contains link to general materials as well as teaching materials on Behavioral, Biological Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Educational Psychology, Evolutionary Psychology, Forensic Psychology, Health Psychology, History and Systems, Research Methods, Sensation and Perception, Social Psychology, Statistics.

Society for the Teaching of Psychology: Office of Teaching Resources in Psychology (USA)

The Office of Teaching Resources in Psychology (OTRP) develops and distributes teaching and advising materials and provides services to teachers of psychology at all levels on behalf of The Society for the Teaching of Psychology.

Resourcd (UK)

Resourcd is a community of teachers sharing resources, videos and ideas created by Jamie Davies and Mark Holah. On this website generous psychology teachers share resources with each other: their handouts, powerpoints, quizzes, videos and other resources.

Teaching Psychology Resource: AUTC project (Australia)

At this web site you will find useful resources relating to the teaching of psychology that Australian University Teaching Committee (AUTC)project developed. These Resources are nationally oriented database that have compiled the course documents, identified the pathways through undergraduate programs to post-graduate opportunities, identified both formal and informal mechanisms by which curriculum development takes place in psychology. The resources describe innovative practices in the teaching of psychology, particularly in response to challenges from current changes in the higher education (e.g., internationalisation, technological developments).

Films on Demand: Digital Educational Video

Films On Demand is the web-based digital video delivery service that allows to view streaming video from Films Media Group anytime, anywhere, 24/7. Educational titles are in various subject areas. A great collection of educational films on Humanities and Social Sciences includes Psychology:films and segments on INtroduction to Psychology, Biological, Cognitive, Developmental, Social, Abnormal Psychology, Gender and Sexuality. Films On Demand delivers high-quality digital video for students and faculty through online catalogs, distance learning courses and learning management systems. The films are available in full or by short segments. Special features allow users the ability to organize and bookmark clips, share playlists, and personalize folders.


Massachusetts Institute of Technology OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all course content. OCW is open and available to the world. The resource has many free on-line course materials in the section of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Brain and Cognitive Sciences.


Annenberg Learner's multimedia resources help teachers of various discipline increase their expertise in their fields and assist them in improving their teaching methods. Many programs are also intended for students in the classroom and viewers at home. All Annenberg Learner videos exemplify excellent teaching. You can find several psychology programs there:

The Brain: Teaching Modules. These flexible resources offer extensive footage and research into the brain, including findings on Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, autism, Parkinson's disease, and many other topics. The modules are appropriate for use in general and advanced courses in psychology, abnormal and physiological psychology, neuropsychology, and occupational therapy.

Discovering Psychology: Updated Edition. The program offers high school and college students, and teachers of psychology at all levels, an overview of historic and current theories of human behavior. Stanford University professor Zimbardo narrates as leading researchers, practitioners, and theorists probe the mysteries of the mind and body. This introductory course in psychology features demonstrations, classic experiments and simulations, current research, documentary footage, and computer animation.

Growing Old: in a New Age. The program reviews the experiences of 75 diverse elders as related to their aging. The series examines common misconceptions about aging and provides a springboard for analyzing new roles for elders, intergenerational alliances, resource allocation, and artificial attempts to prolong life. These programs are particularly useful for students of psychology, gerontology, sociology, family studies, human development, and health sciences.

The Mind: Teaching Modules. These programs explore cognition and human behavior. The modules present current findings on language processing, drug treatment and addictions, and cognitive development throughout the life span. The programs also cover mood and personality disorders, and pain and its treatment. These modules are flexible additions to courses in psychology, abnormal and physiological psychology, neuropsychology, and occupational therapy.

Seasons of Life. These programs are an excellent introduction to developmental psychology from conception through old age. This series explores the biological, psychological, and social "clocks" of the life-span. Psychologists, sociologists, biologists, and anthropologists present theory, methods, and research. The real individuals from diverse backgrounds talk about the significant events in their lives

The World of Abnormal Psychology. The programs present how people with psychological disorders behave. Case studies, enriched with commentary from experts, help demystify the biological, psychological, and environmental causes of dysfunctional behavior. The series explains current theory and practice in the treatment of the mentally ill. It covers the multiple approaches that prevail in Abnormal Psychology today.


Resource Manual for New Teachers of High School Psychology The webpage presents high school psychology teachers with some resources and helpful suggestions from teachers with many years of teaching experience. The resource provides suggestions for preparing to teach psychology, textbook selection, course-pacing formats, and lesson planning - the underpinnings of an effective psychology class. It also addresses specific issues faced by high school psychology teachers and helps new teachers be proactive when deciding how to run their class, make rules, and make daily ethical decisions. The resource is very useful to teachers new to the teaching of psychology.


Teaching Resource for Psychology Teachers at Community Colleges Teaching tips, activities, articles and demonstrations to share with psychology teachers. Resources from veteran teachers of psychology on how to best teach an introductory psychology course at a community college.