Thursday, March 26, 2015

Healthy India

Healthy India endeavors to advance consciousness of disease prevention opportunities, encourage earlier detection and treatment of chronic diseases, and foster healthy living through information and resources on healthy lifestyle. The aim is to enable citizens of India and around the world to achieve wellbeing of mind and body through knowledge-sharing in a simple, interactive and accessible format. The initiative seeks to promote balanced diet, physical activity, lifestyle management, caring for the environment and avoiding tobacco and alcohol related health problems. Information and expert opinion on hot topics such as stress management, blood pressure, diabetes, cancers, heart disease, and stroke and on factors that affect health such as climate change are provided here. The focus of efforts has always been to present information in an imaginative manner that may then create an ambience of change, in both individuals and communities for healthy behaviors and practices. 

Healthy-India.org has been adjudged Winner of the PC World Web Awards 2008, for excellence in overall performance in the healthcare category. The awards were presented across 31 categories and experts rated about 500 websites to declare the website a winner. 
- PC World, July 2008 

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Wednesday, March 4, 2015

College Open Textbooks!

Welcome to College Open Textbooks!


This is the third edition of a core textbook at Scottsdale Community College (SCC). Authored by members of the SCC Math Department faculty, it has been used by thousands of students. Continually improved, it is now part of a comprehensive resource package that includes online help and assessment tools as well as an instructor's guide.  This text represents the very best of professional-grade Open Educational Resources


Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources, Free Educational Resources


Welcome to the Consortium



Our mission is to expand access to education by promoting awareness and adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER).  Over 250 colleges have joined us and many more participate in our activities and use resources on the website.  Find out how to become a member of CCCOER at the Open Education Consortium.

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Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Greenstone Digital Library Sample, Digital Archives Sample, Newspaper Archives sample,