For the growing numbers of us searching for online courses, as well as online educational resources, the portals are quickly growing in both number and size.

Finding the best or most relevant content may be a challenge.  Sites like Kayak take care of of the would-be traveler with a cross-portal search, but what’s the would-be online learner to do?

Redhoop is one answer.  The educational search reaches across 4947 courses (1411 of them, free courses) offered by a growing list of portals, including:

    

Users may search Redhoop by keyword or category and filter their results by price, category or school.  They may also sign up for new course alerts.

Here’s my search for art history courses:

And then there’s all the open educational content (not necessarily courses) that I wish was easier for teachers to discover. At the end of the school year I visited the various departments to share some of the resources and portals I was most excited about.  Because I also wanted to demonstrate a few curation tools, I shared my master list visually in an EdCanvas. I am still working on organizing this to make more sense and I am working on breaking it down to create a few more subject- and media-specific lists. (Please let me know what’s missing!)  As for searching across the portals, I created a Google Custom Search, located in the last tile.  (Unfortunately, I am unable to embed the search in this blog.)

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