Looking for good resources for teaching your social science research methods class?

A few weeks ago at SPSA in New Orleans, I heard about a really great website, the Online Portal of Social Science Education in Methodology or OPOSSEM. At their workshop, site contributors Scott Huffmon, Professor at Winthrop University, and  Christopher Lawrence, Visiting Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech, provided a demo of the site and explained that it was developed to enable the sharing of resources for teaching research methods classes (primarily statistics). The site is hosted by McMaster University Libraries and supported by an NSF grant with co-PI’s Shane Nordyke, Jan Box-Steffensmeier, Michelle Dion, Bill Jacoby, and Phil Schrodt.

On the site, data-loving professors have posted syllabi, data sets, assignment ideas, and lecture notes. There is also an open-source, wiki-based textbook in the works that looks like it can easily serve as the primary text for an introductory methods course. The resources are freely available for everyone through a Creative Commons license. However, you must become an approved member to contribute content to the site or rate resources. Check it out!