Donald Maclean's List: Free Resources (Training Materials)

Improve your workplace skills through interactive multimedia training, education and learning. Choose from our extensive range of free online courses.Very extensive coillection of training materials for software applications, business, human resources, health and safety etc.Free, registration required.

"This unique UK education community hub is your personal signpost to a wealth of realtime resources and debate from across the web. MySMARTSpaces is a new way for UK teachers to connect with this global community; share ideas, swap resources and get the most from SMART whether you have a single SMART Board™ interactive whiteboard or a full SMART Classroom Suite.From blogs and tweets, to lesson resources, videos and shared bookmarks, MySMARTSpaces enables you to join the debate and contribute to the future of UK education."

Hairdressing Training provides you with a range of resources to help with your teaching. These include a suite of web resources with photographic step by step guides combined with lessons and handy tips and techniques, suiting a variety of learning styles. Hairdressing Training is also available via mobile devices. Free, very high quality. Videos available via download, or YouTube

JISC Digital Media exists to help the UK's FE and HE communities embrace and maximise the use of digital media - and to achieve solutions that are innovative, practical and cost effective.

The use of IT in FE and HE raises many legal issues, and institutions must have awareness of compliance issues, and associated legal risk. JISC Legal's primary function is to ensure that legal compliance and legal issues are not, and do not become, obstacles to the use of IT by FE and HE.\n\nJISC Legal broadens the awareness of the issues and explains the implications of IT law by making available current legal information to those working in UK FE and HE and in particular those working in Information Services.\n\n'Information Services' includes those involved in Central Services, IT Services, Library Services, Media Services and those using information technology for educational purposes in general. Examples include system administrators, web managers, media services content and design staff, educational technologists, librarians responsible for legal issues such as copyright, Records Managers and Legal Compliance officers.\n\nHowever JISC Legal is here to help all staff whatever their job title, academic discipline or grade.\n

The infoKits contain a wealth of 'self-help' material, such as simple methodologies to manage projects, risk and change, as well as landscape views of the sector to encourage creativity, from image galleries of inspiring buildings to soundbites from learners engaged with e-portfolios. They also include a range of case studies that give wide exposure to practice that has been applied in the further and higher education sectors. Subjects include: Bologna Process, Business and Community Engagement (BCE), Change Management, Collaborative Approaches to the Management of e-Learning (CAMEL), Contract Negotiation, Creating a Managed Learning Environment (MLE), Curriculum Design & Delivery, Digital Repositories, Embedding Business and Community Engagement, Effective Use of Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs), Email Management, e-Portfolios, Flexible Service Delivery, ICT Implications of the Research Excellence Framework (REF), Implementing an Electronic Document and Records Management (EDRM) System, Implementing e-Learning - A Toolkit for InstitutionsImplementing the Ferl Practioners' Programme (FPP), Information & Records Management, Learning Resources & Activities, Managing Information to Make Life Easier: A Practical Guide for Administrators, Managing the Information Lifecycle, Open Source Softwarep, 3m (Portfolio, Programme and Project Management), Planning and Designing Technology-Rich Learning Spaces, Portfolio Management, Process Review, \nProgramme Management, Project Management, Records Management, Research Information Management, Risk Management, Scenario Planning, Shared Services, Social Software, Strategic Management Information, Strategy infoKit, Supporting Flexible Delivery, System Implementation, System Selection, Tangible Benefits of e-LearningTechnolog, Enhanced Learning Environments, Time Management, Tools and Techniques

As the web transforms life in the education sector, Netskills helps individuals and organisations to make effective use of innovative technology. \nOur reputation is built upon exceptional quality training and staff development. We also conduct research, develop materials, investigate new technologies and new uses of technology.

The JISC TechDis Service aims to be the leading educational advisory service, working across the UK, in the fields of accessibility and inclusion.\n\nOur mission is to support the education sector in achieving greater accessibility and inclusion by stimulating innovation and providing expert advice and guidance on disability and technology.

Accessibility, tools, advice on e-learning and e-inclusion issues. Excellent practitioner reference site.

VS Sassoon have teamed up with technology experts Conair to develop a unique range of professional hair styling and drying products designed to achieve salon results at home. For VS Sassoon, hair and fashion are inextricably linked, signs of the times, reflecting the prevailing zeitgeist. VS Sassoon maintains its position at the vanguard of fashion continuing to redefine the boundaries of hair creativity with inspiration from every aspect of international art, design and fashion to transform the world of hair.

Are you thinking about using web2tools for research, administration or teaching? If so, make a quick start with the web2practice user guides.\nThe web2practice guides explain how emergent web technologies like RSS, microblogging, podcasting and social media can enhance your working practice. Each guide consists of a short animated video explaining the key concepts (such as microblogging in the example below), supported by a more in-depth guide covering potential uses, risks and how to get started.

"Specialist expertise in communication and assistive technology for children who \nhave speech, communication and/or writing difficulties."

Businessballs is a free ethical learning and development resource for people and organizations, run by Alan Chapman, in Leicester, England.\nBusinessballs.com launched at the end of 1999. The concept began a few years earlier as an experimental online collection of learning and development ideas. The website is now used by about a million people each month. Alan originally created the Businessballs name for juggling balls which he used in his training and development business.

The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative's (ELI's) 7 Things You Should Know About... series provides concise information on emerging learning technologies and related practices. Each brief focuses on a single technology or practice and describes:
What it is
How it works
Where it is going
Why it matters to teaching and learning
*Wonderful set of guides*.

Across the UK there is evidence that the integration of information and communications technology (ICT) into the curriculum can dramatically enhance and enrich the learning and development of both students and teachers.\nMicrosoft is therefore committed to supporting teaching and learning in computer science, engineering and IT in schools and faculties throughout the country. We provide a range of resources to help schools make the most of technology, including lesson plans, templates and ideas for class projects that help teachers integrate ICT with learning.
This section offers useful links and resources to help you make the most of Microsoft technologies and education services.

Our videos may surprise you. They're short and simple. They use paper cut-outs. They cover subjects "in Plain English." But lurking under the simple surface are lessons that have been crafted with great care. Despite our fun and lighthearted style, we take explanation seriously.

"Just click on any of the topics on the left hand side. All the videos deal with ELT/ESL and provide loads of great sites and tips on how to use them"

Web2Rights is a JISC project, funded from 1st November 2007 - 31st March 2009, whose purpose was initially to develop practical, pragmatic and relevant Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and other legal issues toolkits to support the projects funded within the JISC Users and Innovation Programme (U&I) in their engagement with next generation technologies. \nThe Web2Rights team, comprised of lawyers, consultants, learning technologists and pedagogic experts focussed upon the need to address cultural and practical obstacles in engaging with Web2.0, IPR and other legal issues. Working in close collaboration with JISC Legal and focussing upon the specific issues raised by the U&I community of users, they have created a number of resources to address a variety of legal issues which might arise.

"Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world"

Sourcing Content to Teach and Learn \nWith so many great resources already out there on the net, why re-invent the wheel? There are stacks of great activities and information waiting for you to link together into a fun learning experience! \nWhen sourcing your content, be careful to check the copyright statement of the content before you attempt to use it.