Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.
This one comes with a health warning; it does have its limitations. For a review of Google Scholar see here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1324783/\n
This dynamic media creation suite enables everyone to easily turn their photos, videos, text and audio clips into interactive stories.
A COLLAGE can be published, embedded, and syndicated into any website, blog or social networking site.
The Further Education Research Association (FERA) aims to help disseminate advances in good practice, research findings and policy evaluation relevant to the Further Education and Training sector.
Our perspective includes both academic and vocational and related provisions on a lifelong learning basis, including professional \ndevelopment.
Issues of concern encompass both support for \nindividual learners and all those involved in the delivery of such provisions.
iTunes U brings the power of the iTunes Store to education, making it simple to distribute information to your students and faculty - or to lifelong learners all over the world. With an iTunes U site, your institution has a single home for all the digital content created or curated by educators, which can then be easily downloaded and viewed on any Mac, PC, iPod, or iPhone.
"The research, commissioned by the Department for Education and Skills, has been undertaken jointly by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority and Oxford University Department for Educational Studies. The study compares selected aspects of Further Education (FE) in England with other comparable FE systems in Finland, Ireland, Sweden and New South Wales, Australia. The method involved a review of the literature and analytical reports for each country followed by expert consultations in each country."
The Learning and Skills Network (formerly Learning and Skills Development Agency) is a national organisation which supports developments in post-16 education and training in England and Wales. Their website contains details of courses, events and training programmes run by the organisation and summaries of all their research and development projects undertaken to date. Information about publications is provided via a searchable database and there are links to free, full-text research reports about teaching and learning in the further education sector, which can be downloaded from the site as PDF files.
The Math Forum is an online community that aims " ... to provide resources, materials, activities, person-to-person interactions, and educational products and services focused on geometry and math education. The community includes, parents, educators, and others who have an interest in math and math education. The Math Forum is funded by the US National Science Foundation. The Forum features access to a range of discussion groups, a newsletter, separate areas for teachers, students, researchers, and parents, and a searchable library of Internet resources in the subject.
CiteULike is a free service to help you to store, organise and share the scholarly papers you are reading. When you see a paper on the web that interests you, you can click one button and have it added to your personal library. CiteULike automatically extracts the citation details, so there's no need to type them in yourself. It all works from within your web browser so there's no need to install any software. Because your library is stored on the server, you can access it from any computer with an Internet connection.
The Research Development and Statistics (RDS) website, includes a range of research and statistics relating to crime, policing, immigration, drugs, and other areas of Home Office responsibility. (Adobe Acrobat required).
Scitable brings together a library of scientific overviews with a worldwide community of scientists, researchers, teachers and students. It allows you to learn about a range of scientific subjects, collaborate online with other students and teachers, publish activities and portfolios to the worldwide science community and allows teaching staff to maintain an evidence-based online course pack for students.
Social Care Online is the UK's most extensive free database of social care information. With everything from research briefings, to reports, government documents, journal articles, events and websites.
A collection of peer-reviewed open access research and journals in the chemical sciences.
A collection of over 180 peer-reviewed, open access medical journals.
The ICT dictionary is aimed at deaf students, their Communication Support Workers and interpreters, and anyone else interested in learning signs for ICT terms.
Create a page of buttons for someone you know that makes it super easy for them to use the internet.
AllPsych Online is one of the largest and most comprehensive psychology websites on the Internet. Inside the site you'll find over over 920 individual, cross referenced, web pages and an estimated 3000 pages of printed material.
DiscoverEd is a search prototype developed by Creative Commons to explore metadata enhanced search, specifically for OER.
The Research Ethics Guidebook is designed as a resource for social science researchers - those early in their careers, as well as more experienced colleagues. It aims to help you find your way through the variety of regulatory processes and procedures that can apply to social science research - signposting you to more detailed information along the way, and acting as a prompt for reflection and questioning at all stages of the research process.
Socialsciencespace brings social scientists together to explore, share and shape the big issues in social science, from funding to impact. This online social network features blogs with the most current thinking from key players in social science, a forum for discussions, a resource centre with free videos, reports and slides that support these discussions, as well as funding and job opportunity notices.
Create your own web based surveys.