Learning
a big mess, to sort
General
- infed.org - Hundreds of pages and millions of users across the world exploring education, learning and social change.
Blogs
Theory and practice
to sort
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_psychology
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Educational_psychology
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didactic_method - theory of teaching + practical application of teaching and learning. sometimes rote.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathetics
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_education
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_education
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiential_education
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiential_learning
- Sir Ken Robinson - Changing Paradigms - RSA, 2010
- How to Change Education - from the ground up - RSA, 2013
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_education
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holistic_education
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanism_(philosophy_of_education)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanistic_education
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student-centred_learning
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_voice
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_engagement
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_learning
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflective_practice
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teachable_moment
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_learning
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_learning
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem-based_learning
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocational_education
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_education_system
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practicum
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communities_of_practice
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situated_learning - learning that takes place in the same context in which it is applied
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service-learning - combines classroom instruction with meaningful community service
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_by_teaching
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_learning
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monitorial_System - Bell-Lancaster method
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragged_school
- Peer Assisted Learning at Goldsmiths
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jigsaw_(teaching_technique)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_education
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andragogy - teaching strategies developed for adult learners
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_pedagogy
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-regulated_learning
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifelong_learning
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-wide_Learning
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemplative_education - spiritual edge
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizational_learning - area of knowledge within organizational theory that studies models and theories about the way an organization learns and adapts
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_organization - a company that facilitates the learning of its members and continuously transforms itself. 1997
Popular education
Constructivist
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism_(philosophy_of_education)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivist_teaching_methods
- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Learning_Theories/Constructivist_Theories
- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Constructivism_%26_Technology
- http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca/index.php/Constructivism
- http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Constructivism
- http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Socio-constructivism
Connectivism
Rhizomatic
Education systems
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_education
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-schooling_activism
Formal education
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curriculum
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curriculum_studies
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curriculum_theory
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllabus
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflective_practice
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_learning_environment
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preschool_education
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_education
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_education
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tertiary_education
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_education
- computerbasedmath.org is a project to build a completely new math curriculum with computer-based computation at its heart—alongside a campaign to refocus math education away from historical hand-calculating techniques and toward relevant and conceptually interesting topics.
- CS in VN
- http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/12/how-deprogramming-kids-from-how-to-do-school-could-improve-learning/ [1]
- http://venturebeat.com/2014/06/13/this-french-tech-school-has-no-teachers-no-books-no-tuition-and-it-could-change-everything [3]
- YouTube: Don't Stay in School - Boyinaband
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIBmV-X0t9Y
UK & Scotland
- Gov.uk: National curriculum
- Inside Higher Ed is the online source for news, opinion and jobs for all of higher education.
- Education UK
Informal education
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodidacticism
- http://www.buccaneerscholar.com/
- http://www.reddit.com/r/autodidact/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heutagogy - the study of self-determined learning
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unschooling
- http://unschoolery.com/
- http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/nature/Unschooling-The-Case-for-Setting-Your-Kids-Into-the-Wild.html [4]
Home schooling
- https://www.gov.uk/home-education
- http://www.home-education.org.uk/
- http://www.educationotherwise.net/
Edinburgh
- Creative Interdisciplinary Research in Collaborative Environments - CIRCLE's members are researchers and creative practitioners at the University of Edinburgh and elsewhere. They work across the creative arts, architecture, the humanities, the physical and social sciences. Their research focuses on developing creative collaborative environments, employing methods across disciplines. Their aim is to develop effective and affecting interactive environments, within a critical framework, seeking the insights that interdisciplinary inquiry might allow.
Community Learning and Development
- http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Education/Life-Long-Learning/cld
- http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/communitylearninganddevelopment
Academic
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academia
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_disciplines_and_sub-disciplines
- UNISTATS - Compare official course data from universities and colleges
- BBC News: UK universities 'face online threat'
- PhDTree - academic genealogy & family tree
Assessment
- http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/are-courses-outdated-mit-considers-offering-modules-instead [7]
Papers
- arXiv is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics, owned and operated by Cornell University.
- bookworm ArXiv - Search for trends in hundreds of thousands of articles on arxiv.org
- Paperscape - A map of 884,000 scientific papers from the arXiv. [8] [9]
- Public Library of Science (PLOS) is a nonprofit publisher, membership, and advocacy organization with a mission to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication.
- PLOS ONE is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication. PLOS ONE welcomes reports on primary research from any scientific discipline.
- ViXra.org is an e-print archive set up as an alternative to the popular arXiv.org service owned by Cornell University. It has been founded by scientists who find they are unable to submit their articles to arXiv.org because of Cornell University's policy of endorsements and moderation designed to filter out e-prints that they consider inappropriate.
- FreeCite is an open-source application that parses document citations into fielded data. You can use it as a web application or a service. You can also download the source and run FreeCite on your own server. FreeCite is distributed under the MIT license.
- Altmetric - a London-based start-up focused on making article level metrics easy. Our mission is to track and analyse the online activity around scholarly literature.
- Web of Knowledge (Thomson Reuters) is today's premier research platform for information in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
- SelectedPapers.net is a free, open-source project aimed at improving the way people find, read, and share academic papers.
- SciCurve transforms the old indexed-search based method of systematic literature review into interactive and comprehensible environment.
- ScienceSeeker is a central site for finding and following science news and discussion. We collect thousands of posts and articles from hundreds of science sources; we aim to be the most comprehensive science hub on the web.
- 2cultures.net syndicates in real-time 100 English language Digital Humanities blogs and related sites from around the world.
- Digital Humanities Now showcases the scholarship and news of interest to the digital humanities community through a process of aggregation, discovery, curation, and review.
- Econ Journal Watch publishes Comments on articles appearing in economics journals and serves as a forum about economics research and the economics profession.
- Journal of Things We Like (Lots) - JOTWELL - invites you to join us in filling a telling gap in legal scholarship by creating a space where legal academics can go to identify, celebrate, and discuss the best new legal scholarship.
- http://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/ - french
- Open Science Framework (OSF) supports the entire research lifecycle: planning, execution, reporting, archiving, and discovery.
Citation management
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_management_software
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_management_software
Copyright
- http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/services/library-museum-gallery/library-help/copyright
- http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/services/research-support/publish-research/research-publications/copyright
- http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/ - silo ahoy!
- Association of Research Libraries: Massive Open Online Courses: Legal and Policy Issues for Research Libraries
- http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/about/news/copyright-seminar - didn't touch on existing copyleft accomodating employee contract implementations
Copyleft
See also Free/open
Some rights reserved.
- Jorum is the place where you will find free open educational resources produced by the UK Further and Higher Education community.
- Great Writers Inspire - This collection of freely available literary resources is aimed at students from sixth-form to university, their teachers, and at lifelong learners. It contains lectures, eBooks and contextual essays for reuse by individuals and the educational community.
- https://openeducationalresources.pbworks.com/w/page/24836480/Home
- https://oersynth.pbworks.com/w/page/29595671/OER%20Synthesis%20and%20Evaluation%20Project
- CK-12 provides open-source content and technology tools to help teachers provide learning opportunities for students globally.
Open Access
- UK Open Access Implementation Group adds value to the work of the member organisations to increase the rate at which the outputs from UK research are available on OA terms.
- Open Access Archivangelism by Stevan Harnad
- Open Access by Peter Suber
- Open Access Index - a method to measure an author's engagement with Open Access. Is there a need, and how should the index be calculated?
- DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals
- OCLC is a worldwide library cooperative, providing services and research to improve access to the world’s information.
- OAIster is a union catalog of millions of records representing open access resources that was built by harvesting from open access collections worldwide using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Today, OAIster includes more than 30 million records representing digital resources from more than 1,500 contributors.
- Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences.
- PubMed comprises more than 23 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
Jisc
- Jisc - drives innovation in UK education and research, and have been doing so for more than 15 years. registered charity working on behalf of UK higher education, further education and skills to champion the use of digital technologies. Historically, JISC stood for Joint Information Systems Committee
- JISC Digital Media helps the UK’s higher education, further education and skills communities embrace and maximise the use of digital media (still images, sound and video).
- JIsc Advance brought together collective expertise to help organisations get the most from technology. Its services (such as the Regional Support Centres, Jisc Legal and Jisc TechDis) continue to run, but the organisation itself closed in July 2013.
- JISCMail has a large collection of groups which enable academics, support staff and researchers to collaborate
- Open doors - We asked JISC colleagues: what aspect of your work has made the biggest difference to supporting people in universities, colleges and other learning providers to work more openly?
- OSS Watch provides unbiased advice and guidance on the use, development, and licensing of free software, open source software, and open source hardware.
Knowledge sharing
- RoMEO is part of SHERPA Services based at the University of Nottingham. RoMEO has collaborative relationships with many international partners, who contribute time and effort to developing and maintaining the service. Current RoMEO development is funded by JISC.
- Humanities & Social Science: Research & Knowledge Exchange - UoE
- http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/research/overview/offices,_support_and_resources
- AHRC is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, along with the other UK Research Councils.
- CiteSeerx is an evolving scientific literature digital library and search engine that has focused primarily on the literature in computer and information science. CiteSeerx aims to improve the dissemination of scientific literature and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness in the access of scientific and scholarly knowledge. Rather than creating just another digital library, CiteSeerx attempts to provide resources such as algorithms, data, metadata, services, techniques, and software that can be used to promote other digital libraries. CiteSeerx has developed new methods and algorithms to index PostScript and PDF research articles on the Web. Citeseerx provides the following features.
- http://www.dcc.ac.uk/ - dead?
Library
- http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca/index.php/Research_Portal_for_Academic_Librarians
- http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca/index.php/The_use_of_social_media_in_academic_libraries_2013
- WorldCat is the world's largest library catalog, helping you find library materials online.
- EDINA provides online services and resources for UK Higher and Further Education. The Data Library assists staff and students in the discovery, access, use and management of datasets for research and teaching. Together they are a division of Information Services.
Knowledge transfer
- Edinburgh Research and Innovation Ltd - A UK leader in commercialising research and entrepreneurship.
- Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) supports UK businesses wanting to improve their competitiveness, productivity and performance by accessing the knowledge and expertise available within UK Universities and Colleges.
Technology transfer
- Edinburgh Technology Transfer Centre provides specialist laboratories and high-spec office accommodation to spin-out and start-up companies and project teams involved in research and development programmes.
- SPECIFIC, an academic and industrial consortium led by Swansea University with Tata Steel as the main industrial partner, is funded by EPSRC, Technology Strategy Board and the Welsh Government.
Open source
Edinburgh
- Community Learning and Development Adult Education Programme Day, evening and weekend courses.
Humour
Educational technology
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_technology - Educational technology is the effective use of technological tools in learning. As a concept, it concerns an array of tools, such as media, machines and networking hardware, as well as considering underlying theoretical perspectives for their effective application.
Educational technology is not restricted to high technology. Nonetheless, electronic educational technology, also called e-learning, has become an important part of society today, comprising an extensive array of digitization approaches, components and delivery methods. For example, m-learning emphasizes mobility, but is otherwise indistinguishable in principle from educational technology.
Educational technology includes numerous types of media that deliver text, audio, images, animation, and streaming video, and includes technology applications and processes such as audio or video tape, satellite TV, CD-ROM, and computer-based learning, as well as local intranet/extranet and web-based learning. Information and communication systems, whether free-standing or based on either local networks or the Internet in networked learning, underlie many e-learning processes.
Theoretical perspectives and scientific testing influence instructional design. The application of theories of human behavior to educational technology derives input from instructional theory, learning theory, educational psychology, media psychology and human performance technology. Educational technology and e-learning can occur in or out of the classroom. It can be self-paced, asynchronous learning or may be instructor-led, synchronous learning. It is suited to distance learning and in conjunction with face-to-face teaching, which is termed blended learning. Educational technology is used by learners and educators in homes, schools (both K-12 and higher education), businesses, and other settings.
Resources
- WikiEducator is an evolving community intended for the collaborative planning of education projects linked with the development of free content, development of free content on Wikieducator for e-learning, work on building open education resources OERs, on how to create OERs, networking on funding proposals developed as free content
- EduTechWiki is about Educational Technology (instructional technology) and related fields. It is hosted by TECFA - an educational technology research and teaching unit at University of Geneva.
- HLWIKI International - Our objective is to build a health sciences librarianship wiki with an international perspective.
- Peeragogy is a collection of techniques for collaborative learning and collaborative work. By learning how to “work smart” together, we hope to leave the world in a better state than it was when we arrived.
- e-Learning Tags is a social bookmarking site where eLearning Professionals discover, share, vote and discuss interesting and remarkable content related to the e-learning field!
- Metacademy is a community-driven, open-source platform for experts to collaboratively construct a web of knowledge. Right now, Metacademy focuses on machine learning and probabilistic AI, because that's what the current contributors are experts in. But eventually, Metacademy will cover a much wider breadth of knowledge, e.g. mathematics, engineering, music, medicine, computer science… [12]
Articles
- Go Ahead, Mess With Texas Instruments - Why educational technologies should be more like graphing calculators and less like iPads. An Object Lesson.
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/09/25/why-a-leading-professor-of-new-media-just-banned-technology-use-in-class/ [13]
VLE / LME
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_learning_environment
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_management_system
- Moodle is a Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It is a Free web application that educators can use to create effective online learning sites.
- LON-CAPA is a full-featured open source course management, learning content management, and assessment system
- Claroline is an open source platform for collaborative e-learning and working online. Available in a wide number of different languages, Claroline can be downloaded for free and freely installed.
- https://code.google.com/p/course-builder/ - Google's MOOC system
- Fedena is a free & opensource school management software that has more features than a student information system. Use fedena to efficiently manage students, teachers, employees, courses & all the system & process related to your institution.
- GLEU Studio is a one-stop shop for technology-enhanced learning at Goldsmiths, and represents a major rationalisation and simplification, transforming how the unit interacts with learning and teaching across the University.
- Q.uiz.Me - The educational quiz game designed to strengthen and test knowledge within subjects including Maths, Spellings, Science and History [14]
Wiki
See also Social#Wiki
- http://metadatabase.org/wiki/Main_Page
- http://www.academia.edu/1138597/MetaBase-the_wiki-database_of_biological_databases
- http://www.rit.edu/studentaffairs/ritpedia/wiki/Main_Page
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUEDN5OkGUQ
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sau6l9TOhgk
- http://gitorious.org/jlew/mediawiki_visualization
Documents
- nb - annotate course material online, either for yourself, or to discuss it with the class. voting for comments and questions. annotation of pdf, html, and chronological annotation of video.
OpenCourseWare
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCourseWare - free lecture videos/notes, remote learning
- U-Now Open Courseware - University of Nottingham
Video
- VideoLectures.NET is an award-winning free and open access educational video lectures repository.
MOOC
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course - something more than OCW - focus on alternative broadcast media and elements of collaboration
- A primer on MOOCs.
- What You Need to Know About MOOCs
- What is a MOOC? What are the different types of MOOC? xMOOCs and cMOOCs
- Making Sense of MOOCs: Musings in a Maze of Myth, Paradox and Possibility
- http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/MOOCs_Deciphered
- http://jolt.merlot.org/vol9no2/stewart_bonnie_0613.htm
- Open Learning Design Studio's MOOC - JISC MOOC, early 2013
Articles
- MOOCs and Libraries - MOOCs and Libraries is devoted to documenting librarian and library involvement in Massive Open Online Courses
- HN: What according to you is the biggest problem with MOOCs?
- Should All Massive Open Online Courses Follow Harvard Law School’s Move By Limiting Class Size? - depends. ideally, systems and process should scale.
- Before MOOCs, ‘Colleges of the Air’
- An Open Letter to Professor Michael Sandel From the Philosophy Department at San Jose State U
- MOOC Mess - on using cloud services..
Software
edX
- https://edx.org
- https://github.com/edx - some open source
- http://www.informationweek.co.uk/education/online-learning/edx-mooc-software-goes-open-source/240150815
- http://googleresearch.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/we-are-joining-open-edx-platform.html
Google Course Builder
- https://code.google.com/p/course-builder/ - merging with edX
other
Courses
- Futurelearn will bring together a range of free, open, online courses from leading universities, in the same place and under the same brand. OU.
- Class Central is a free online course aka MOOC aggregator from top universities like Stanford, MIT, Harvard, etc. offered via Coursera, Udacity, edX, NovoED, & others.
- CourseTalk - MOOC reviews & ratings for Coursera, edX, Udacity and more.
- Mooctivity is a comprehensive catalog of MOOCs/online courses from Coursera, edX, FutureLearn and others with a social platform for online students.
- TopFreeClasses.com will help you find and compare MOOC courses from Coursera, Udacity, edX, Stanford, MIT, and many others.
- CourseBuffet is a course catalog for online learning. [17]
- iversity - bring higher education into the digital age. With our courses, online-teaching becomes interactive, social and accessible around the globe.
- Rheingold U. is a totally online learning community, offering courses that usually run for five weeks, with five live sessions and ongoing asynchronous discussions through forums, blogs, wikis, mindmaps, and social bookmarks.
- P2PU - A University for the Web. Built by an open community.
- University of Reddit is the product of free intellectualism and is a haven for the sharing of knowledge. Teachers and students are free to explore any subject that interests them.
- Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles of education from pre-school to university, including professional training and informal learning.
- Cetis is the Centre for Educational Technology, Interoperability and Standards. University of Bolton.
Coursera
- https://class.coursera.org/progfun-002 - started this
- html5 varilable speed video++
- subtitles++
- video stream times out if paused, does not resume--
- no time code link--
- no links on videos, no hypermedia/popcorn.js like--
- copyright status??
Networks
- figshare is a repository where users can make all of their research outputs available in a citable, shareable and discoverable manner.
SPOC
Tools
- http://quizlet.com/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quizlet - memorization aid
To sort
- OU Learning Design Initiative (OULDI) started with institutional strategic funding in 2007 and has been funded by JISC under the Curriculum Design programme since September 2008.
- Educase is a nonprofit association and the foremost community of IT leaders and professionals committed to advancing higher education.
- http://kimburgess.info/thoughts/teach-kids-to-farm-not-code - why not both?
- Design Informatics focuses on designing with data. We can harness massive connectivity, analytic power and industrial-strength simulation to design tangible products and intangible services to transform the ways we work, live at home, care for each other, and play. Edinburgh Uni.