Learning

a mess, to sort

General

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education

• infed.org - Hundreds of pages and millions of users across the world exploring education, learning and social change.

• Sir Ken Robinson - Changing Paradigms - RSA, 2010
• How to Change Education - from the ground up - RSA, 2013

Theory and styles

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_theory_(education)
  • https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Learning_Theories
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_styles

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedagogy
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_pedagogy

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Networked_learning

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

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectivism - 2005
• http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca/index.php/Connectivism

• http://halfanhour.blogspot.co.uk/2007/02/what-connectivism-is.html

Other

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonformal_learning

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem-based_learning
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service-learning - combines classroom instruction with meaningful community service

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocational_education

• 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/Peer_learning
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_by_teaching
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monitorial_System
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragged_school
• Peer Assisted Learning at Goldsmiths

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_education
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andragogy - teaching strategies developed for adult learners

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactional_expertise
  • http://inthespaceofreasons.blogspot.com/2009/11/collins-studies-of-expertise-and.html

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_education
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudbury_school

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_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

Education systems

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_education

• http://neil.fraser.name/news/2013/03/16/

• Education Scotland .gov.uk
• Engage for Education
• Glow
• Role of ICT in learning

• The Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework

• Inside Higher Ed is the online source for news, opinion and jobs for all of higher education.
• Education UK

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/Educational_research

• 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.

Informal education

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informal_learning

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodidacticism
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heutagogy - the study of self-determined learning

Home schooling

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeschooling

• https://www.gov.uk/home-education
• http://www.home-education.org.uk/
• http://www.educationotherwise.net/

• http://www.ebhe.org.uk/
• http://www.hometuitionscotland.co.uk/
• http://www.schoolhouse.org.uk/

Popular education

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_education

• http://www.infed.org/biblio/b-poped.htm

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcome-based_education

Edinburgh

• http://populardigitaleducation.wordpress.com/

• Lectures on popular education; delivered to the Edinburgh association for procuring instruction to useful and entertaining science (1834)

• 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

• http://www.cldstandardscouncil.org.uk/
• http://www.cldms.org.uk/

Academia

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academia
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_disciplines_and_sub-disciplines

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_development

• Universities Scotland

• UNISTATS - Compare official course data from universities and colleges

• Why Academic Papers Are A Terrible Discussion Forum

• The Fall of Academics at Harvard

• BBC News: UK universities 'face online threat'

• The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.
• So you want to do a PhD?

• PhDTree - academic genealogy & family tree

• PHD Comics

Methodology

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedagogy
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pedagogy

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didactic_method

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assemblage_(composition)

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blended_learning
  • http://www.teachthought.com/learning/11-steps-of-effective-project-based-learning-in-a-blended-classroom/

Assessment

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_assessment

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_set

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5364451

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licence#Academia

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. [1]

• http://www.plos.org/
• http://www.plosone.org/

• http://vixra.org/

• http://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/1gov71/mathematical_writing_synonyms_for_therefore/

• http://freecite.library.brown.edu/welcome/api_instructions

• http://xuguang.info/blog/2013/05/citation-network-visualize/

• http://www.altmetric.com/
  • http://api.altmetric.com/

• http://webofknowledge.com

• https://selectedpapers.net/

• http://www.universalrejection.org/

• http://scicurve.com/

• http://scienceseeker.org/
• http://www.2cultures.net/
• http://econjwatch.org/
• http://jotwell.com/
• http://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/

Citation management

• http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca/index.php/EndNote_Web
• http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca/index.php/Mendeley
• http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca/index.php/RefWorks

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.euppublishing.com/page/infoZone/authors/Copyright

• http://www.ed.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.25069!/fileManager/amendment_to_publication_agreement3.pdf

• http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/ - silo ahoy!

• http://wiki.publishing.umich.edu/Publishing_Agreements

• http://www.library.arizona.edu/help/tutorials/copyright

• 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

some rights reserved

• http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Creative_Commons_and_Open_Access

• http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34852

• http://library.osu.edu/blogs/copyright/

• http://www.jisc.ac.uk/inform/inform31/Jol-Ito-Education.html

• http://www.open.ac.uk/about/main/admin-and-governance/policies-and-statements/copyright-the-openlearn-website

• http://www.open.edu/openlearn/
• http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/open
• http://unow.nottingham.ac.uk/

• http://creativecommons.org/science

• http://freeourbooks.wordpress.com/

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources

• 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.

• http://hlsweb.dmu.ac.uk/ahs/elearning/RITA/Resources.html

• 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

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Open_access_archives

• http://open-access.org.uk/

• http://openaccess.eprints.org/

• http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/open-access

• http://sciencecitizen.org/?p=219

• http://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/collection-development-oc

• http://oaindex.org/

• http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/publications/programme/2011/scaembeddingcclicencesbp.pdf

• http://www.doaj.org/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-access_journals

• http://www.plosone.org/home.action

• http://www.oclc.org/oaister.en.html?urlm=168646

• http://www.ssrn.com/

• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed

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

• http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/
• http://www.jiscadvance.ac.uk/
• https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk

• http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/di_informationandlibraries/emergingopportunities/benefitsofsharingscotland.aspx

• http://www.jisc.ac.uk/inform/inform33/OpenWorking.html

• http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/

• http://www.edmediashare.org/

Knowledge sharing

• http://titojankowski.com/get-journal-articles-free/

• 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

• http://www.dcc.ac.uk/ - dead?

• AHRC is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, along with the other UK Research Councils.

• http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/about/organisation/edl

• 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.youtube.com/watch?v=bdQwEAVTI20

• http://www.reddit.com/r/scholar

• http://www.worldcat.org/

• http://specific.eu.com/

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

Knowledge transfer

• http://www.research-innovation.ed.ac.uk/

• http://www.ktponline.org.uk/

Technology transfer

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_transfer

• http://www.ettc.co.uk/

Open source

• http://www.jasig.org/

Edinburgh

• Edinburgh Grid for Learning

• Community Learning and Development Adult Education Programme Day, evening and weekend courses.

• http://www.ed.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.98726!/fileManager/ISTeamsv15_Feb13.pdf

e-Learning

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_learning_community

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-learning

• 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!

• 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.
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P2PU

• 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.
  • https://github.com/ureddit/ureddit

• 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.
  • http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/ - old site
  • http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/topic/oer

• 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.
• https://sites.google.com/site/technologyenhancedlearning/resources

• Wikis, blogs and podcasts: a new generation of Web-based tools for virtual collaborative clinical practice and education - 2006

• Go Ahead, Mess With Texas Instruments - Why educational technologies should be more like graphing calculators and less like iPads. An Object Lesson.

VLE / LME

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_learning_environment
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_management_system

• Ofsted: Virtual Learning Environments: e-portfolio

• 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.

• http://www.courseweaver.org/

• 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.

Wiki

See also Social#Wiki

• https://www.wiki.ed.ac.uk

• http://www.academia.edu/Documents/in/Wikis
• http://www.academia.edu/Documents/in/Wiki

• http://www.jdentaled.org/content/76/4/427.full

• 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

• https://wiki.rit.edu/display/0508484012121/Home

OpenCourseWare

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCourseWare - free lecture videos/notes, remote learning

• http://www.ocwconsortium.org/
• http://ocw.mit.edu/
• http://www.open.edu/openlearn/

• http://wikieducator.org/Main_Page

• U-Now Open Courseware - University of Nottingham

MOOCs

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course - something more than OCW - focus on alternative broadcast media and elements of collaboration

• http://www.educause.edu/library/massive-open-online-course-mooc

• http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca/index.php/Massive_open_online_courses_(MOOCs)

• What You Need to Know About MOOCs

• What is a MOOC? What are the different types of MOOC? xMOOCs and cMOOCs
• A primer on MOOCs.
• Making Sense of MOOCs: Musings in a Maze of Myth, Paradox and Possibility
• http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/MOOCs_Deciphered

• http://etmooc.org/hub/tag/etherpad/

• http://howtomooc.org/wiki/index.php/Hauptseite

• MOOC Completion Rates: The Data [2]

• http://onlinelearninginsights.wordpress.com/tag/group-work-online/

• MOOC Mess - on using cloud services..

• Should All Massive Open Online Courses Follow Harvard Law School’s Move By Limiting Class Size? - depends. ideally, systems and process should scale.

• http://moocsandlibraries.blogspot.co.uk/

• Before MOOCs, ‘Colleges of the Air’

• An Open Letter to Professor Michael Sandel From the Philosophy Department at San Jose State U

• HN: What according to you is the biggest problem with MOOCs?

• 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.

edX

• http://mooc.org/

• 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

Coursera

• https://www.coursera.org/
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PojLL3E-zk0

• https://www.coursera.org/about/terms

• http://guides.library.upenn.edu/content.php?pid=244413&sid=3375306

• https://share.coursera.org/
  • https://share.coursera.org/wiki/index.php/Third-party_Tools
  • https://share.coursera.org/wiki/index.php/AIPLAN:Planners - edinburgh AI

• 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??

other

• http://online.stanford.edu/
  • https://github.com/Stanford-Online/class2go/

• iversity - bring higher education into the digital age. With our courses, online-teaching becomes interactive, social and accessible around the globe.

• http://talisaspire.com/
  • http://community.talisaspire.com/

• Future Learn - Enjoy free online courses from leading UK and international universities. OU.

Google Course Builder

• https://code.google.com/p/course-builder/ - merging with edX

edmooc

Edinburgh University MOOCs use Courcera, etc.

• http://fm.schmoller.net/2012/07/edinburgh-university-bites-on-the-mooc-bullet-with-coursera.html

• http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate/online-distance-learning/programmes/mooc-edinburgh

• http://edcmoocteam.wordpress.com/
• http://www.waynebarry.com/blog/?p=450
• http://www.waynebarry.com/blog/?p=524
• http://mymoocadventure.wordpress.com/
• http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK3eijjTYSzde5QsnFIvU6Q
• http://padlet.com/wall/edcmooc_artefact
• https://twitter.com/search?q=%23edcmooc
• https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Audn0mjvDd8mdEZLbVAxRGI5dVZTYUNKLS01bVhuOFE#gid=0
• http://onlinelearninginsights.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/a-tale-of-two-moocs-coursera-divided-by-pedagogy/
• http://stevendkrause.com/2013/03/06/e-learning-and-digital-cultures-ends-with-a-meh-edcmooc
• https://edcmooc.wikispaces.com - not really the best use of a wiki
• http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/sheilamacneill/2013/03/19/preparing-for-the-second-wave/

outcomes other than individual learning? collaborative artefacts (documentation / process?)

major issues regarding copyright and the work university staff put in as part of work duties.

• https://github.com/dgorissen/coursera-dl [3]

Futurelearn

• Futurelearn will bring together a range of free, open, online courses from leading universities, in the same place and under the same brand.

other

• 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.

• Open Learning Design Studio's MOOC - JISC MOOC, early 2013

Open Data

• http://learnerjourneydatajam.com/The-Data
• http://dataportal.unistats.ac.uk/

Articles

• http://buildingcreativebridges.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/synchronous-sessions-asynchronously-blending-meetings-learning-and-digital-literacy/

• http://buildingcreativebridges.wordpress.com/2013/02/14/the-spread-of-learning-rhizomes/
  • http://davecormier.com/edblog/2011/11/18/explaining-rhizomatic-learning-to-my-five-year-old/
  • clear english, r/explainlikeimfive/, feynman

• http://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2012/12/28/why-online-courseware-cant-replace-a-4-year-degree/

other

• https://p2pu.org/
• https://p2pu.org/en/schools/school-of-open/

• http://peeragogy.org/

• http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.217.4860

Networks

• figshare is a repository where users can make all of their research outputs available in a citable, shareable and discoverable manner.

Tools

• http://quizlet.com/
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quizlet - memorization aid

to sort

• 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.

• Mathematical Methodology, Spring 1997 - Dijkstra
• Teaching linear algebra

• http://www.janeelliott.com/
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Elliott
  • Brown eyes and blue eyes Racism experiment (Children Session) - Jane Elliott - 1970
  • The Angry Eye - Brown Eye-Blue Eye Experiment - part 1

• VideoLectures.NET is an award-winning free and open access educational video lectures repository.