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a mess, to sort

General

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

Theory and styles

Constructivist

Connectivism

Other

Education systems

Formal education

Informal education

Home schooling

Popular education

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

Academia

  • UNISTATS - Compare official course data from universities and colleges
  • PhDTree - academic genealogy & family tree

Methodology

Assessment

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]

Citation management

Copyright

Copyleft

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.
  • CK-12 provides open-source content and technology tools to help teachers provide learning opportunities for students globally.

Open Access

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

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.
  • 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.

Library

Knowledge transfer

Technology transfer

Open source

Edinburgh

e-Learning

  • HLWIKI International - Our objective is to build a health sciences librarianship wiki with an international perspective.

VLE / LME

Wiki

See also Social#Wiki

OpenCourseWare

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

Coursera

  • 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

  • iversity - bring higher education into the digital age. With our courses, online-teaching becomes interactive, social and accessible around the globe.
  • Future Learn - Enjoy free online courses from leading UK and international universities. OU.

Google Course Builder

edmooc

Edinburgh University MOOCs use Courcera, etc.

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.

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 Data

Articles

other

Networks

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

Tools

to sort

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