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Links revised 3 September 2006
copyright Bill Johnston and Sheila Webber

Learning and teaching Resources

This page lists selected organisations or resources which are useful starting points for those interested in learning and teaching.

For a discussion of issues to do with learning, teaching and assessment strategy for information literacy, you can look at the very detailed report that Moira Massey wrote of our workshop in August 2001, Information literacy and pedagogy. The workshop focused on the situation in UK higher education.

There is a separate page on assessment of student learning


DeLiberations home page with material on learning and teaching, and links to domain-specific material.
http://www.lgu.ac.uk/deliberations/home.html


Atherton, J. S. (2001) How to teach Leicester: De Montfort University.
An concise online text covering a variety of topics (e.g. curriculum design, teaching methods, assessment.)
http://www.dmu.ac.uk/~jamesa/teaching/

Atherton, J. S. (2005) LAngles on Learning Leicester: De Montfort University.
Has concise explanations of various learning theory concepts e.g. constructivism, behaviourism, learning styles.
http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/

Blackmore, P. (2003) The Online Pedagogy Portal. Lancaster: Lancaster University.
http://careers-main.lancs.ac.uk/pb/net-learn.htm

Carey, James O. (1998). Library skills, information skills and information literacy: implications for teaching and learning. School library media quarterly. http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslpubsandjournals/slmrb/slmrcontents/volume11998slmqo/carey.htm

Goodyear, Peter. (Ed) (2001) Effective networked learning in higher education: notes and guidelines. Lancaster: University of Lancaster Centre for Studies in Advanced Learning Technology.
This includes sections of general interest (ie not just to those involved in networked learning) about student learning and working as a teaching team. It was an output from the JCALT project.
http://csalt.lancs.ac.uk/jisc/guidelines_final.doc

Higher Education Academy: The body for UK higher education teaching and learning, which includes the Subject Centres which used to comprise the Learning and Teaching Support Network. http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/
There is free access to a number of useful publications in the Resource Database - linked from http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/resources.asp

Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia
http://www.herdsa.org.au/

The Higher Education Staff Development Agency (formerly Universities' and Colleges' Staff Development Agency (UCoSDA) and now part of another acronym. Website has details of their publications etc.
http://www.hesda.org.uk/

Kearsley, G. (2006) The theory into Practice database. JSU Encyclopedia of Psychology.
This consists of a series of short articles on educational theories and domains.
http://tip.psychology.org/

Learning technology dissemination initiative. Heriot-Watt University.
http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/ltdi/index.html

Levy, Philippa. (2000) "Information specialists supporting learning in the networked environment: a review of trends and issues in higher education." The new review of libraries and lifelong learning 1, 35-64.

The Open University's International Centre for Distance Learning includes "over 12,000 abstracts of books, journal articles, research reports, conference papers, dissertations and other types of literature relating to all aspects of the theory and practice of distance education."
http://www-icdl.open.ac.uk/

Oxford Brookes University: The Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development. Teaching and Learning Online: Some Resources.
Has selected annotated links in categories such as: Computer Aided Assessment; Computer Mediated Communication; design and accessibility.
http://www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsd/4_resource/t&lonlin_index.html

Peacock, J. (2000) Teaching Skills for Teaching Librarians: postcards from the edge of the educational paradigm (MS Word document) paper presented at the COMLA Seminar 2000: User Education for User Empowerment held in Christchurch, New Zealand, 19 – 20 October 2000
http://www.library.qut.edu.au/contacts/staff/COMLA-2000_Final-paper.pdf

The Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA). Web site includes their list of useful publications.
http://www.seda.ac.uk/


Contact Sheila Webber (s.webber@sheffield.ac.uk) with any comments