All Ireland Society for Higher Education
We provide here a somewhat eclectic selection of onward links relating to Teaching and Learning in Higher Education - as suggested by AISHE members. If you would like to suggest your own favourite sites as additions to this resource, please email to links@aishe.org, including a brief text explaining each link, and they will be considered for inclusion in future revisions.
Where a link has explanatory text below, this is either credited to the person who suggested the reference, or, if no credit is indicated, then the text has been derived verbatim from material at the target site.
Founded in 1995, Stephen's Web is best described as a digital research laboratory for innovation in the use of online media in education. More than just a site about online learning, it is intended to demonstrate new directions in the field for practitioners and enthusiasts.
Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a 50,000-student University. Moodle has a large and diverse user community with over 130,000 registered users on this site alone.
A collection of resources on third-level assessment hosted by the School of Business & Humanities, Institute of Technology, Sligo, Ireland.
DeLiberations is designed to act as a resource for educational developers, librarians, academic staff and managers in education, with material arranged by Discipline and by Educational Issue; and as a forum for readers to discuss and develop ideas, and identify resources that will aid their work.
A large and well organised directory of online resources on education.
These pages are largely about theories of learning in a post-school educational context. They are designed to provide a "quick and dirty" overview and introduction to the field, so anyone who knows anything about the ideas already will certainly find over-simplifications. Wherever possible, however, references are provided for further - more reliable - reading. Moreover, the selection of material is personal and in some cases downright idiosyncratic. But there is a point to providing such an overview, and particularly in a hypertext format, which is to make clear the shape of the field, and to help the teacher to orient her- or himself to how the ideas fit together or provide conflicting models.
Adult education institution with a wide variety of practical distance-learning diploma courses. A personal tutor system helps students learning from home. (Submitted by Flora Simms
Mailbase provides electronic discussion lists for the UK higher education community. We currently have 3,106 discussion lists, and 224,793 members worldwide. (See also the specific list of mailbase education topics.)
An occasional series of scholarly publications in the field of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.
Derived from the weekly Education & Living supplement of The Irish Times. Good content; but the relationship with the print edition is unnecessarily obscure (specifically, the print publication date of the articles is not apparent).
Not the THES "online", but rather a supplement to it. Implemented as a rather complex site with hi-tech bells and whistles (that lo-tech browsers may have trouble with!) and disappointingly little hard content.
Similar concept to the THES service, but significantly better implementation. Clean design, with no nasty frames or javascript; and worthwhile content even for non-subscribers (subscribers to the print edition can register for additional online services). Of course, it is somewhat US-centric...
The purpose of The Technology Source, a peer-reviewed bimonthly periodical, is to provide thoughtful, illuminating articles that will assist educators as they face the challenge of integrating information technology tools into teaching and into managing educational organizations.
AJET is a refereed journal publishing research and review articles in educational technology, instructional design, educational applications of computer technologies, educational telecommunications and related areas.
AAHE's monthly newsletter, offering interviews, special reports, and practical how-to articles.
... one of the first peer-reviewed journals on the Internet, about the Internet. First Monday expands the frontiers of academic publishing by combining the traditional values of peer review with publication on the World Wide Web. First Monday publishes original articles about the Internet and the Global Information Infrastructure.
T.H.E. (Technological Horizons in Education) is a privately held publishing and services company based in Tustin, Calif. T.H.E. Journal welcomes submissions of articles from educators involved in integrating technology on their campuses and into their curricula.
The RRE News Service is essentially a mailing list with contributions organized/selected/moderated by Phil Agre. Topics usually concern the social and political -- including educational -- aspects of computing and networking. Try searching on "higher education". [BMcM]
The British Education Index (BEI) is an authoritative index to the contents of 300 education and training journals published in the British Isles, together with certain internationally published periodicals, and is expanding to cover national report and conference literature in the field. The BEI is produced by a self-financing unit in Leeds University Library.
2-3rd September 2004, TCD: "The overall aim of the conference then is to present in a succinct fashion a snapshot of higher education in Ireland, North and South, as it enters a new and critical phase of national and international development."
10 September 2004, DCU: "Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a software package designed to help educators create quality online courses. One of the main advantages of Moodle over other systems is a strong grounding in social constructionist pedagogy. Moodle is Open Source software, which means you are free to download it, use it, modify it and even distribute it (under the terms of the GNU General Public License)."
23-24 September 2004, DCU: "This conference aims to bring together some of the key thinkers and practitioners in this area from around the world, and to develop outline proposals for bringing the fruits of science education research into effect in our classrooms. A panel of national and international experts in the field of science education will discuss and compare best practice worldwide and apply this to the specific constraints and opportunities offered by the Irish educational system."
October 1-3 2004, Ontario, Canada: "The Centre for Leadership in Learning at McMaster University is sponsoring a symposium on inquiry learning, which will take place at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington (quite close to McMaster) on the weekend of October 1-3, 2004. The purpose of the event is to exchange experiences with the inquiry method in higher education, to document evidence about the outcomes of inquiry learning, to discuss strategies for using inquiry most effectively, and to explore future directions."
11 November 2004, University College Dublin: "Keynote Speakers - Prof. Diane Halpern, Prof. Noel Entwistle, Dr. Patricia Senn Breivik, Prof. Aidan Moran."
A service of British Education Index, this is a well maintained index of conferences relating to education.
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