The following repository lists resources for pedagogy specific guidance and support on practical learning, fieldwork, and student placements among other key areas. We will keep updating the repository and optimise the user experience for browsing the repository. Staff can also contribute to this repository by contacting Educational Development.
Use the search box below to explore your interest area.
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LinkedIn Learning offers disciplinary content and skills development resources that can support student learning.
Flexible Learning
Supporting online teaching and learning with additional resources
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The Plymouth library offers a range of resources which can support online teaching/learning including Aspire, Endnote and e-textbooks. The library offers also offers development opportunities through access to information specialists and training.
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Supporting online teaching and learning with additional resources
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There are several Open Resource disciplinary repositories to draw on.
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Open Access functions.
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TeachOER offers academics from all disciplines a catalogue to browse purveyors and websites that host openly licensed materials.
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MERLOT is an academic community of content experts who support and curate discipline content, academic teams that support institution-wide academic programs, and institutional partners. Their index is searchable.
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BoB is an on-demand TV and radio service for education. University of Plymouth staff and students can record programmes from over 65 free-to-air channels and search the archive of over 2 million broadcasts.
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UNESCO have developed a repository of collaboration platforms, digital content tools and distance learning solutions.
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Supporting online teaching and learning with additional resources
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Google has teamed up with over 2500 museums and galleries to provide virtual tours.
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Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
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Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is an online directory that increases the discoverability of Open Access books.
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SAGE journals offer a collection of Open Access journals relevant to education, distance learning and COVID research.
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OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum.
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Open ED links to numerous digital resources used in the context of teaching and learning that have been released by the copyright holder under an open licence permitting their use and re-purposing by others.
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Online learning poses new challenges and opportunities for students. The Student Learning team recognise this and have collated helpful guidance and resources to support students learning in blended and online environments.
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Supporting students in Blended Learning
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Getting the Most Out of Online Lectures, Seminars and Tutorials: These guidelines are to support students in attending and participating in synchronous online learning environments.
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Guide to group work: The University of New South Wales provides student facing guidance to support students working effectively on group tasks and assignments.
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This resource provides core principles to designing groups work in any environment.
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Groupwork
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How can learners work in groups and share outputs in real time? A 5-minute video with practice suggestions for group work and student engagement using online group work.
Flexible Learning
Groupwork
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Online open book assessments have recently been used as an alternative to exams, however students have limited experience of this type of assessment. This resource provides students with generic guidance on how to prepare and participate in online open book assessments and should be used in conjunction with local School instruction.
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Ten Strategies for Engaging Discussions Online: Online discussions require careful structure and management to ensure they are engaging and beneficial for students. Stanford University offer these useful tips for enhancing online discussion.
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Engaging students in online activities
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Lecturer presence in discussion forums: This resource offers cognitive, teaching and social communication strategies for fostering support of higher-level thinking and expression ion online discussions.
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Engaging students in online activities
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Improving Student Engagement in Forums: General suggestions for engagement and useful ideas for forum activities.
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Engaging students in online activities
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100 Activities for Motivating and Retaining Online Learners: Suggestions for activities based on principles of safety, encouragement, curiosity, autonomy, relevance, interactivity, engagement and production.
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University of Plymouth Key Principles Teaching and Learning: Flexible educational delivery is core to the University of Plymouth’s mission to provide a quality blended learning experience. Plymouth has created high level command objectives supported by key principles.
