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Joan Vinall-Cox at Pedagogical impact has posted about Academic Writing & Citations: Academic writing has changed radically since I was an undergrad many years ago. When I wrote my Ph.D. thesis a year and a half ago, I made rich use of the capabilities of word-processing. I used Styles for my headings and for generating [...]

While I was looking for something else this evening I came across this article: Boote, D. N., & Beile, P. (2005). Scholars before researchers: On the centrality of the dissertation literature review in research preparation. Educational Researcher, 34(6), 3-15. It’s available online as PDF from the link above. This extract summarises its thrust: A thorough, [...]

This resource, Practitioner Research and Evaluation Skills Training (PREST), has been developed by the Commonwealth of Learning: The PREST materials are designed for use by two target groups – ODL practitioners wanting self-study or reference materials and training providers looking for flexible research training resources to integrate into a variety of training contexts (e.g., face-to-face [...]

NESTA Futurelab – Research – Literature reviews presents 13 reviews relevant to ICT in learning. Topics include mobile technologies, science education, thinking skills and more. It’s worth a look and that’s before digging further into the site which appears to have even more useful material. Let the site blurb speak for itself: These publications offer [...]

The Sofia Open Content Initiative – Elementary Statistics is an online course that may be of interest to those wanting to develop their understanding of statistics and quantitative analysis. (Via CogDogBlog.)

Jim McGee writes at Enterprise Systems about The Invisibility of Knowledge Work: For all the productivity gains that accrue to the digitization of knowledge work, one unintended consequence has been to make the execution of knowledge work essentially invisible, making it harder to manage and improve such work. Attacking that invisibility opens an important path [...]