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ICORE promotes, supports and enhances Open Research and Open Education worldwide. The main objectives of ICORE are the recognition, progress and application of Open Research and Open Education: ICORE wants to bridge both worlds of Open Research and Open Education. The goal is the mutual re-usage of their results and outcomes, e.g. through the usage of digital resources from Open Research in Open Education.

SURF unites Dutch research universities, universities of applied sciences and research institutions as an initiator of innovation in higher education and research. It is an umbrella for four organisations: 1.SURFnet 2.SURFmarket 3.SURFsara 4.SURFshare These are concerned with the provision of ICT infrastructure and support for ICT based innovation in higher education and research.

A guide on 20 selected Web 2.0 tools for research purposes

Practical guide to Open Educational Resources (OERs) for research students from the UK Open University

Portal maintained by the EU Central Library to promote and support open access to research. It includes many links to open access repositories and search engines and has RSS feeds from journals in various topic areas including economics and education (via separate link)

Short guide to "Using Twitter in university research, teaching and impact activities" By Amy Mollett, Danielle Moran, and Patrick Dunleavy, (2011), LSE Public Policy Group, London School of Economics and Political Science., London, UK.

Thanks for passing this on, John. A really nice guide from LSE.

"The Assessment and Teaching of 21st-Century Skills (ATC21S) is a research project that proposes ways of assessing 21st-century skills and encourages teaching and adopting those skills in the classroom."

Here is an operational manual which guides creators step by step in the world of Creative Commons licenses, the most famous and popular licenses for free distribution of intellectual products. The author: Simone Aliprandi is an Italian lawyer and researcher who is constantly engaged in writing and consulting in the field of copyright and ICT law.

A platform for sharing scientific and scholarly research related to agriculture, food, and environment. (Project webpage at http://voa3r.eu)

UK legal guidance for ICT use in education research and external engagement

Website of the Information Society Unit of the EC Joint Research Centre, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies project on use of Web 2.0 technologies in training and education - includes reports and case studies.

E-book from  EDUCAUSE.edu on how information technology is changing thinking and practice in higher education. Focused mainly on North America, but relevant globally

A Diigo list of weblinks from the University of Stirling library relvant to aquaculture

A refereed e-journal covering all aspects of open and distance learning

Web 2.0 survey and polling tools

Guide to Open Educational Resources (OERs) and using Web 2.0 services for digital scholars - from the UK Open University