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Reports, resources and links on education issues in Asia

An initiative to encourage and help develop open and distance education in the Asia Pacific region. Contains reports, resources and links.

In consonance with the mission of Commonwealth of Learning, Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia promotes the meaningful, relevant, and appropriate use of information and communication technologies to serve the educational and training needs of Commonwealth member states in Asia.

The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) is an intergovernmental organisation created by Commonwealth Heads of Government to encourage the development and sharing of open learning/distance education knowledge, resources and technologies. COL is helping developing nations improve access to quality education and training. The site contains both studies and policy documents and a wide range of open educational resources

Quick background on learning theories useful in designing courses

Useful resource for writing learning outcomes

A Delicious Links Stack for using Twitter in Education

AMC Ltd are specialists in e-learning for the aquatic sciences. Their multi-lingual glossaries, dictionaries, bibliographies and ESP language learning modules are targeted towards users of all ages and needs in the aquatic sciences domain. This is an out-of-the-ordinary marine science website, rich in multi-lingual resources in 10 European languages

An open textbook on digital literacy, mainly for school sector teachers

A huge variety of resources (info-kits, tools and topic information) to support further and higher education. UK based and focused, but many of the topics will be relevant internationally.

Guide to using twitter as a social learning tool

UK Special Interest Group on engaging students through in-class technology

Interesting and relatively new group on using new technology tools more effectively in the lecture room or classroom

JISC site providing information and guidance on open educational resources

This is a very useful site for information on sharing or using Open Educational Resources

Project report on innovation and especially the use of information and communication technologies in teaching and learning for aquaculture, fisheries and aquatic resources management education

Here's the first report from WorkPackage 5 to get the group started.

A blog from Sue Waters discussing tips for using Web 2.0 technologies in education, and more generally innovation in education and encouraging creativity. Sue is an aquaculture teacher in Australia.

A social network set up to provide opportunities for collaboration between aquaculture educators and industry.

UK education sector starting point for accessing reports, resources, news and discussion about the application of Web 2.0 technologies in higher education

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.

Social network for people interested in the application of Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies in education

A crowdsourcing blog on ways of using Web2.0 tools and IT in the classroom