Research Tools and Resources

The Center for Distance Education research publications @ AUSpace

Search and browse the scholarly collections of the Center for Distance Education (CDE) faculty at AUSpace. AUSpace is Athabasca University’s digital content repository. Its goal is to preserve and disseminate AU scholarly materials. It contains Publications, Articles, Books, Datasets, Learning Objects, Images, Blueprints, Presentations, Audio Recordings, Technical Reports, Videos, Working Papers and more.

Athabasca MDE Thesis Collection now online

All of the Masters of Distance Education theses created since the program began are now available in full text from the AU Library Digital Reading room.

Commonwealth of Learning Practitioner Research Training Modules

Free research training and resource modules available. The Commonwealth of Learning has released a series of print modules (20-40 pages each) on a variety of topics relevant to distance education research. These include evaluation, reporting results, analyzing qualitative and quantitative data, etc. The modules are not comprehensive, but serve as very nice introduction, refresher, or first source training and reference documents. Thanks to COL for this free contribution to the community.

Web Center for Social Research Methods

This website is for anyone involved or interested in applied social research and evaluation. There are a number of resources and links to other locations on the Web that deal in applied social research methods. One resource that CIDER members may find of value is an online version of "The Research Methods Knowledge Base" by William M.K. Trochim. This text is a comprehensive web-based textbook that addresses topics typically found in an introductory undergraduate or graduate course in social research methods.

elearning Reviews - research on elearning reviewed for you

elearning-reviews.org provides individuals interested in elearning research with reviews of relevant publications. Topics include Pedagogy,Human Computer Interaction, Strategy, Technology, Quality, Resource Management, and Competence Development. Researchers will likely find relevant reviews from most disciplines involved in elearning, practitioners will find research results that may be applicable to their day-to-day elearning, and students may benefit from the literature overview provided by the reviews.

The Kaleidoscope Open Archive - TeLearn

TeLearn aims to become THE Open Archive for the Technology Enhanced Learning community in Europe. The TeLearn repository enables researchers to search, browse and submit and view research publications from across the European TEL domain and from beyond. Kaleidoscope is the European research network supported by the European Community.

Conceptual Framework Object

This learning object helps students struggling to create a conceptual framework or concept map for a major project or thesis. - Review by Dr. Terry Anderson

Intute

From the Intute website - Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in our database and write high quality descriptions of the resources. The database contains 121376 records

Bubl

Center for Digital Library Research, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Scotland. Catalogue of Internet Resources Selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas

Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LC) offers a wide variety of online databases and Internet resources to the public via the Web, including its own online catalog. In addition, LC provides a gateway for searching other institutions' online catalogs and extensive links to resources on the Internet.

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP)was designed so that each entry is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field. All entries and substantive updates are refereed by the members of a Editorial Board before they are made public.

Bartleby.com

Incorporated in 1999, Bartleby.com has become one of the most comprehensive reference publisher on the web, "meeting the needs of students, educators, and the intellectually curious". Provides access to: Encyclopedia, Dictionary, Thesaurus, Quotations, and English Usage resources. Search by subject, title, author.

Resources and Referencing Tools

If you would like to add resources or tools to the CIDER "Resources and Referencing Tools" please send the link to terrya@athabascau.ca and we will be happy to add them. Online and desk top application referencing software summaries

Data Analysis Resources and Tools

If you would like to add resources to the CIDER 'Data Analysis Tools" please send the link to terrya@athabascau.ca and we will be happy to add them. Online and application data analysis software summaries

Data Mining Resources and Tools

If you would like to add resources to the CIDER 'Data Mining Tools" please send the link to terrya@athabascau.ca and we will be happy to add them. Online and application data mining software summaries.

Research Collaboration Tools

If you would like to add resources or tools to the CIDER "Research Collaboration Tools" please send the link to terrya@athabascau.ca and we will be happy to add them.