Useful links to online teaching resources from a range of educational institutions and online educational platforms.
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Open access academic resources
Learnhigher
https://www.learnhigher.ac.uk/
Free teaching and learning resources
Time Management
https://www.learnhigher.ac.uk/category/time-management/
Assessment
These are free courses provided by the OU and include:
https://www.open.edu/openlearn/free-courses/full-catalogue
Produced by The Open University, a world leader in open and distance learning, all OpenLearn courses are free to study. Offering nearly 1000 free courses across 8 different subject areas courses are available to start right away.
Essay and report writing skills
- Understand what writing an assignment involves
- Identify strengths and weaknesses
- Understand the functions of essays and reports
- Demonstrate writing skills.
Developing good academic practices
- Demonstrate knowledge of good academic practice and how to build it into your studies
- Understand how to avoid inappropriate or bad academic practice
- Show knowledge of techniques on how to avoid plagiarism.
Extending and developing your thinking skills
- Feel more confident about studying
- Understand any grades received and how to improve them
- Overcome problems with reading and writing
- Make the most of the opportunities a higher education course provides for developing skills
Key skill assessment unit:
- Demonstrate a strategy for using skills in information literacy over an extended period of time
- Monitor progress and adapt the strategy as necessary, to achieve the quality of outcomes required
- Evaluate this overall strategy and present outcomes from your work, including citations and a bibliography.
Being a student (Multiple Recourses)
- Get acquainted with student life with our related articles, courses, insights into the student experience, help and advice, real student research, events information and community news.
- Understand how learning takes place every day
- Appreciate the qualities, skills and knowledge you have already
- Know better how to use computers for learning
- Understand how reflection and feedback can help you make the most of your learning
- Discuss some important theories about learning
- Develop a learning action plan to help you move forward.
Studying with us helps to develop many skills, and this range of information will help you reach your full potential.
- Preparing assignments
- Types of assignment
- Writing in your own words
- Exam techniques
- Managing stress
- Revision
- Revision techniques
- Critical reading techniques
- Developing academic English
- Giving presentations
- Time management skills
- Getting online and searching the web
- Making the most of your learning style
- Note-taking techniques
- Postgraduate study skills
- Strategic study techniques
Study skills for online learning
- Study tips for online-only modules
- Making notes online
- How to make hyperlinks in your documents
- Working with PDFs (Adobe Reader)
- Switching between open applications
- Getting online and searching the web
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- Writing for University
- Computing help and support
University of Kent – Student Learning Advisory Service
https://www.kent.ac.uk/learning/
Resources include:
Appointments
- Study advice and academic writing appointments
- Maths and statistics appointments
- RLF Writing Fellows (writing development support)
Workshops & workshop materials
Learning resources and information
- Learning resources eg. essay writing videos, study guides and time planners etc.
- Support for Apprenticeships
- Value programme – exam support for Stage 1 undergraduates
- Academic Peer Mentoring
Library & Learning Support provide short videos to support study. https://study.surrey.ac.uk/study-support/resources. These include:
Research skills
- Academic integrity and plagiarism
- Referencing guides
- Literature searching and evaluating information
- Referencing management software
Academic skills
- Writing your assignment
- Being critical
- Presentations
- Quick guides
Study skills
- Using data
- Proofreading
- Reading and note making
- Group work strategies
- Planning and managing your assignment
Assignments, academic words and meanings
- What is academic information?
- Essay
- Report
- Dissertation
- Literature review
- Plus More!
Organisations
Health Education England
e-learning for healthcare
Some modules available without OpenAthens registration
Nursing & Midwifery Council
https://www.nmc.org.uk/ – go to – standards > Guidance and supporting information menu
- Guidance includes:
- Raising Concerns
- Social Media
- Safeguarding
Royal College of Nursing
Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) – Select the e-Learning menu
Offers a number of free e-learning courses
Useful resources
Businessballs contains free to use ethical learning and development resources for people and organisations. Useful resources include:
How to Manage Your Time Effectively and Efficiently
Assertiveness and self-confidence
An Introduction to Building Self-Confidence and Assertiveness
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
Interactive guides and online tutorials: http://www.ehub.elht.nhs.uk/study-skills.html
- General study skills
- Information searching
- Writing assignments, essays and reports
- Writing dissertations and Masters study
- Critical reading and writing
- Critical appraisal
- Mind-mapping and note-making
- Presentation skills
- Academic referencing
- Revision
FutureLearn
Explore the Nursing courses which include:
- Measuring and valuing health: Learn how Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) and Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) are developed and calculated, and how decision-makers use the information
- Ageing Well: Falls: Learn how to identify risk factors and develop ways to assess and reduce the risk of falling
#hello my name is…
https://www.hellomynameis.org.uk/
Campaign for compassionate care co-founded by the late Dr Kate Grainger with her husband Chris Pointer
NHS Confederation Acronym buster
https://www.nhsconfed.org/publications/acronym-buster
- Available as an app from the App Store and Google Play
Best Practice in Nursing
https://twitter.com/BPinNursing
We Nurses
Connecting nurses: sharing knowledge, information, ideas and support in order to improve patient care
