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BBC Learning for Adults is the BBC's selection of the “best sites for learners from across the internet”. Aimed at the general public, resources support learning for ICT, personal and subject skills.
BBC’s study skills websites is a selection of online courses covering a range of study skills: includes internet use, preparing for exams, and planning to study. The list changes as new resources are selected.
BUBL is a national information service for the higher education community, run by the Centre for Digital Library Research at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland. BUBL aims to “offer fast, easy-to-use and reliable access to selected high-quality resources of academic relevance”.
Learndirect is the web presence of the UK’s University for Industry. At present registration and support for courses is only offered to UK residents, but the site offers “taster courses,” free of charge, for people anywhere in the world to try out.
HERO (Higher Education & Research Opportunities in the UK) is the official gateway site to the UK's universities, colleges and research organisations. Useful if you are considering an online course.
JISC is the Joint Information Systems Committee, an independent advisory body that works with further and higher education in the UK, providing strategic guidance, advice and opportunities to use ICT to support learning, teaching, research and administration.
National Grid for Learning is a UK government funded resource for teachers and learners. This is a gateway to educational resources on the Internet. The NGfL provides a network of selected links to websites that offer high quality content and information.
Open University - good study guides give details of all the study guides published by the Open University. You can order printed versions online and you can download tasters of each publication.
Open University - learning guides offers a range of learning skills resources - you can spend time on a broad area, such as revising for exams, or you can dip into sections within each resource.
The Open University Safari offers “a guided expedition through the information world. We hope that it will help you to feel more confident about finding, evaluating, and using information”.
The Resource Discovery Network (RDN) is a collaboration of over seventy educational and research organisations. Follow links through the Social Services gateway to find resources for education and teaching.
The RDN Virtual Training Suite is a set of online tutorials designed to help students, lecturers and researchers improve their internet, information literacy and IT skills.
The People's Network is a project connecting all UK public libraries to the Internet, as part of the Government's commitment to give everyone in the UK the opportunity to get online.
University of Leicester - Information Retrieval Skills Tutorial for Distance Learners provides a suite of tutorials and guidance for enrolled students which include the information retrieval skills tutorial.
UK online is the web gateway to all UK government sites.
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