This Subject Guide page contains Websites, Online Resources, Books, Journals and a Toolbox.

Websites

The websites for Teacher Education are listed on a seperate page.

Online Resources

Myilibrary (ebooks)

Myilibrary is a growing collection of electronic books or "ebooks" available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The full texts of these books are available electronically and the collection is expanding all the time. (Login with Athens when you are off site.)

Ebrary

The collection of Further Education e-books supplied by JISC. (Login with Athens when you are off site.)

Gale Databases

The College Library subscribes to a large number of electronic journals and magazines through a service called 'Gale Databases'. If you have never used 'Gale Databases' and need help here is a short user guide.

Intute

With millions of resources available on the Internet, it can be difficult to find useful material. Intute is a free online service that helps you to find the best web resources for your studies and research.

EBSCO Social Index

EBSCOhost is an online reference system with a variety of popular full text databases including this one for Social issues.

EBSCO Teacher Reference Centre

The EBSCO online reference database for trainee teachers and trainers.

Excellence Gateway of the Learning and Skills Improvement Service

The leading online service for everyone who works in the post-16 learning and skills sector in England.The Excellence Gateway offers a range of resources, support and advice, along with opportunities to participate and share good practice.

University of Huddersfield

The University of Huddersfield website. If you have your Huddersfield University username and password you can can access the metalib resources directly although you may have to login with Athens when you are off site.

 

University of Huddersfield, Partner Institutions

The University of Huddersfield have a separate website designed to support their students at partner institutions.

 

Edge Hill University, Partner Institutions

The Edge Hill University website contains various resources designed to support their students at partner institutions. (You will need to log in with your Edge Hill username and password.)

U.K. National Statistics

The official U.K. statistics site drawn exclusively from government sources.

Books

Subject Shelf Mark
Education 370
Research projects 370.78
Assessment 371.26
Study skills 371.3028
Dyslexia 371.914
Adult education 374
Basic education 374.012
Literacy 374.012
Numeracy 374.012
Teaching adults, FE 374.13
Curriculum 375
Mentoring 658.3124
Careers in teaching 371.023

Journals

Toolbox

How to use the Internet
The Intute Virtual Training Suite provides free Internet tutorials to help you learn how to get the best from the Web for your education and research. The tutorials are written and updated by a team of subject specialists based in universities and colleges across the UK. Click the list of tutorials and then chose the one that interests you, or have a look at the Internet Detective which will also help you to evaluate the reliability and usefulness of web pages.

Athens
Some of the Learning centre's electronic resources will require you to log in using the Athens validation service. (Especially if you use them outside College.) You will need an Athens username and password to do this. Obtain an "Athens Student Logon Request Form" from your Learning Centre; complete and return the form. You will receive notification of your account through your TMC student e mail.

Technology Update
Technology and its applications are changing so quickly that it is often difficult to keep up with the new jargon, services, equipment, applications and so on. With this problem in mind we are developing a page to help keep tutors up to date in this field. If you think that you might benefit from this service have a look at our technology guide.

Words used in assignments
The words used when questions or assignments are set can be confusing if you are not used to them. This list explains what tutors and examiners are looking for and what you should write about.

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