General Learning Resources and Library

CILIP - www.cilip.org.uk

CILIP Courses - www.cilip.org.uk/trainingcourses

CyMAL: Museums, Archives and Libraries Wales - www.cymal.cymru.gov.uk / www.cymal.wales.gov.uk

Museums, Libraries & Archives Council (MLA) - www.mla.gov.uk

 

General Education

Association of Colleges - www.aoc.co.uk

Association of Scottish Colleges - www.ascol.org.uk/

BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation FE site) - www.bbc.co.uk/learning

British Dyslexia Association - www.bdadyslexia.org.uk

BIS (Department for Business, Innovation & Skills) - www.dius.gov.uk

Educator's Reference Desk - www.eduref.org - An American site providing 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses

ESCalate: Education Subject Centre (of the HE Academy) - www.escalate.ac.uk

Estyn http://www.estyn.gov.uk/

FENC (Further Education National Consortium) - www.fenc.org.uk

Fforwm (FE Colleges in Wales) - www.fforwm.ac.uk

HMI Scotland http://www.hmie.gov.uk/

JISC TechDis Service http://www.techdis.ac.uk - The JISC TechDis Service aims to be the leading educational advisory service, working across the UK, in the fields of accessibility and inclusion

Information Literacy Group - www.informationliteracy.org.uk

Institute for Learning - www.ifl.ac.uk

Learning & Skills Council (LSC) - www.lsc.gov.uk

Learning & Skills Improvement Service - www.lsis.org.uk/LSISHome.aspx

Learning & Skills Network - www.lsneducation.org.uk

Lifelong Learning UK - www.lifelonglearninguk.org

LSD Agency Key Skills Support Programme - www.keyskillssupport.net

National Learning Network - www.nln.ac.uk

NFER (National Foundation for Education Research) - www.nfer.ac.uk

NIACE (National Institute for Adult & Continuing Education) - www.niace.org.uk

Ofsted (Office of Standards in Education) - www.ofsted.gov.uk

Open & distance learning quality council - www.odlqc.org.uk/odlqc

Schoolzone - www.schoolzone.co.uk

Teacher Resource Exchange - www.tre.ngfl.gov.uk

Teachernet - www.teachernet.gov.uk

TES FE Focus - www.tesfefocus.co.uk

University for Industry (UfI) - www.ufi.com 

Academic (FE & HE) learning resources

Athens (Access management services) - www.athens.ac.uk

Becta - www.becta.org.uk

BUBL (Bulletin Board for Libraries) – bubl.ac.uk

CoFHE (Colleges of Further and Higher Education group of the CILIP) – www.cilip.org.uk/specialinterestgroups/bysubject/cofhe

EDINA - http://edina.ac.uk/eig/  (Requires Athens username and password)

Resource Discovery Network (RDN) - www.rdn.ac.uk

SCONUL (Society of College, National and University Libraries) – www.sconul.ac.uk

Sheffield College (Links to other educational sites) - www.sheffcol.ac.uk/links/

Information & learning technology

CHEST (software, dataset, training materials and other IT products for the Education and Research Community) - www.chest.ac.uk

JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) - www.jisc.ac.uk

Netskills (Internet training) - www.netskills.ac.uk

NILTA (National Information and Learning Technology Association) - www.nilta.org.uk

NLN (National Learning Network) - www.nln.ac.uk

Office for Library & Information Networking (including eLib) – www.ukoln.ac.uk

UKERNA/JANET (UK Education and Research Networking Association) - www.ja.net

Last updated: 22-02-2010