Useful links

Research and education organisations:

• Action Research 
• British Educational Research Association 
• British Educational Leadership, Management & Administration Association
• Bundaberg Curricullum Exchange
• Capital Community College http://webster.commnet.edu/mla/index.shtml
• Commonwealth of Learning:  http://www.col.org/
• Critical Methods Society
• Deliberations on Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
• Department of Education, South Africa
• Distance Education and Training Council:  http://www.detc.org/
• Distance Education Clearinghouse:  http://www.uwex.edu/disted/
• Education Development Centre http://main.edc.org/
• Ford Foundation:  http://www.fordfound.org/   
• Fulbright Scholarships:  http://www.iie.org/cies/
• Human Science Research Council http://www.hsrc.ac.za
• Id21-Education:  http://www.id21.org/education/index.html
• International Research Foundation for Open Learning http://www.col.org/irfol
• IS World Net 
• ISI Web of Knowledge: Transforming research: http://www.isinet.com/isi/index.html
• List of other distance education web sites:  http://www.uwex.edu/disted/desites.html
• National Research Foundation:  http://www.nrf.ac.za/
• OBE http://www.petech.ac.za/robert/obe
• SA Association for Reasearch and Development in Higher Education (SAARDHE) 
• SAIDE: South African Institute of Distance Education http://www.saide.org.za 
• SAQA: South African Qualifications Authority http://www.saqa.org.za/  
• Scholarship at the University of Saskatchewan http://www.usask.ca/tlc/teaching_portfolios/
• Society for Research into Higher Education http://tutorials.beginners.co.uk/ and http://www.srhe.ac.uk  
• South African National Departments 

International education and training conferences and publications:

• The Conference Database of the Distance Education Clearinghouse http://www.uwex.edu/disted/conf/  
• Education Network of Australia (http://www.edna.edu.au/index.html)

E-learning:

• Bridges.org (http://www.bridges.org/). 
• Research on the digital divide.
• International Journal on E-learning (http://www.aace.org/pubs/ijel/) 
• Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (http://www.aace.org/)
• How many online? Go to http://www.nua.ie/surveys/how_many_online/
• Learning Circuits
• Online journal on e-learning by ASTD (http://www.astd.org/astd)
• Links to virtual universities (http://www.unesco.org/iau/tfit_virtual_universities.html)
• List of e-learning resources compiled by Eiffel Corp. 

Publishers and databases:

• John Hopkins University Press http://www.press.jhu.edu/press/journals/index.htm
• Kluwer Publishers http://www.wkap.nl/
• New Forums Press
• Radical Pedagogy http://radicalpedagogy.icaap.org/
• Taylor and Francis
• Unisa library http://www.unisa.ac.za/Default.asp?Cmd=ViewContent&ContentID=17

Writing guidelines:

• Colorado Stete University http://writing.colostate.edu/index.cfm
• Coursework Assistance http://www.courseworkassistance.com/
• Famahu 
• Research writing skills
• Writing for publishing 
• Writers Write http://www.writerswrite.com

Online tutorials (research):

• CSU Research Tutorials 
• Internet for Social Research http://www.vts.rdn.ac.uk/
• Online writing lab http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
• Research Instruction Online

Online tutorials (web training):

• http://tutorials.beginners.co.uk/
• http://www.w3schools.com/
• http://www.guidetocomputertraining.com/library/how-to-use-the-internet

Presentations:

• Unisa Quality Promotion Unit