External digital learning resources
SWAP bookmarks
To help you search all of the external resources listed on the SWAP website and more SWAP has a delicious bookmark account. You can access this at http://delicious.com/swapweb .
Gateways
The BBC website has many digital learning resources.
EDiNA is a JISC service that provides online national services for education and research and includes a wide range of links to audio and video resources, digital mapping resources and learning and teaching resources.
Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the very best web resources for education and research including many digital learning resources.
IRISS (Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services) hosts The Learning Exchange a digital library of learning resources for social services and social work education and training. Resources include information shets, official publications, interactive learning resources, video clips, case studies and radio broadcasts, all of which may be used for non commercial educational purposes.
JORUM is a free online repository service for teaching and support staff in UK Further and Higher Education Institutions, helping to build a community for the sharing, reuse and repurposing of learning and teaching materials.
MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) is a leading edge, user-centered, searchable collection of peer reviewed, higher education, online learning materials created by registered members, and a set of faculty development support services.
Audio
The National Archives website includes a podcast series, for example on immigration and social history.
Spoken Word Services promotes the usability and integration of digital spoken word repositories to improve undergraduate teaching and includes a rich collection of digitised audio resources, associated texts and images, and a set of integrated online annotation tools.
Images
Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement can be used for educational purposes. Please note that this site contains sensitive and offensive materials, which are however important and well presented.
The Jim Crow Museum was established to promote racial tolerance by helping people understand the historical and contemporary expressions of intolerance. The museum serves as a base for quality scholarship addressing the complexities of race relations.
Video
The BBC has a large collection of video nation clips
British Universities Film and Video Council (BUFVC) is a representative body which promotes the production, study and use of moving image, sound and related media in higher education and research.
Organisations
The Health Education Assets Library contains free, high-quality digital materials for health sciences education.
Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) provides world-class leadership in the innovative use of ICT to support education and research.
HandsOnScotland is an online toolkit of resources for anybody working with (or studying to work with) children and young people.
The Association for Learning Technology (ALT) is a professional and scholarly association which seeks to bring together all those with an interest in the use of learning technology.
Skills for Access is an online resource providing informed, practical and pragmatic advice and information on multimedia, accessibility and learning.
TASI is a JISC Advisory Service, which provides advice, guidance and training to the UK's Further and Higher Education community on the creation, use and management of digital media resources.
The Social Care Institute of Excellence (SCIE) has created a series of multimedia resources on topics such as 'Law and social work', 'Communication skills' and 'Residential child care'.
TechDis has some useful advice on the creation of digital learning materials.
CETLs
The Centre for Inter-Professional e-Learning (CIPeL) in Health and Social Care's aim is to develop and disseminate solutions to the barriers to interprofessional and interdisciplinary learning amongst students of health and social care professions, through the use of innovative e-approaches.
The Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Reusable Learning Objects (RLO-CETL) has developed open-source learning objects and templates for adaptation.
