Research Proposals

• Tips For Writing Your Thesis Statement
• Writing a Postgraduate Research Proposal

Research Methods

• Basic Business Research Methods
• Social Science Research: Principles, Methods, and Practices
• Choosing a Qualitative Research Approach 
• Scientific Method

Literature Review

• Literature Reviews Explained
• How to Write a Literature Review
• Conducting a Literature Review

Thesis & Dissertation Writing

• How to Write a Thesis
• Tips For Writing Your Thesis Statement
• Writing a Dissertation

Project Planning & Management

• Project Management
• Project Planning and Management Tools

Scholarly Research Sites

• AJOL (African Journals Online)
• Google Book Search
• Google Scholar
• Highwire Press: Stanford University

Subject Directories/Gateways

• Academic Info: Subject Directory of University Level Internet Resources
• BUBL: Information Service for Higher Education Community
• Digital Librarian: A Librarian`s choice of the best of the web
• Infomine: Scholarly Internet Research Collections
• InterDok: Directory of Published Conference Proceedings
• Internet Public Library: University of Michigan
• Intute: Web Resources for Social Sciences and Business
• LII (Librarians` Internet Index)
• PINAKES - A Subject Launch-pad
• Portals of the World
• Voice of the Shuttle: For Humanities Research
• WWW Virtual Library: Subject Guides to Specialized Areas

Citation Guides

• APA (American Psychological Association) Style
• CSE (Council of Science Editors) Style
• Chicago Manual of Style 17th Edition
• Harvard Style (University of Pretoria)
• MLA (Modern Language Association) Style
• Citation Styles: APA, MLA, Chicago, Turabian, IEEE
• Cite this for me: Harvard, APA and MLA citation styles

Copyright, Plagiarism, Intellectual Property and Patent Issues

• Copyright & Neighbouring Rights Protection Act 6 of 1994 (Namibia)
• Copyright Protection
• Plagiarism
• What is Intellctual Property?
• Intellectual Property in Namibia
• Patents
• Patent Registration in Namibia
• WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization)

Publishers` Catalogues and websites

• Addison-Wesley (Pearson)
• Amazon Books
• CUP (Cambridge University Press)
• McGraw-Hill Higher Education Publishers
• MIT (Massachusetts Institute of technology) Press
• OUP (Oxford University Press)
• Palgrave Macmillan Publishers
• Pearson
• Routledge - Including Taylor & Francis and Frank Cass
• Springer Publishing: includes Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Thomson - Including Brooks/Cole and Wadsworth
• Wiley Online Library

Departments

• Customs and Excise
• National Institute for Educational Development
• National Planning Commission
• Office of the Auditor General
• VAT in Namibia

Institutions

• Government of Namibia
• GIPF (Government Institutions Pension Fund)
• NCCI (Namibian Chamber of Commerce and Industry)
• Parliament of Namibia

National Qualifications Authorities

• NQA (Namibia Qualifications Authority)
• SAQA (South african Qualifications Authority)
• NQAI (National Qualifications Authority Ireland)
• NZQA (New Zealand Qualifications Authority)
• QCA (Qualifications and curriculum Authority) - UK
• SQA (Scottish Qualifications Authority)

National

• Informante Free Community Newspaper
• Namibian
• Namibia Economist
• Namibia News
• New Era
• Southern Times

Regional

• Africa Economies
• Africa Online
• Economic Times: International Business
• Financial Mail Johannesburg
• Traders Publication
• Mail and Guardian
• Business Day Johannesburg
• Business Report South Africa
• Other African Related News Resources
• Star Newspaper: South Africa

International

• Business Week
• Financial Times
• Forbes
• Newsweek
• Time in Partnership with CNN

International EdTech Organisations

• UNESCO: ICT in Education
• International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
• Center for Education Innovations: Educational Technology

Education Technology Journals

• International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education (Open Access)
• British Journal for Educational Technology (NUST Subscription)
• Computers & Education (Open Access)
• Educational Technology & Society (Open Access)
• Educational Technology Research and Development (NUST Subscription)
• International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education (Open Access)
• Research in Learning Technology (Open Access)
• TechTrends: Linking Research & Practice to Improve Learning (NUST Subscription)

Regional Edtech Organisations

• Injini: Africa’s EdTech Incubator
• EdTech East Africa

Education Technology News

• EdTech Magazine: Focus on Higher Education
• EdSurge: Education Technology News and Resources
• The Tech Edvocate
• EdTech Times
• Education Technology: The Trusted Voice of ICT in Education

Tools: Video Production

• Audacity (Open Source – Sound recording/editing)
• Blender (Open Source – video editing)
• Lightworks (Free Version – video editing)
• Shotcut (Open Source – video editing)
• Avidemux (Open Source and good for beginners of video editing)
• Freemake (Free Video Converter)
• Splice (Free iOS App for iPhone and iPad)
• Quik (Free iOS and Android App)
• Adobe Premier Clip (Free iOS and Android App)

EdTech Tools

• Edmodo – a social network for students and teachers
• Socrative – teachers create educational exercises and games
• Thinglink – for creating interactive images
• TEDEd – collaborative platform for creating online lessons
• Kahoot – educational platform based on games and questions
• Edpuzzle – customize regular videos with engaging interactive learning tools
• edX – Online courses from top universities
• WolframAlpha – AI driven electronic genius for answering calculations or research

EdTech Experts

• Terry Heick of TeachThought
• Vicki Davis from The Cool Cat Teacher Blog
• Richard Byrne from Free Technology for Teachers
• Kathy Schrock
• Larry Ferlazzo
• Jackie Gerstein’s and her blog “User Generated Education”
• Audrey Watters and her blog “Hack Education”

Go to the Open Access and Scholarly Communication webpage to find similar initiatives.

What Are OER?

Open Educational Resources are educational materials and resources that are publicly accessible, meaning that they are openly available for anyone to use and, under some licenses, to re-mix, improve and redistribute.

Why Use OER?

OER is a movement in education that seeks to counter costly, commercially produced learning content, typically textbooks, with publicly accessible content that is licensed so that it can be freely distributed and shared.

Here is an official definition from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD):

Digital materials offered freely and openly for educators, students, and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning, and research. OER includes learning content, software tools to develop, use, and distribute content, and implementation resources such as open licenses.

Educators and learners as well as learning institutions are driving its development. OER provides an alternative to the rising costs of education. It alleviates the burden of student debt while providing opportunities to students who might not otherwise be able to afford or access materials. In response to the effectiveness of OER compared to traditional commercial textbooks, research now indicates that OER are equally or more effective.

OER provides an opportunity to try new ways of teaching and learning, many of which are more collaborative and participatory.

Who Uses OER?

Educators are taking advantage of OER to (1) move away from traditional textbooks and (2) improve learning by introducing students to more varied and current learning content. In higher education, faculty are adopting OER as a way to save their students money but also increase the likelihood that students will acquire and read learning content.

OER Resources

• BC Campus Open Ed - links to nearly 100 subject-organized open textbooks
• California Open Online Library for Education - resources for free and open learning materials and textbooks
• Community College Consortium for OER - this consortium of over 250 community colleges points to resources that can help faculty get started using open educational resources.
• Directory of Open Access Books: DOAB - thousands of academic, peer-reviewed books and book chapters
• LibreTexts - open textbooks from multiple disciplines with an emphasis on 1st and 2nd year courses.
• Mason OER Metafinder - search engine that searches multiple OER sources with one interface.
• MERLOT - a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education.
• NCBI Bookshelf - provides free online access to books and documents in life science and healthcare.
• Now is the Time for Open Educational Resources - a guide to OER by subjects taught at Ryerson University.
• OASIS (Openly Available Sources Integrated Search) - OER search tool to facilitate the discovery of open learning content in different media formats.
• OER Commons - Open Textbooks - this catalogue contains hundreds of college-level open textbooks from higher education institutions around the world.
• Open Educational Resources: Introduction – a Library guide from WITS University in South Africa.
• Open Textbook Library - a catalogue of open access textbooks.
• OER Starter Kit - this starter kit has been created to provide instructors with an introduction to the use and creation of open educational resources (OER), and is primarily intended for users who are entirely new to Open Education.

• OER World Map - shares information on behalf of the worldwide OER community, using local knowledge to describe the OER ecosystem. Built with cutting edge linked open data technology, OER World Map visualizes the world of OER and supports a range of widgets and tools through powerful statistical analysis.
• OpenStax College Textbooks - provides access to dozens of textbooks with an emphasis on large enrollment courses.
• Open SUNY Textbooks - offers a limited number of textbooks but a good example of a university run open textbook project.
• Open Textbooks Toolkit - the BCcampus Open Textbook Toolkit is your starting point on how to change education with just one textbook. It provides a list of our open textbooks, information and guidelines for adopting and assigning an open textbook.
• Open Book Publishers - source of open scholarly monographs.
• Open Culture - hundreds of free books, movies and courses.
• Project CORA: Community of Online Research Assignments - particularly good for assignments that cover information literacy topics such as evaluation, ethics, etc.
• 1,000+ Open Textbooks - duplicates resources found on other sites, such as the Open Textbook Library, but may lead to some additional open textbooks.
• University of Massachusetts Amherst - OER Guide - this resource guide will lead to many additional sources of information and other textbook programs.