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Best Open Access Journals and Scholarly Articles for Research Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

I am very familiar with this feeling and I hope the collection of resources I assembled in this post will help alleviate it, even a tiny bit. Elsevier Elsevier is another reputable academic publisher that offers various open access resources for researchers, authors, and academic institutions.

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10 Online Tools That will Make Your Students Better Researchers By @anttooley

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Once they have the ample resource materials to back their arguments, students then need to “bag it and tag it” in preparation for the citations and references. The real value of this free reference manager is in the publicly shared libraries of other users. Between research and referencing, referencing is worse. DataElixir.

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Strictly for adults?

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Reference Knowles, M. 2005) The Adult Learner: The definitive classic in adult education and human resource development (6th ed.), Burlington, MA: Elsevier Previous posts in this series: 1. If we ignore this, we are missing a huge opportunity. Holton, E. and Swanson, R. Anderson ACT-R Cognitive Architecture 2.

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7 Good Academic Search Engines for Science Teachers

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While some of the resources you might come across are available for free most of the academic literature, as you know, is paywalled and you can either use your institutional affiliation or purchase the document yourself to access it. Scopus Scopus by Elsevier is a database of citations and abstracts of peer-reviewed literature.

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Best Websites to Help You Find Academic Books and Journal Articles

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One of my favourite things about Google Scholar is reference mining. You can use WorldCat to search for a wide variety of resources including research theses, books, magazines, songs, maps, genealogical records, movies, and more. ERIC provides all the data you need to build your reference list or formatted bibliography.

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7 Good Google Scholar Alternatives for Academics and Student Researchers

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You can use WorldCat to search for a wide variety of resources including research theses, books, magazines, songs, maps, genealogical records, movies, and more. ScienceDirect ScienceDirect is a platform by Elsevier that offers access to a huge collection of peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters including open access materials.

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10 Characteristics of 21st Century Learners

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Collaborative learners are adept at communicating, sharing ideas, and pooling resources to achieve common goals. In my experience, digitally proficient students are better equipped to access a vast range of learning resources and collaborate on a global scale. 684; see also Zelezny and Schulz, 2000). 6, eds Burke C.

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