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Staff Professional Learning: Online

Professional learning links for staff PL

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Evidence for Learning

An Australian site that summarises the research of what works in education and provides guidance for evidence-informed education practice. Comprehensive research is collected and summarised then written in plain English by the Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne.  An online Toolkit shows, at a glance, approaches with the best global evidence and the highest impact.   Australasian Research Summaries provide information about Australasian research.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ACER Australian Council for Educational Research

An Australian independent not-for-profit organisation which began with funding from the Carnegie Corporation in the 1930s and has since grown to become one of the world's largest educational research bodies.  Search their research reports here.
 

ACER Research

 

 

 

 

 


The Conversation Australia

An excellent source of credible and informative articles written by university academics for the general public. Find the latest research and considered opinions here.  The authors of these articles will often respond to requests for more information.

There are over 198 articles on learning, 933 on education,158 on STEM.
 

 

 

Google Scholar - Email Alerts

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.

The beauty of Google Scholar is that you can set up alerts to deliver the latest scholarly articles to your inbox.  Use the menu in the top left to set up alerts for the area you are interested in.

Google Scholar

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Harvard Graduate School of Education: Project Zero

Founded by philosopher Nelson Goodman at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1967, Project Zero began with a focus on understanding learning in and through the arts. Over the years, we have continued our inquiry into the arts and arts education, while drawing together diverse disciplinary perspectives to examine fundamental questions of human expression and development.

Use the Resources link to search for articles

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edutopia

This US based site, along with Lucas Education Researchis funded by filmmaker George Lucas to promote best practice and innovation in education.  Authors of the content are credible and expert.

Edutopia