article thumbnail

Learner Resources in the Digital Age

BrainCert

Digital Libraries: Gone are the days when you had to physically visit a library to access a wealth of knowledge. Digital libraries, like Project Gutenberg and Google Books, have digitized vast collections of books and made them freely accessible to readers worldwide.

article thumbnail

2015 Top Tools for Learning

Performance Learning Productivity

Google Scholar: When I’m researching something, Google Scholar is the first port-of-call. A quick search for ‘workplace learning’ on Google Scholar returns almost one-and-a-half million results in less than a tenth of a second. It’s pretty helpful when I’m trying to improve my musical skills, too.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

2016 Top Tools for Learning

Performance Learning Productivity

Google Scholar: Scholar opens a rich world of academic work at the click of a button. I can recall spending weeks in university library stacks searching abstracts and then needing to decide whether to pay the money to photocopy the papers and possibly also have them translated.

Evernote 100
article thumbnail

Recommended Reading Summary: A Chapter of “Emerging Technologies for the Classroom”

Adobe Captivate

Google Scholar features most of the chapter for free. Instructors may choose to overcome challenges by partnering with library media specialists who have a greater familiarity with technology integration and information technologies. Below is this month’s chapter summary.

article thumbnail

Down to a 't'

Learning with e's

Google Scholar is a very useful tool if you are in the business of research. Social Software and was published in Health Information and Libraries Journal. Social Software and was published in Health Information and Libraries Journal. The paper was entitled The Emerging Web 2.0 The paper was entitled The Emerging Web 2.0