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Tools for students

Submitted by Dominik Lukes on Tue, 03/06/2008 - 12:41.
Project: Education and Technology
Categories: educational web | research methodology | web2.0

This list of useful applications for university students was published a year ago but it still has useful ideas.

New online tool helps students share research results

Submitted by Dominik Lukes on Tue, 03/06/2008 - 08:44.
Project: Education and Technology | Research IT Skills | Research Student Resource
Categories: educational web | research dissemination | research methodology | research methods | research skills | use of technology for learning | web 2.0 | web2.0

iBreadCrumbs.com offers a simple way for students to record their online research and share their results with others. It works by installing a toolbar in Firefox (version 2 only so far) that can be turned on when you're doing research and collects websites you find relevant.

2,000 words a quality mark for Wikipedia articles

Submitted by Dominik Lukes on Wed, 28/05/2008 - 11:32.
Categories: research ethics | research methodology | research techniques | research tools | technology
One of the significant complaints about Wikipedia is that there is no reliable way to assess the quality of an individual entry. A new research shows that the length of the article is a very good indicator of quality. Entries longer than 1,830 (or about 2,000) words, i.e. the length of a decent essay, are usually fairly good quality.

New resource for research ethics

Submitted by David Bridges on Sat, 01/12/2007 - 00:00.
Categories: philosophy of education | research ethics | research methodology

A first draft of a new research ethics resource is now available on the TLRP site. http://www.tlrp.org/capacity/rm/wt/bridges . It's still a work in progress. Comments welcome.