Arden Library

Library Databases

Multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text journals.

Provides access to the Key Texts for your programme all in one place. You can use BibliU online and offline using a web browser or a mobile app for Android or IOS and as this is your own personal Library you will also have the ability to highlight and take notes.

Cambridge University Press Journals collection

Cambridge University Press Journals collection consists of more than 420 peer-reviewed academic journals covering subjects across the humanities, social sciences and science, technology and medicine.

eBook Central

A multi-disciplinary collection of e-books aligned to Arden’s programmes.

EBSCO eBook Collection

A multi-disciplinary collection of e-books aligned to Arden’s programmes.

EBSCO Open Dissertations

A database with records for more than 1.2 million electronic theses and dissertations from around the world.

Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)

ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is an authoritative database of indexed and full-text education literature and resources. It includes records for a variety of source types, including journal articles, books, conference papers, curriculum guides, dissertations and policy papers.

Gale Power Search

GALE Power Search is a cross-search platform that enables users to do one search across multiple GALE databases.

Gale Research Complete

Gale Research Complete contains a wealth of resources including Gale eBooks (books and encyclopaedias), Gale Academic OneFile (journals), Gale General OneFile (magazines), Gale OneFile News (current newspapers), Gale Literature (English literature resources) and Archives Unbound (primary historical sources).

Newswires

Provides near real-time access to top world-wide news from Associated Press, United Press International, PR Newswire, Xinhua, CNN Wire, and Business Wire on a continuous basis.

SAGE Journals Premier Collection

Provides access to journal titles across a range of subjects and sub-disciplines.

ScienceDirect Freedom Collection

ScienceDirect provides access to the scientific, technical and medical journals of Elsevier and participating publishers. It contains more than 18 million articles and book chapters from over 2,650 peer-reviewed journals and 42,000 e-books, including books, book series and major reference works, and digital archives that reach as far back as 1823.

Statista

Statista is a data and statistics platform that consolidates more than 1 million statistics over 80,000 topics from more than 22,500 sources.

Referencing guide

As a PG Cert student, you will be following AU Harvard. You can download the complete referencing guide here:

AU Complete Guide to Harvard Referencing

AU Short Guide to Harvard Referencing

Professional Bodies and Associations

Professional bodies and associations are organisations you will engage with throughout your career. Becoming familiar with them during your studies is a great way to keep up to date with developments in your field and build your professional network.

Advance HE

Advance HE is a member-led, sector-owned charity that works with institutions and higher education globally to improve higher education for staff, students and society through enhancing confidence and trust in HE, addressing systemic inequalities and advancing education to meet the evolving needs of students and society while supporting the work of their members and the HE sector.

British Educational Research Association | BERA

The British Educational Research Association (BERA) is the leading authority on educational research in the UK, supporting and representing the community of scholars, practitioners and everyone engaged in and with educational research both nationally and internationally

Staff and Educational Development Association | SEDA

SEDA’s mission is to enhance HE, through educational and professional development, for the benefit of students, staff and the wider public. SEDA does this by offering scholarly and accessible developmental resources and opportunities to everyone involved in positive educational change and innovation in HE.

Podcasts

Pedagodzilla – The pedagogic podcast with the pop culture core

This podcast is an elaborate effort to boost and broaden our knowledge of pedagogic theory, practice and research. It’s a heck of a dry subject though, so we have a bit of fun by clumsily slapping geeky analogies over the top from our favourite bits of pop culture nerdery.

TED Podcasts

Subscribe to listen on Apple Podcasts, the TED Android app, or wherever you get your podcasts.

EdTech Podcast - for global education innovation and edtech

The Edtech Podcast aims to improve the dialogue between ‘ed’ and ‘tech’ through storytelling, for better innovation and impact

WonkHE Show - The Higher Education Podcast

Every week a panel dissects the week’s big policy developments, as well as featuring interviews, features and views from around the sector.

Useful Websites

Advance HE

Association for Learning Technology | ALT

A professional body for Learning Technology in the UK, ALT supports a collaborative community for individuals and organisations from all sectors including Further and Higher Education and industry and provides professional recognition and development. Membership is open to anyone with a professional interest in using digital technologies for learning, teaching and assessment.

JISC

Jisc is the UK digital, data and technology agency focused on tertiary education, research and innovation. Providing managed and brokered products and services, enhanced with expertise and intelligence to provide sector leadership and enable digital transformation.

JISC Discovery tool | Building digital capability

We live, work and study in a digital world. It’s important to know and understand what your digital skills and capabilities are, so that you can improve on these for the benefit of your studies, as well as your future career. Use the Jisc Discovery Tool now to explore and develop your skills. You may have used this tool before – how have your skills changed since then? Feel free to revisit this tool as often as you like, and see your Digital Capabilities grow!

Digital Education Practice

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Referencing guide

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Podcasts

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