We have compiled some free resources we have found over the last few days. you might like to share the most relevant ones with your students
Support for Educators
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Minding your mental health during COVID-19 – from National Women’s Council of Ireland
- Google Teach from Home – hub of information and tools to help teachers during the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis.
- Open University help for other institutions – drop in sessions
- Hope Matters : Mays Imad offers 10 teaching strategies to support students and help them continue to learn during this time of uncertainty.
- Supporting Teaching and Learning through COVID-19
- Sharing courses not viruses – Educational Innovators respond to COVID-19
Support for Students
- How to read and understand a scientific papers : a guide for non-scientists
- Preparing to Learn Online at University – Need advice on how to study online? Discover study techniques and skills for learning online as part of your university studies. from FutureLearn
- Tips for Successful Online Learning from Edx
Enhanced access due to Covid 19
- Cambridge University Press Core Textbooks – Cancelled due to unprecedented demand – but may return
- CUP Resource Plus – During the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak we will be offering Resource Plus to all Cambridge International schools free of charge.
- Techsmith– advice and tutorials on asynchronous teaching as well as free use of screen recording tool, TechSmith Snagit, and asynchronous collaboration platform, TechSmith Video Review.- free to use through the end of June 2020.
- OpenStax makes its online learning tools free
- PDST Distance Learning page – aimed at primary and post primary teachers but has a good listing of online tools and tutorials for using them.