Free Resources

Resources for Lecturers & Students

Health & Wellness

• Exploring Mindfulness
• Wellness: Tips For Taking Care of Yourself During a Stressful Time
• Overcoming Anxiety with To-Do Lists
• Counselling Services:
  • Off-campus individual counselling sessions at their physical or virtual offices are provided by our psychological services provider, Families in Action (through referral); contact Student Services to help arrange a session.
  • Trinidad and Tobago Association of Psychologists
  • FIndCareTT

Overcoming Performance Problems

• Essential tips for overcoming performance anxiety
• Voice Image Secrets
• Overcome Fear or Anxiety of Public Speaking
• Litemind (Blog on efficient use of the mind)
• Stress Busters for Students to Avoid the Food Trap

Academic Journals, Case Studies, Books & Articles

• Directory of Open Access Journals (an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals)
• Harvard Business Review
• Cornell University Library Archives (Open access to e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics)
• NALIS (membership with NALIS grants access to their EBSCO database and e-books)
• HN Global (resources for Pearson BTEC HND students)
• List of educational search engines

Academic Essay Guides

• University of Toronto Advice on Academic Essay Writing
• Harvard University: Beginning the Academic Essay
• University of Plymouth Study Guides

Referencing Guidelines

• http://libweb.anglia.ac.uk/referencing/harvard.htm (Guide to the Harvard System of Referencing)

Lectures

• Academic Earth (Online courses from the world top scholars)
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT Open Courseware. (Free lecture notes, exams and videos)
• Open Culture (Free Online Courses from Top Universities)
• Sloan School of Management
• University of Waterloo Centre for Teaching Excellence
• Khan Academy ( Changing Education by providing free world-class education)

 Note-Taking and Sharing / Collaboration

• Evernote (Note taking, web clipping, cloud storage, syncing between devices)
• Springpad (similar functionality to Evernote but everything is online, no syncing necessary. Available on any mobile, web browsing phone. No pen input, since everything is done on a web application)
• Microsoft OneNote (digital note-taking app from Microsoft. Available for all devices)
• Dropbox (Allows secure sharing of files and folders. Public folder gives every item a unique URL for sharing with cloud storage and automatic syncing. Blocked behind a corporate firewall, but will sync whenever a supporting connection is available)
• Microsoft OneDrive (Save files and photos to OneDrive and get them from any device, anywhere)
• Google Drive (Safely store and share your photos, videos, files and more in the cloud. Your first 15 GB of storage are free with a Google account)
• SlideShare (Upload and share presentations, documents and professional videos on blogs, Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn. Over 60 million people use SlideShare every month for research, sharing ideas, connecting with others, and generating business leads)

Surveys and Questionnaire Guides

• Qualtrics University Articles on Survey Design
• Seminar Collections (A repository of seminar documents)

Presentation and Concept Mapping

• Concept Mapping (Graphical tools for organizing and representing knowledge)
• Institute for Human and Machine Cognition Concept Mapping Software (Download)
• Tufts University Visual Understanding Environment (Creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research)

Authors, Speakers & Book Websites

• Founders at Work (Collection of interviews with founders of famous technology companies about what happened in the very earliest days)
• Malcolm Gladwell’s Website
• Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) (Ideas and actions for 21st-century enlightenment)
• Technology Education and Design (TED) Riveting talks by remarkable people
• Charlie Rose (Interviews with contemporaries on technology, media etc)
• Charlie Rose YouTube channel
• Why Programs Fail (A guide to systematic debugging)
• American Rhetoric (A collection of American Speeches)

Programming Resources

• Project Euler (A collection of programming exercises of varying difficulties)
• Sourceforge (A repository for open-source software)
• Python programming (Programming language that lets you work more quickly and integrate your systems more effectively)
• Stack overflow (Programming Guidance)
• Programming in Haskell (Haskell is one of the leading languages for teaching functional programming, enabling students to write simpler and cleaner code, and enables the student to structure and reason about programs)

Other

• Smart Planet (ZDNet’s collection of articles on business, technology, innovation and energy)
• Open Yale Courses (Free open courses from Yale University via Coursera.org)
• Math Help (a leading digital publisher specializing in middle school, high school and college-level math)