Resources for students and educators

There are many areas of our work and resources that will be of particular interest to those teaching or studying social service related subjects, including:

• The Learning Exchange: our free online library containing thousands of learning resources specifically for social services education and training (including briefings, reports, official publications, learning resources, video clips, case studies, podcasts and radio broadcasts)
• IRISS Multimedia learning materials
• IRISS podcast: downloadable audio
• IRISS videos
• IRISS Insights: a collection of online evidence summaries (limited free hard copies also available on request)
• Leading for Outcomes Guides: training tools to support and explore an outcomes-focused approach to delivering social services in Scotland
• Information literacy toolkit
• Confidence through evidence toolkit
• Data Visualisation tool: a web-based toolkit that allows users to create and share great visualisations from their own information
• Futures toolkit: on-line exercises which support futures thinking
• Free images for use in presentations or reports
• Social media: information on a range of tools to improve information management and sharing. Examples include: RSS, social bookmarking, Instapaper, Twitter and Google Docs.
• SSKS (Social Services Knowledge Scotland): a collection of social services resources to support practitioners
• SWAPBox: a repository that brings together open educational resources from the disciplines of social policy and social work

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For more information about student engagement, please contact Ellen Daly or Michelle Drumm.

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