19 Further resources
In this section you will find further resources that may be useful for your learning. Please also access alternative publications, also in different languages, that are more closely aligned to your professional context. However, be mindful that we can learn a lot from other contexts and cultures too.
Open books
Abegglen, S. Burns, T., Heller, R. F., Madhok, R., Neuhaus, F., Sandars, J. and Sinfield, S. (eds.) 2025. Stories of hope. Reimagining education. Open Book Publishers. https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0462
Alpaydın, Y. and Demirli, C. 2022. Educational Theory in the 21st Century. Science, Technology, Society and Education. Palgrave Macmillan Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9640-4
Andersen, N. 2022. Enhancing Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility (IDEA) in Open Educational Resources (OER). University of Southern Queensland. https://usq.pressbooks.pub/diversityandinclusionforoer/
Bach, F. 2024. Learning theory from first principles. The MIT Press. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049443/learning-theory-from-first-principles/
Bower, M. and von Mengersen, B. (Eds.). 2025. Creative Technologies Education: Students as Digital Designers (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003490715
Chaturvedi, S., Prabhu, K. S., Saha S. 2025. Wellbeing, Values and Lifestyles. Towards a New Development Paradigm. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-4730-6
D’Ignazio, C. and Klein, L. F. 2020. Data feminism. MIT Press. https://data-feminism.mitpress.mit.edu/
Dron, J. 2023. How education works. Teaching, technology, tips, AU Press, https://doi.org/10.15215/aupress/9781771993838.01 https://www.aupress.ca/books/120320-how-education-works/
Ehlers, U.-D. and Eigbrecht, L. (Eds.) 2024. Creating the University of the Future. A Global View on Future Skills and Future Higher Education. Springer VS Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-42948-5
Felten, P., Lambert, L. M., Artze-Vega, I. and Tapia, O. R. Μ. 2023. Connections are everything: A college student’s guide to relationship rich education, John Hopkins University Press. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/oa_monograph/book/111986
Forbes, L. and Thomas, D. 2025a. Professors at play. Online Playbook. Real-world techniques for a more playful online classroom. Play Story Press. https://doi.org/10.17613/2xtvw-rqx52
Forbes, L. and Thomas, D. 2025b. Professors at play. Real-word techniques from a more playful higher education classroom. Play Story Press. https://doi.org/10.17613/611dv-8qq85
Jacka, L. and Lindsay, J. 2025. HyFlex Learning and Teaching: A Guide for Educational Innovation. The University of Southern Queensland. https://usq.pressbooks.pub/hyflex/
James, A. 2025. PLAYI. How genAI is being integrated into playful learning in higher education. https://engagingimagination.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/playi-a.pdf
Olivier, J. ed. 2021. Self-directed multimodal learning in Higher Education. https://books.aosis.co.za/index.php/ob/catalog/book/210
Piaget, J. 1973. To Understand Is to Invent: the future of education; right to education in the modern world. New York: The Viking Press. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000006133
Smith, J. M., Dukes, J., Sheldon, J., Nnamani, M. N., Esteves, N. and Justin Reich 2025. A Guide to AI in Schools: Perspectives for the Perplexed. https://tsl.mit.edu/ai-guidebook/
Stommel, Friend, C. and Morris, S. M. (eds.) 2020. Critical digital pedagogy. A collection. https://cdpcollection.pressbooks.com/
Thomas, D. and Forbes, L. 2024. Professors at play. AI playbook. Play Story Press. https://professorsatplay.org/ai-playbook/
Urmeneta, A. and Romero, M. 2024. Creative applications of AI in education. Palgrave Macmillan Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55272-4
Watters, A. 2021. Teaching machines: The history of personalised learning. MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/12262.001.0001
Weller, M. 2022. Metaphors of EdTech. Athabasca: AU Press, Athabasca University https://www.aupress.ca/books/120309-metaphors-of-ed-tech/
Wenger-Trayner, E., Wenger-Trayner, B. Reid, P. and Bruderlein, C. 2023. Communities of practice within and across organizations. A guidebook (2nd edition). https://www.wenger-trayner.com/cop-guidebook/#pdf
Zawacki-Richter, O. and Jung, I. Eds. 2023. Handbook of open, distance and digital education. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2080-6
Zhou, M. and Brown, D. 2015. Educational Learning Theories: 2nd Edition. Galileo Open Learning Materials. University System of Georgia. Education Open Textbook. https://oer.galileo.usg.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=education-textbooks
Publications from UK government and UK-based organisations
AdvanceHE https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/
Association for Learning Technology (ALT) https://www.alt.ac.uk/
Association for Learning Development in Higher Education (AldinHE) https://aldinhe.ac.uk/
Department of Education, UK Government https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-education
Internet Matters (UK) https://www.internetmatters.org/
Office for Students https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/
Quality Assurance Agency (Education Subject Benchmarks) https://www.qaa.ac.uk/the-quality-code/subject-benchmark-statements/subject-benchmark-statement-education-studies
Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA) https://www.seda.ac.uk/
Publications from international organisations
Commonwealth of Learning (COL) https://www.col.org/resources/
Education International https://www.ei-ie.org/en/resources/research
Global OER Graduate Network (GO-GN) https://go-gn.net/resources/
International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) https://www.icde.org/knowledge-centre/
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) https://www.oecd.org/en/publications.html
Organisation of Southern Cooperation (OSC) https://osc.int/documentation/
The Asia South Pacific Association for Basic and Adult Education (ASPBAE) https://www.aspbae.org/resource-centre/
United Nations (UN) publications https://www.un.org/en/academic-impact/page/publications
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) https://www.unesco.org/en/publications
Open journals in education from across the world
Search for and use diverse sources in your inquiry and learning to broaden your knowledge and understanding and consider perspectives that seem perhaps further away from your context and culture. Reading widely broadens our horizons.
Global open access journals Directory of Open Access Journals – DOAJ
Global open access portal https://goap.info/okp/goap/
Open and free content on JSTOR and Artstor https://about.jstor.org/oa-and-free/
Africa
African journals online https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajol
Asia
Open Access Journals Related to East and Southeast Asia https://froginawell.net/frog/sources/open-access-journals-related-to-east-and-southeast-asia/
Australasia
Open access Australasian Directory Type: Open Journals
Europe
Open Research Europe https://open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/
North America
American Educational Research Association https://www.aera.net/Publications/Journals
Latin America
Open access Spanish and Latin American repositories: Open access journals
https://guides.lib.ku.edu/c.php?g=95187&p=617923
Openly available visuals
Images of AI library, a growing collection of openly licensed images that realistically portray the technology and the people behind it and point towards its strengths, weaknesses, context and applications
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has made most (not all) artworks available to download free of charge under a public domain licence. Just access the collection.
We like sharing, the award winning openly licensed photo collection and annual competition and an invitation to share and re-use photos.
Podcast series
Global Citizenship Education Interview series by Dr Emiliano Bosio
Please share any you have found useful from different part of the world and in different educational contexts and we will add here.
Open courses
The Higher Education Authority and open courses
Module related publications from colleagues in the School of Education in the last five years
Abegglen, S., Nerantzi, C., Martínez-Arboleda, Karatsiori, M., Atenas, J. and Rowell, C. (Eds.) 2024. Towards AI literacy: 101+ creative and critical practices, perspectives and purposes. #creativeHE. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11613520
Atenas J., Havemann L. and Nerantzi C. 2025. Critical and creative pedagogies for artificial intelligence and data literacy: an epistemic data justice approach for academic practice. Research in Learning Technology, 32. https://doi.org/10.25304/rlt.v32.3296
Brew, M., Taylor, S., Lam, R., Havemann, L. and Nerantzi, C. 2023. Towards developing AI literacy: Three student provocations on AI in higher education, Special issue: Generative AI and implications for open online and distance education. Asian Journal of Distance Education. http://www.asianjde.com/ojs/index.php/AsianJDE/article/view/726
Garcia, M. B., Metwally, A. H., Wang, T., Ofosu-Ampong, K., Alasgarova, R., Nerantzi, C., Nixon, J. and Bozkurt, A. (2026) Psychological and Developmental Repercussions of Pervasive AI Usage in Schools: A Review of Educational Benefits and Challenges. In: J. Araujo and S. Snider (Eds.), Responsible AI Integration in Education, 87-118). IGI Global Scientific Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3373-6007-2.ch003
Howard, S. K., Swist, T., Gasevic, D., Bartimote, K., Knight, S., Gulson, K., Apps, T., Peloche, J., Hutchinson, N. and Selwyn, N. 2022. Educational data journeys: Where are we going, what are we taking and making for AI? Computers and Education. Artificial Intelligence, 3, 100073. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeai.2022.100073
Iredale, A., Stapleford, K., Tremayne, D., Farrell, L., Holbrey, C. and Sheridan-Ross, J. 2020. A review and synthesis of the use of social media in initial teacher education. Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 29(1), 19-34.
Lamb, M. and Arisandy, F. E. (2020). The impact of online use of English on motivation to learn. Computer assisted language learning, 33(1-2), 85-108. https://doi.org/10.1080/09588221.2018.1545670
Nerantzi, C. 2025. Meraki: Towards transformative learning in higher education. University of Leeds. https://doi.org/10.63560/MEPU56789
Nerantzi, C., Abegglen, S., Karatsiori, M. and Martinez-Arboleda, A. (Eds.) 2023. 101 creative ideas to use AI in Education. #creativeHE. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8072949
Nerantzi, C., Hammersley, J. and Kioupi, V. 2025. Towards the uncreative university. A provocation. Philosophy and Theory in HE Conference. PaTHES Conference 2025 – The Creative University. Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin, Dublin. 10-12 June, Zenodo. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15607400
Nerantzi, C., Kader, Y. and Korosec, M. 2025. Open scholars: Putting their heads above the parapet or transitioning from Grimms’ Rapunzel to Disney’s Tangled. Open Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. 4, 1 (Feb. 2025). https://doi.org/10.56230/osotl.129
Nerantzi, C., Avgerinou, M. D., Vlachopoulos, P., Galani, M.-E. (Marita) and Karayianni, I. (2025) People, places and pasta or Uncreative explorations as collective intelligence (V1.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16372420
Nerantzi , C., Kioupi, V., Malone, C., McDonald, D., Mushonga, T., Vallance, S., Borde, R., Rofe, J. S., Parsons, M., Pullman, C., Roxby Wardle, N., Mack, A., Bezbaruah, R., Nyabundi, A. and Michel-Villarreal, R. 2025. Design thinking as a pedagogical approach for the Jam, a fast-paced cross-institutional programme with a focus on social justice. Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603108.2024.2444517
Nerantzi, C., Malone, C. Hammersley, J., Rofe, J. S., Mitsa, D., Borde, R. and Kioupi, V. 2025. Freedom to experiment? Design as an impetus for collaboration. Special issue: Design thinking and Service design for the HE sector. Perspectives: Policy and Practice in HE Journal. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603108.2024.2446937
Stapleford, K. 2023. Two modes of feedback are better than one: Educator experiences of providing audio feedback on student work. Studies in Technology Enhanced Learning, 3(2). https://doi.org/10.21428/8c225f6e.70898b2c
Stapleford, K. and Lee, K. 2024. Online Postgraduate Education: Re-imagining Openness, Distance and Interaction (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003044048
Stapleford, K. and Lee, K. 2020. Re-examining the theory of transactional distance through the narratives of postgraduate online distance learners. In European Conference on e-Learning (pp. 579-XX). Academic Conferences International Limited.
Xiao, J., Bozkurt, A., Nichols, M., Pazurek, A., Stracke, C. M., Bai, J. Y. H., Farrow, R., Mulligan, D., Nerantzi, C., Sharma, R. C., Singh, L., Frumin, I., Swindell, A., Honeychurch, S., Bond, M., Dron, J., Moore, S., Leng, J., Slagter van Tryon, P. J., Garcia, M., Terentev, E., Tlili, A., Chiu, T. K. F., Hodges, C. B., Jandrić, P., Sidorkin, A., Crompton, H., Hrastinski, S., Koutropoulos, A., Cukurova, M., Shea, P., Watson, S., Zhang, K., Lee, K., Costello, E., Sharples, M., Vorochkov, A., Alexander, B., Bali, M., Moore, R., Zawacki-Richter, O., Asino, T. I., Huijser, H., Zheng, C., Sani-Bozkurt, S., Duart, J. M. and Themeli, C. 2025. Venturing into the unknown: Critical insights into grey areas and pioneering future directions in educational generative AI research. TechTrends. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-025-01060-6
