19 Further resources

In this section you will find further resources that may be useful for your learning. Please also access alternative publications that are more closely aligned to your professional context. However, be mindful that we can learn a lot from other contexts 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

Bach, F. 2024. Learning theory from first principles. The MIT Press. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049443/learning-theory-from-first-principles/

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

Jacka, L. and Lindsay, J. 2025. HyFlex Learning and Teaching: A Guide for Educational Innovation. University of Western 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

Stommel, Friend, C. and Morris, S. M. (eds.) 2020. Critical digital pedagogy. A collection. https://cdpcollection.pressbooks.com/

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

Weller, M. 2022. Metaphors of EdTech. Athabasca: AU Press, Athabasca University https://www.aupress.ca/books/120309-metaphors-of-ed-tech/

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

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

Publications from international organisations

International Council for Open and Distance Education https://www.icde.org/knowledge-centre/

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) https://www.oecd.org/en/publications.html

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.

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

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

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., 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

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