College of Education: Library and Research Resources

Although scholarly resources that are peer-reviewed are the best quality resources, sometimes beginning with non-scholarly resources will give you insights into your topic. Reading a variety of different types of resources such as newspapers, magazines, blogs  and websites to get the basics of a topic is called lateral reading. Scholarly articles and books take time to be published and if your topic is a current issue, you may find out more about your topic in blogs and from presentations. AI or artificial intelligence is one example of this type of topic.

Here are some examples of more popular sources to explore:

• The Chronicle of Higher Education
• Change Magazine
• Wired Magazine
• The Educause Website
• The AAC&U website
• Wikipedia
• The EducationWeek news
• ERIC Education Reports

Sometimes a visual tools is helpful in helping you see pattens and connections around your topic. Open Knowledge Maps renders a concept map of subtopics and groups articles .Each circle contains a group of related articles that you can click on and explore and this may help you patterns of subtopics.