http://thedailyphd.com/# - A useful site that aggregates a lot of news and information about PhDs, the PhD process and related issues.

landing.athabascau.ca - My article proposing (only very slightly tongue-in-cheek) a massive open online PhD. It goes into some detail about ways this could be done, and the issues that might prevent it from happening. I wrote the article as an exercise to see whether the...

thesiswhisperer.com - A bunch of motivational tips by Alex Hope, with some useful advice for those struggling with the doctoral learning journey. Tip 10 (ignore tips 1-9) is particularly valuable: the take-home message is that every doctorate (or other large activity in...

cgi.stanford.edu - This is a useful article via Tomorrow's Professor for postgraduate students choosing their supervisory team, with a carefully thought-through set of criteria that includes expertise, accessibility, timeliness of feedback, previous success,...

patthomson.wordpress.com - A nice simple explanation of how to come up with (and not come up with) research questions for a thesis. Distilled from Trowler's book (available cheaply at http://www.amazon.co.uk/Doctoral-Research-Higher-Education-ebook/dp/B007W57J5K )

www.timeshighereducation.co.uk - Great article from the Times Higher Ed giving hints and tips on how not to write a PhD. Good stuff.

academicalism.wordpress.com - A straightforward and brief bit of common sense for those having to give feedback on someone else's writing. The key emphasis is on always looking for the good stuff, and always offering constructive ways to improve the bad stuff. I'd add to the...

www.igi-global.com - Book by Jon Dron. Abstract Every learner is on a trajectory, an individual path that involves choices about what to do next in order to learn, choices that are bounded by intrinsic and extrinsic constraints. In some cases the learner controls...

zaidlearn.blogspot.ca - A very neat set of infographics providing assistance for those writing learning outcomes. Each of the wheels shown here contains lists of terms to use and some provide help with identifying grading criteria. While Benamin Bloom's taxonomy is a...

donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.ca - Donald Clark's wonderful and often incendiary blog about learning and learning technologies. Check out the links down the side of the page to learning theorists for some great, concise and critical views of around 50 different learning theorists,...