Organising, planning and structuring your writing project

• Gingko is a free tool which helps you to structure a project and break down your work into more manageable components. 
• Evernote is a free tool for note taking, organising, and archiving. It will also allow you to clip web pages and attach files to your notes.
• MindMup is a free mind mapping tool to help with brainstorming, creating presentations and document outlines.
• Scrivener is a licensed (for fee) application environment for writers. You use it to design and organise your writing with cards (for notes), folders (to store sources and various objects), and text. A scrivening is a composite document that encapsulates all the text documents.

Massive Online Open Courses get real...

After decades of hype and speculation surrounding the potential for digital technology and online services to transform the delivery of third level education appears to have made an impact. FutureLearn, Coursera, and edX are setting the standard for public, open, accessible University style education available to almost anyone with an internet connection and, if needed, local material, tools, resources to follow the courses. Coding is particularly well addressed by providers like CodeAcademy through the use of web based run-time environments that do away with the need to install complex tool chains. There is also room for subscription based for profit offerings like Udacity and Udemy in the commercial space, satisfying the demand for specialised training services directed towards proprietary packages and industry skill qualifications in 'trending' or 'buzz' areas like Bitcoin, Blockchain, Data Anaytics, Design Thinking, Big Data, and for tools like Photoshop, Salesforce, and SAP. Some providers like the Khan Academy and Linda.com straddle the divide between free/open, and for-fee education.

Sources:
FutureLearn
edX
Coursera
Linda.com
Khan Academy
Udacity
Udemy
Codecademy: Learn to code

Photos from the design/build challenge 2018-19