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This site is great! A lot of good information I can use when teaching about US geography and regional misconceptions.

"reed, Negligence, or System Failure? Credit Rating Agencies and the Financial Crisis (2011) Download Case Study (pdf) Download Teaching Notes (pdf) Credit rating agencies are responsible for rating the credit-worthiness of a wide variety of investment opportunities. While the agencies' failure (out of greed or negligence) to properly assess the risk of these instruments leading up to the 2008 financial crisis is well-known, this case explores more encompassing systemic factors, including shifts in corporate culture, that led both to agency failures and the global financial crisis. Keywords: credit rating agencies, Moody's, Standard and Poors, financial crisis, derivatives, subprime mortgaged, conflicts of interest, corporate culture, regulatory oversight, market competition"

"This study provides evidence on how young children can start to direct their learning plans and take responsibility in responding to their problems through active participation in planning and assessment, and it therefore contributes to our understanding of how ECE classrooms can operate as Communities of Learning. In any Communities of Learning, there is always a dual focus: To empower children as learners, using the concept of learning as change in participation, but also to keep a close and critical eye on what the nature of the change is and its relationship with valuable learning. Edwards (2005) calls it "learning as a resourceful action" and argues that it "allows us to examine the processes of learning as well as the outcomes and to consider how they are pedagogically supported" (p. 58). Her argument for research that highlights the cognitive potential of sociocultural approaches to learning can contribute to the research about Learning Cultures in kindergarten (Hodkinson et al. 2008).

Social-cultural engagement

This article from 2008 talks about time management problems among college faculty and suggests ways to combat them.

I just finished writing a blog entry about time management and found this article to be helpful...

Presented at the University of Manitoba June 17th 2008. (for those of you waiting for the Library of Congress presentation, it will be posted July 19th-ish.)

Webpage containing every free response question asked on the A.P. Macroeconomics exam for the past 20 years. The questions and their associated detailed solutions are made available.

Language Learning & Technology Vol.12, No.1, February 2008, pp. 3-11

"Based on a 2008 survey of 20 virtual schools in 14 states, UF researchers found that the average yearly cost of online learning per full-time pupil was about $4,300. This compared with a national average cost per pupil of more than $9,100 for a traditional public school in 2006 (the most recent year in which such data was available). Their cost estimates covered course development and teaching, and administrative and technical expenses. "

"Konrad Glogowski "

Offir, B., Lev, Y., & Bezalel, R. (2008). Surface and Deep Learning Processes in Distance Education: Synchronous versus Asynchronous Systems. Computers & Education, 51(3), 1172-1183.