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By David Lascu in Educause Quarterly, Vol 34 (4), 2011. The goal of the project, as outlined in the Key Takeaways, is to improve students' college readiness using open educational resources (OER) to help them prepare for higher education.

David Lascu, a Jammer, shared this paper that he authored.

By Josh Baron and Kim Thanos, Educause Quarterly (EQ), vol 34(4), 2011. This paper looks at two projects -- Kaleidoscope, which works with OERs and OAII, which looks at academic analytics -- and imagines how they might work together to "facilitate a cost-effective systemic approach to address the challenge of college completion."

Both projects (Cerritos College and Marist College) are wave 1 grantees.

This page features some recorded webinars about the Bridge to Success program (scroll approx 3/4 of the way down the page to Webinar Archives).

The Higher Education Academy (HEA) is a UK organisation that provides services to the higher education sector in order to enhance the quality and impact of learning and teaching. The website offers a Resources Centre section with links to reports and OERs.

Focus Session: Open Educational Content: Addressing Challenges and Seizing Opportunities.

Resources may include ideas on how to engage faculty in new initiatives.

From their website, "Open Learning: Bridge to Success (B2S) offers free, open educational resources to prepare adults to successfully and confidently transition to a college environment, to pursue advanced qualifications, or to be successful in their chosen careers."

Bridge to Success is a Wave 1 grantee.

Platform for delivering learning content.

Mentioned in Integrating into Traditional Systems thread as one of the technologies used at campus where OTTS is being introduced "...challenge is: disparate current practices moving to a common innovation."

On IMS Global Learning Consortium site. "Common Cartridge is the first of three major standards that comprise a new generation of Digital Learning Services standards to support a new generation of learning technology. Others are Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) for applications, systems and mashups, and Learning Information Services (LIS) for learning information."

Introduction for students to NGLC funded Ohio Scaffold to the Stars project

Website offering a library of over 2,400 educational videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 150 practice exercises.

mentioned in Deeper Learning thread in NGLC Jam 2012 as a case that the Stanford professor who founded Udacity, a start-up for low cost online courses expected to reach masses, may follow for handling feedback. "progressive and multiple successes on practice problems demonstrates deeper learning." see tag 'article' for the link to the article about this professor in The Chronicle of Higher Education.