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By Josh Fischman, and part of The Chronicle (of Higher Education's) 2011 Special Report on Online Learning, published Nov 6 2011. Central Piedmont Community College developed an Online Student Portal learning system to improve retention among its students. They have had success with the system (in use 2004-2008). Now, with a Next Gen grant, they will roll the system out to 6 additional local schools to see if they can match the retention improvements. The system is based both on learning styles and on frequent intervention by students and counselors.

The Online Student Portal learning system is a wave 1 grantee.

Landing page for work that the Community College Research team at SRI has conducted, including publications, presentations in workforce education and general education, and policy.

Report to download (PDF) By Louise Yarnall, Larry Gallagher & Geneva Haertel, December 2009, SRI International: Inquiries Into Community College "...report on determining what big ideas matter to undergraduates in biology, particularly non majors."

Located in Sinclair Community College, Student Success Plan services include a plan developed with an SSP academic coach. The program requires students to take a placement test, but then gives them a structured plan of action.

SSP is a Wave 1 grantee.

By Matt Leavy and Steve Rheinschmidt in Educause Quarterly (EQ) vol 33 (4), 2010. ICCOC, the Iowa Community College Online Consortium, is using "analytics to identify at-risk students so that educators could intervene...." The analytics are drawn from ICCOC's online learning platform, Pearson LearningStudio.

The e-analytics project at ICCOC is a wave 1 grantee.

By Russ Little in Educause Qurarterly (EQ), vol 34 (4), 2011. Student Success Plan is case-management software used by Sinclair Community College to improve student retention and college completion rates. This paper describes the project, as well as plans to expand services beyond Sinclair.

Student Success Plan is a wave 1 grantee.

Classroom Salon, developed at Carnegie Mellon, is a tool that encourages active learning, with readers able to annotate and tag directly into the text, highlighting passages of interest. Initially developed to help students improve their writing, it is also being used in other learning and training projects.

Classroom Salon is being used with a blended learning project (developed at Univesrrity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) as part of a Wave 1 grantee project, titled "A Socially Centric Blended Learning Model for at risk Youths at an Urban University"

Download (Microsoft Word format) of abstract for Do the Math! Do the Math is one of the Wave 1 winners in the Next Gen Learning Challenges project. Using the principles of course redesign, as set by National Center of Academic Transformation (NCAT), the four partners (Chattanooga State Community College, Jefferson Comunity and Technical College, University of Hawaii - Mauii College and Education Trust) have come together to redesign their developmental math courses.

OpenStudy is a for profit social learning network where students ask questions, give help, and connect with other students studying the same things.

Announcement on Central Piedmont Community College site. May 11, 2011.