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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.

By Katherine Stevenson and Louis Zweier in Educause Quarterly (EQ) vol 34 (4), 2011. This model, developed at California State University, Northridge, pairs a supplemental hybrid course with an existing math course as an added intervention for students.

This project is a Wave 1 grantee.

From the site: "Wayang Outpost is an intelligent electronic tutoring system that uses multimedia and animated adventures to help prepare middle and high school students for standardized math tests....

Wayang is a Wave 1 grantee.

This is the project page, with links to all aspects of the project, including project members, papers and demos, design and implementation, etc. The project was developed by Carnegie Learning.

Math Fluency Data Collaborative (MFDC) is a Wave 1 grantee.

This project explicitly works to "disrupt the cycle of poverty" with a blended learning approach for targeted students in New York State to "catch up" and "complete" their educations. The project includes "an enhanced developmental math course and a Blended Online degree program."

This project is a Wave 1 grantee.

Google Books excerpt of Language, literacy, and learning in educational practice: a reader by Stierer and Maybin, see pp 45-58. This excerpt includes Vygotsky's work on proximal development. Also known as Vykotsky.

mentioned in Deeper Learning thread re: adaptive testing. "Vygotsky's "zone of proximal development," the problems are situated for success with an incremental stretch by the student. Adaptive testing can well serve competency based learning- earn an "A" by progressing X number of steps or reach some threshold of competence. Attainment is self-reinforcing and can be pragmatically related to grades."

ALEKS produces web-based, artificially intelligent educational software used for assessment and then individualized lesson plans. Developed at the University of California, Irvine with funding from the National Science Foundation.

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.