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By Diane M. Reddy, Raymond Fleming, Laura E. Pedrick, Katie A. Ports, Jessica L. Barnack-Tavlaris, Alicia M. Helion, and Rodney A. Swain in EDUCAUSE Quarterly Magazine, Volume 34, Number 4, 2011. Authors describe the U-Pace instructional approach, started at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. U-Pace combines self-paced, mastery-based learning with instructor initiated "Amplified Assistance" (conveyed through e-mail).

Project of the University of California to create "student-centered educational opportunities" online and to enable researchers to then use assessment data to look at "how online education can be effectively integrated into the UC undergraduate curriculum."

This UC project 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."

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

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.