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"

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.

By David Gibson and Stacy Kruse in Educause Quarterly (EQ), vol 34(4), 2011. SimSchool is an application that enables pre-service teachers to practice with a classroom simulation.

SimSchool is a wave 1 grantee.

By Thomas B. Cavanagh in Educause Quarterly (EQ), vol 34 (4), 2011. Blended Learning Toolkit is an open-access resource that looks to improve student performance and retention.

Blended Learning Toolkit is a wave 1 grantee.

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.

Open source software developed at the University of Michigan that enables users to develop tailored course material "designed specifically for an individual based on data known about that individual."

MTS 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.

With the tagline, Do It In Four, STAR is a student support system to help University of Hawaii undergraduates complete their education in 4 years. They system is web-based and, with tracking, helps students identify potential problem situations with their schoolwork, before the problems escalate.

STAR is a wave 1 grantee.

As per the Welcome statement, "This Blended Learning Toolkit is a free, open resource for educational institutions interested in developing or expanding their learning initiatives." The project was developed at the University of Central Florida, in partnership with the American Association of State Colleges and Universities.

The Toolkit is a Wave 1 grantee.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Project pages for OAAI, which hopes to "develop, deploy and release an open-source ecosystem for academic analytics designed to increase student content mastery, semester-to-semester persistence and degree completion in postsecondary education."

OAAI 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.

This is the project page for cPLTL, a '"cyber" evolution of Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) to an online format.' From the overview, "PLTL is a model of teaching that preserves the lecture and replaces recitation in science courses with a weekly two-hour session. During these interactive sessions (workshops), six to eight students work as a team to solve carefully constructed problems under the guidance of a peer leader." With web conferencing, students can work virtually.

This project is a wave 1 grantee.

By Kevin Mauser, John Sours, Julianna Banks, Randy Newbrough, Tom Janke, Lorie Shuck, Lin Zhu, Gina Ammerman, and Pratibha Varma-Nelson in Educause Quarterly (EQ), vol 34 (4) 2011. Paper profiles the peer-led team learning project cyberPLTL.

cPLTL is a Wave 1 grantee.

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.

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.

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.