Next Gen Learning

"Deep and Surface Approaches to Learning"

By Robert M. Diamond. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2nd edition 1998. (On Worldcat)

"R&D Vigor Trumps Randomized Control Trial Rigor"

(PDF) Presentation by Louise Yarnall & Judi Fusco, SRI International and Ken Kubo, American River College on October 14, 2011.

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

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

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."

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."

ANGEL Learning Management System - merged with Blackboard

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."

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."

Open source content management system.

Mentioned in Integrating into Traditional Systems thread as the CMS to deliver OTTS.

Wiki on EDUCAUSE with ideas on topic.

On EDUCAUSE. Archived webcast (see link, session archive, on this page) "focused on wider campus efforts rather than encouraging faculty to adopt a single tool." -CP

MEIBL, at Abilene Christian University, is a blended learning strategy which creates an active and engaging learning environment.

"Time saved on information transfer through MEIBL strategies enable faculty to mentor learners to engage course content at a deeper level. This project will scale MEIBL to demonstrate effectiveness in STEM programs with diverse and underrepresented student populations. "

Blog of Jam moderator, Bror Saxberg, on What Works for Learning.

Download report (PDF) on this page, see link Denholm. 2011. Scottish Higher Education Employability Conference: strengthening partnerships with employers.

By Mantz Yorke, 2006 in The Higher Education Academy Learning & Employability Series (One) This report offers a concise summary of definitions, approaches, issues and challenges for HEIs.

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

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

From Wikipedia, essentially "Diffusion of Innovations is a theory of how, why, and at what rate new ideas and technology spread through cultures." Theory was popularized this theory in his 1962 book "Diffusion of Innovations"

Mentioned in Engaging Faculty thread in Jam as theory that claims to predict who would be willing to adopt a technology.

The Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM): A Model for Change in Individuals. on The National Academies site, reprinted with permission from the chapter entitled "Professional Development for Science Education: A Critical and Immediate Challenge," by Susan Loucks-Horsley. "The model (and other developmental modesl of its type) holds that people considering and experiencing change evolve in the kinds of questions they ask and in their use of whatever the change is..."

Mentioned in Engaging Faculty thread in Jam as theory that claims to predict who would be willing to adopt a technology.