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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
"simSchool is a classroom simulation that supports the rapid accumulation of a teacher's experience in analyzing student differences, adapting instruction to individual learner needs, gathering data about the impacts of instruction, and seeing the results of their teaching." -from About page
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."
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."
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....
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.
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.
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."
A Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) project. "NANSLO provides a technological solution that will address many of the barriers that prevent low-income, first generation college students who are at risk of failing to complete their degrees or pursue science-based careers due to challenges such as work and family obligations or living in rural areas that limit their access to traditional classes."
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."
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.
