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Francis Su's examples from this address are all specific to the field of mathematics, but his threads of play, beauty, and truth seem to apply to all fields, and his challenges about justice and love clearly apply to the entire educational endeavor.

Links to 12 talks from a January 2011 MAA contributed paper session on service learning in college mathematics. A resource from this summer's faculty institute on community-based research and service learning.

A bibliography on service learning in the mathematics curriculum from the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse. One of the resources from this summer's institute on service learning.

Check out this sample flipped lesson that I created in just a few minutes on the TED-Ed (or is it EdTED) site. Currently TED-Ed has only a limited number of videos, but perhaps all TED lectures will be available for flipped lessons in the future. Interested in seeing what you can do yourself? Then go to http://ed.ted.com/ and click on the tour (or Learn More) links. Next, create your own account and get started. This speaker brings together the fields of mathematics, marine biology, feminine handicrafts, and environmental activism. Seriously!

News article about an online calculus class to be offered this summer by Macalester and St. Olaf.

The author argues that coping strategies for anxiety in the classroom are insufficient and that teachers need to reorient instruction to move away from a focus on performance toward one on exploration and investigation; she provides links to her own activities and student testimonials.

Maybe naming where math aversion started can help turn it around.

Fascinating example of the creative use of typography to explain complex concepts. The example is about the use of color to connect an equation with its definition, but I can easily imagine the same principle working for maps or conceptual models. (And do read the comments about using appropriate color palettes for the colorblind.)