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WHEN a college textbook, "Principles of Biology," comes out from the Nature Publishing Group in January, one place it won't be is on the shelves of school bookstores. Enlarge This Image An interactive graphic in "Principles of Biology," an electronic textbook from Nature Publishing, teaches students about the symptoms of a stroke. Enlarge This Image An interactive graphic from Wolfram Research lets readers change the display parameters of an oil spill. That's because the book was designed to be digital-only. Students will pay not for a printed edition at a bookstore, but for permanent access on the Internet ($49).

Op-Ed by David Brooks in the New York Times, October 31 2011. Brooks finds that the disparity between college grads and non-grads is much more glaring than that of the "1%" who are the focus of the Occupy Wall Street and similar movements. And he finds that this disparity is seen in small cities and towns all over America. Not only does he cite income disparity, but also family structure and things like health risks.

"Learning is at the center of higher education. It is an essential part of the mission of all colleges and universities. The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) is a community of higher education institutions and organizations committed to advancing learning through information technology (IT) innovation. ELI is a strategic initiative of EDUCAUSE. While EDUCAUSE serves those interested in advancing higher education through technology, ELI specifically explores innovative technologies and practices that advance learning. As these innovations mature, ELI works with the larger EDUCAUSE community to integrate them into the higher education mainstream."

This center, based at the University of Texas at Austin, is looking at the relative success of various intervention/engagement/support methods at community colleges. Follow CCCSE tag for more about this project.

By Professor Terry Doyle, Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning, Ferris State University. No date.

TO'C (week 3, semester 3) used this presentation with her students to generate conversation on their feelings about/experiences of deep learning.

Written by Haley Drucker; edited by Laurie Patsalides; posted on Bright Hub, updated Oct 10 2011.

TO'C (week 4, semester 3) used this article as the source for students to practice their summarizing. At the same time, she felt this article on managing stress would be relevant to their school experience.

From InfoTrac College Edition, published by Cengage Learning. This excerpt was originally in The Sundance Reader, Third Edition, Web Site by Mark Connelly.

NH used this reading (week 7, semester 3) to help her students understand argumentation.

From the Delta College Daily Difference. Article is undated, but Valkenburg was a 2010 Fellow and was inducted at the Association for the Tutoring Profession (ATP) national conference on March 29 2011.

TO'C introduced Valkenburg to her students to help connect them to some of the academic support that will be available to them even after completing their developmental ed classes.

From On Course by Skip Downing, posted by College of San Mateo. Downing argues that the difference between "victim" and "creator" helps students take greater responsibility for their education.

DW shared the link to victim/creator chart after a discussion of Downing and specifically of this concept.

Website run by Skip Downing, author of On Course: Strategies for Success in College and in Life. The site provides practical applications of the On Course principles (free of charge). Strategies are designed with the goal of empowering students to become active, responsible learners. There are links to descriptions of workshops and to registration options.

KG took the On Course course and says "Skip's program changed my life and the way I deal with my students...."

Posted by the Writing Services division of the Student Success Center at St. Louis University. These "10 Myths" try to help students understand that re-writes, feedback, and "writer's block" are facts of life for all of us -- not just for "bad" writers. Other myths are explored as well, all in the interests of making students more comfortable with the process.

TM shared in the coffee klatch.

A guideline statement published by National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), 1987. From the statement: "Faculty members must be given adequate time to fulfill their responsibility to their students, their departments, their institutions, their profession, the larger community, and to themselves. Without that time, they cannot teach effectively."

This came up in a ped circle discussion, late in the semester, regarding workoad and how the demands of college employment tend to get in the way of the reflection, collaborative work, and intellectual development of individual instructors.

ALP at Community College of Baltimore County, Conference dates: June 24th-25th, 2010.

By Thomas A. Angelo and K. Patricia Cross, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1993.

CAT technique used from this resource: Double Entry Journals

TM cites Angelo & Cross as she discusses assessment techniques that she had used. Several other cites which I will also bookmark here.

Center for Student Success (CSS) is part of the Research and Planning Group for California Community Colleges (the RP group). This is a database of nearly 300 case studies.

From the Monroe Community College Math Department. "Solve a Puzzle and you could win a prize!"

By Elizabeth Redden in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Government section, June 6, 2010.

By Shelia Tobias, New York: College Entrance Examination Board: Distributed to the trade by the MacMillan Pub. Co, 1987

On Faculty Inquiry Network. This page links to an article written by Katie Hern and Myra Snell for RP Group's statewide newsletter, Perspectives. The article, Exponential Attrition and the Promise of Acceleration, June 2010, argues that attrition can be guaranteed in long developmental sequences and presents evidence that one semester, open-access courses are a way to increase student completion rates in college-level English and math.

New blog for Parents, teachers of, and students with LD/ADD online resource for postsecondary transition news

This may be a good resource for some of your students.