"The New Media Consortium (NMC) is a community of hundreds of leading universities, colleges, museums, and research centers. The NMC stimulates and furthers the exploration and use of new media and technologies for learning and creative expression."
By Peter Riley Bahr, published in The Review of Higher Education, vol 33(2), winter 2010. The article looks at remediation. Full abstract available on this page. Full article is available by subscription. Check with your college library for access via document delivery.
By Colby and Colby. Published in Computers and Composition, Volume 25, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 300-312. Reading Games: Composition, Literacy, and Video Gaming. Abstract only available here for free. Full article for purchase or through document delivery at your college library.
Vol 25, Issue 3 of Computers and Composition (journal). This is the table of contents of full issue. Only abstracts available for free; full articles for purchase or via document delivery from your college library.
ALP, developed at the Community College Baltimore County, is an innovative approach to basic writing programs that accelerates basic writing students through their developmental writing course and ENG 101 in one semester.
Young, Vershawn Ashanti. Published in College Composition and Communication. 55.4 (2004): 693-715. The author looks at the differences between black and white language. This page from the CCC Online Archive includes an abstract, works citing, and works cited.
From the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. A Networked Improvement Community (NIC) is aimed at dramatically increasing the proportion of community college students who are mathematically prepared to succeed.
Offered through LaGuardia Community College Center for Teaching and Learning, STM helps create partnerships between students and faculty to explore uses of digital media in the classroom. See lagcc tag for related bookmarks.
By Scott Jaschik, from the News section, Inside Higher Ed, March 30, 2010. Katrina Nichols, Rosemary Arca, and Marisa Klages took part in the annual meeting of the League for Innovation in the Community College. This article describes their presentation and the GSCC project more generally. Links to the GSCC blog.
A report from the Brookings Institute that the 14 billion dollar American Graduation Initiative targeting community colleges was dropped from the president's education proposal when it was folded into the health reform initiative last week. Too bad.
Like GSCC, NCAT was also the recipient of a Gates Foundation emerging technologies grant. NCAT will redesign developmental math courses in community colleges integrating technology and learner-centered pedagogy.
This program is offered by the Association of American Colleges & Universities, as part of its Liberal Education and America's Promise (LEAP) initiative, and is a contribution to the national dialogue on assessment in education.
By the Conference on College Composition (CCCC) Committee on Assessment, November 2006 (revised March 2009). This document outlines the CCCC's position on writing assessment, noting that "given the high stakes nature of many of these assessment purposes, it is crucial that assessment practices by guided by sound principles..."