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Mentioned in Choice Event: A Pedagogy of Caring (MZ)

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.

MyMathLab, a product of Pearson Education, is a series of online courses that accompanies Pearson's textbooks in math and statistics.

Mentioned in choice event, Tutorial services - What are best?, also mentioned in pedagogy circle, radical ideas: variety vs. monotony.

ALEKS produces web-based, artificially intelligent educational software used for assessment and then individualized lesson plans. Developed at the University of California, Irvine with funding from the National Science Foundation.

Mentioned in pedagogy circle, radical ideas: variety vs. monotony.

Youtube video. Advancing K-12 Technology Leadership, Consortium for School Networking(COSN)

Based on the 1977 book about architecture, A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction, and three subsequent volumes, this website expands upon the ideas of architectural pattern, looking at community, but also at computer patterns. "A Child's History of Pattern Language" (first click on the pattern link) attempts to make these ideas even more accessible.

While on the surface, architectural patterns have little to do with pedagogy patterns, the underlying ideas here seem very similar to those of GSCC. Also interesting to see how they've built them out on the web.

An overview by Diana Laurillard. On ALT Open Access Repository. From OLWeekly, March 11

An online only grad school for teacher preparation in NY state helps teachers in their own classrooms instead of in a teacher prep class outside of where they work. Videos of teachers teaching and other techniques are used to train teachers.

By Ken Bain, Harvard University Press, 2004. According to its description, this book is based on a 15-year study and concludes that "it's not what teachers do, it's what they understand." The best teachers know their subjects well, but also know how to motivate and challenge their students. They believe "that teaching matters, and that students can learn."

RA discussed this in the notes for her lesson, week 3, semester 3.