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An important compilation of articles about contexts, theories, and practices for the teaching of basic writing.

The full-text of this book, ed Terry Anderson, published by Athabasca University in 2008, is available for download in its entirety or by chapter, as PDF. Chapters 2 and 4 are bookmarked in our collection.

By Howard Fogel and Linnea C. Ehri. Published in Contemporary Educational Psychology, vol 25 (2), April 2000, pp 212-235. Article is available for purchase or may be available through document delivery from your college's library.

By Chung, C.J. In Journal of Developmental Education; 28.3 (2005): 2-11. This was one of the pre-camp reading assignments, and is available on Polilogue. Article is available for purchase or may be available through document delivery in your college's library.

From the Learning Theories Knowledgebase at Learning-Theories.com, n.d. This page presents brief entries on Social Development Theory (Vygotsky) and Communities of Practice (Lave and Wenger), with links to further details for each.

Published by Center for Community College Student Engagement, 2010. This report looks at the Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE), launched fall 2006. From the report, "To date, more than 91,000 students from 197 colleges in 37 states have participated in SENSE, thereby helping to create a wealth of new and actionable data about the entering community college student experience."

By Klara Bolander Laksov, Sarah Mann, Lars Owe Dahlgren in Higher Education Research & Development, v 27 (2), June 2008, p 121-132. From the abstract, "this case study describes the process of a collaborative project aimed at increasing the educational quality at a research-intensive department...." Full-text is available for sale at this site. Check with your local library for access.

By Thomas A. Angelo, DePaul University - School for New Learning. "This paper synthesizes theories, findings, and strategies from a variety of literatures into seven transformative ideas which, taken together, have the potential to make our mental models of and approaches to faculty development more effective."

Shared by Y.H. in January coffeeklatch

By Michelle Pacansky-Brock on VoiceThread. Many comments support this VoiceThread presentation.

Lisa picked out two VoiceThread examples of how professors use this tool in their classes.

By Gail O. Mellow and Cynthia Heelan (2008). This page is the announcement of the book from LaGuardia Community College and the text/video of Dr. Mellow's lecture for the Robert H. Atwell lecture.

In addition to bookmarking the home page of this site (follow tag: wep), I have bookmarked the About page where James Gee welcomes users and explains his vision for worked examples.

Published by the University of Nottingham (UK). This site is a "continually updated collection of peer-reviewed academic development resources...[ranging from] "2-5 minute videos [to] 500-1000 word texts...." There are a variety of entry points to access the materials, ranging from discipline areas (on this page) to themes (see Teaching & Learning themes at the top). I also like the Guest editor block (this page, lower left), where a faculty member writes a brief editorial and selects resources of interest.

The mission of this organization is to improve community college effectiveness and student success by engaging in relevant and applicable research related to community college practice and policy.