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Unsigned article describing cooperative learning. Includes references and links. From the Education Technology Training Center at Kennesaw State University. A "teaching strategy in which small teams, each with students of different levels of ability, use a variety of learning activities to improve their understanding of a subject."

By Chris Riedel, in THE Journal, Jan 22 2010. Specific tools are mentioned, including GSCC favorites like Jing and Prezi.

This is the blog of Gráinne Conole, professor of e-learning in the Institute of Educational Technology at the Open University. Conole writes about a variety of e-learning projects that she is working on, as well as reporting on conferences that she attends.

Humanities, Arts, Sciences, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC). This page highlights the Digital Media & Learning Competition. Winners are making a difference in 21st century learning.

Produced by the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment, Division of Information Technology at LaGuardia Community College, part of The City University of new York. September 2010. Includes profiles of the student body (general and entering students), enrollment profile, and demographics about degrees earned.

Professor of Educational Technology and Design at the University of Saskatchewan. Schwier does a lot of work on virtual learning communities (vlc).

By Debbie Garber, The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, vol 5 (2), August 2004. This paper goes beyond technology to look at "the social process on which an online learning community if it is to flourish and be useful." Also stresses "importance of nurturing the community's health, and the natural life cycle of a virtual community...."

Presented by Innovation in Teaching and Leaning for Technological Innovation at Nashville State Community College. The premise of this project is that a course is linked with a local business and the students work directly with business partners to solve "real-world problems." The site offers background on problem-based and case-based learning, as well as tools to help an instructor connect with a business and frame his/her course.

By George Lorenzo, 2011. A renewed interest in community colleges is resulting in looking at driving factors for the future success. This report looks at the potential solutions proposed in papers that came out of The White House Summit on Community Colleges held on October 5, 2010. These include industry partnerships, providing a more well-rounded education with career training, better support services at community colleges,etc. Lorenzo mentions The Learn and Earn initiative, technology with online and hybrid courses, open education resources and other ways to engage students. He looks at college readiness and what Complete College America, a new nonprofit organization, advises as ways to address this shortcoming.

Links on this page for the Proceedings, abstracts, and conference guide.

Edited by Dan Cohen and Tom Scheinfeldt, MPublishing, 2011. (Print edition forthcoming) This site is an open-access version of a volume of over 300 responses to questions posed by the editors in their social networks. Contributors were allowing only one week to respond. The approach, encouraging interactivity as well as a time limit, and the questions intended to provoke thinking on how digital media and technology can beneficially reform the academy. The editors convincingly state a good case for their choice of the word "hack."

By the SOURCE on Community College Issues, Trends & Strategies, May 2011. For this report, the SOURCE's editor-in-chief interviewed eleven community college leaders from across the country. Questions relate to: college readiness, remedial education, workforce development, educational technologies, student services, data analysis, funding/grants

By Jeffrey R. Young in the Technology column, The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 10 2011. This article looks at a handful of schools that are using recommender systems to guide students' course selection.

Mobi View is an interactive whiteboard developed by eInstruction.

LS uses this tool in her classroom, as mentioned in week 8, semester 3.

This paper sets out to demonstrate that creativity can be fostered in learners through use of such Web 2.0 technologies, and in particular, through tagging and its social form, folksonomy.

By Andy Lapham, Faculty of the Arts, Thames Valley University, London, UK. This paper from the Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on e-Learning includes a literature review and presents a cognitive analysis of tagging.

Conrad Wolfram presentation on TED.com (filmed July 2010; posted Nov 2010). Wolfram argues that math applications are all around us, and that people in a ever-wider variety of workplaces are excited about math...but students are not. Wolfram argues that bringing computers into the math classroom would help improve math's relevancy -- and build excitement as well. Use the tag wolfram to look at his "knowledge engine," Wolfram Alpha.

Brains are being rewired from focused attention to flashing from one thing to another because of the digital devices now ubiquitous in the culture. This article asks what it means for learning and education.

"A nonprofit organization that increases sharing and improves collaboration." Creative Commons recommended license is one of the standards for content that is freely shared online. The idea of open educational content has implications for teachers, students, publishers, colleges/universities, etc.

Google offers a collaborative writing tool (similar to MS Word), with JEC uses with her writing students in order to manage the draft-edit-revision process.