GlobalSkillsCC

A national public policy initiative to improve developmental studies in postsecondary education.

on YouTube. A one minute animation about climate change and energy from WWF-Brazil.

Make your own cartoon movie with this online tool.

Create a new comic strip

Banta, T.W., Griffin, M., Flateby, T.L. & Kahn, S. (2009, December) Occassional Paper No. 2 by National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA)

Ewell, P. (2009, November) Occasional Paper 1 by National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA)

This is the companion site to Susan Anker's Real writing (4th Edition). The site contains student resources (exercises and advice) as well as resources for writing faculty.

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.

from Michelle Zollars

JEC uses this site as a tool for her students.

By Robin L. Simmons, the site includes terms, exercises, hand-outs etc., all about grammar.

Charles Leadbeater We Think video on YouTube. For more, click the leadbeater tag.

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.

By Diana D. Woolis and Gail O. Mellow. This page is the abstract for the book chapter on the Emerald website.

By Jane Magruder Watkins and Bernard J. Mohr. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer, 2001. GSCC utilizes an AI approach to working together. There is a new edition of this book being published next month. This link goes to the title on Worldcat where you can locate a copy in a library.

By Michael W. Galbraith, and Melanie Jones in Journal of Developmental Education; 30.2 (2006): 20-27. Author's abstract: This article suggests that a balance of the art and science of teaching is essential if the learning and teaching process is to be a meaningful and rewarding educational journey. This notion is explored through a dialogue, held over a 3 year period, with a developmental mathematics instructor at a community college who discovered that technique alone was not sufficient to becoming a good instructor. An unusual situation occurred as a result of the dialogue: Discussion of research-based literature on college teaching and personal experiential reflectivity merged and resulted in an organizing framework for understanding the artistic and mechanic elements of effective instruction. Full text by subscription. Check with your local library. This is a link to the TOC on the National Center for Developmental Education's website.

Eric Berlow on Ted (Talks in Less Than 6 Minutes series). Posted November, 2010.

By Carl J. Jung (2005) in Journal of Developmental Education; 28.3 (2005): 2-11. Author's Abstract: The guiding premise of this article is that developmental education and learning assistance programs will continue to be undervalued and vulnerable as long as there is no overarching, shared theoretical framework that practitioners can (and want to) call their own. The traditional approach to addressing this theory crisis has been to import theories from outside the field. This article presents an alternative approach. Advantages and benefits of a practice-oriented approach are identified and briefly discussed. Full text by subscription. Check with your local library. This is a link to the TOC on the National Center for Developmental Education's website.

By Jennifer Gonzalez in the Students section of the Chronicle of Higher Education, February 9 2011. Article announces the findings of a just-published early report, "Turning the Tide: Five Years of Achieving the Dream in Community Colleges," looking at five years of progress of the Achieving the Dream program in the 26 schools that joined in 2004. While the article cites that the changes are slow and small, there are bright spots, including the spread of a "culture of evidence" with more sophisticated data collection and analysis.

Help with technology

By Diana Laurillard, London Knowledge Lab, London Institute of Education, Inaugural professorial lecture, February 2008. From the abstract, Laurillard argues for "an education-driven approach to the use of digital technologies to achieve our ambitions for education."