GlobalSkillsCC

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.

Biography of Lee S. Shulman, President Emeritus of The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, served as president from 1997- 2008.

By David Leonhardt, New York Times, The Way We Live Now column, May 3, 2010. The search for solutions to increase college completion. The author of this article takes the perspective of economic downturns, when there is a greater incentive for students to stay in school, or to return.

This special issue of the London Review of Education, 8 (1) 2010, looks at virtual learning. Co-editors are Gwyneth Hughes and Martin Oliver (affiliated with London Knowledge Lab). Full text articles are available for purchase from this page (publisher site). Check with your local library for full text articles.

eduTecher is a great place to look at new educational technologies, or to find just the right technology to do a job (e.g. document collaboration or word clouds). Each tool is reviewed by the staff, and users can search the database various ways. While many tools have a K-12 focus, there are plenty that would be useful in postsecondary education as well.

This page links to a gallery of student ePortfolios at LaGuardia Community College. In left-hand navigation, you can select ePortfolios at varying levels.

on eInstrtuction.com site. Classroom Performance System (CPS) is a student response system in the form of response pads or "clickers." These are small, handheld devices that allow students to respond to questions and enables educator to instantly assess lesson comprehension

Video example of "clicker" use in classroom setting. On McGill University's Faculty of Science website.

By Diane Ravitch, New York: Basic Books, 2010.

Open Wonderland bills itself as an "open source toolkit for creating collaborative 3D virtual worlds."

Authoring Tool to create e-learning exercises.

Developmental Education - Beyond Remediation through Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction. "The purpose of the Summer Institute is to give those who work with developmental students the theory and practical applications to improve the success, retention, and persistence rates of their students."

on teAchnology.com

This student resource provides professional tutoring in the subject areas of English grammar and writing, reading text marking and note taking strategies, and basic math.

A video sharing community for K-12 teachers.

by Lee S. Shulman, in Liberal Education, Spring 2005. Shulman writes on behalf of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and their research on how professionals are educated. The idea is to use this study to better inform liberal education pedagogies.

JEC uses this article as an illustration of Shulman's idea of "signature pedagogies."

From C-SPAN, March 30, 2010. Speech was given at the Alexandria, VA., campus of Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC). The President is introduced by Dr. Jill Biden, wife of the Vice-President, and an instructor at NVCC. The President announced that Dr. Biden will host a national summit on community colleges at the White House this fall (see approx 18:10 on the video).

A GSCC connection - NH (GSCC instructor) also teaches at NVCC and was present for the visit. From her comments: "Jill Biden introduced him and some of her developmental English students were sitting behind me. When the President explained the changes in Pell Grants, they stood and shouted "Thank You." I was really moved because I am sure these grants will make a big difference for them in the future."

Collaborative tool for instructors and students to interact in real time to add synchronous content to asynchronous distance learning.

Learning Skills Publications, LLC. Test to measure test anxiety.

ANGEL Learning Management System - merged with Blackboard