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This article in the Aug 8 Chronicle of Higher Ed makes the bold proposal that "we need something grander and more comprehensive, something that will lead to a conceptual sea change in the way the nation understands and deals with the issue of academic underpreparation. "I propose that a wealthy foundation or consortium of foundations support with great fanfare a National Center for the Study and Teaching of Basic Skills. Such a center would have a long-term effect on education, social justice, and economic prosperity." Rose continues, something like the Smithsonian Institution or a National Endowment for Basic Studies.

Quest2Learn, a project of the Institute of Play, is a 6th-12th grade school designed around games and learning.

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K.P. showed this video and gave links to others in lesson 8, Semester 2

Saxon, D. P., Levine-Brown, P., & Boylan, H. R., from Research in Developmental Education, 2008 .

By Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman, published in Newsweek, July 10 2010. This article argues that American kids' creativity has been declining since 1990, in part because of the current state of education. In other parts of the world, there is a real emphasis on nurturing creativity in the schools.

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 allowed 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." (originally bookmarked September 9, 2011. The previous link is no longer active.)

Blog of the CUNY Games Network, which promotes games-based learning in the college classroom.

The State of Texas Academic Resource Link (STARLink) network provides over 150 hours of professional development programming annually to member colleges and universities. STARLink is an Agency of the Texas Association of Community Colleges

A webinar about Learning Outcomes, "Developing and Assessing Course Learning Objectives," was recommended by R.O. in December.

By Jennifer Gonzalez, Students section, The Chronicle of Higher Education, February2 2012. The new project is being led by the Center for Community College Student Engagement and will analyze data from four different surveys: Community College Survey of Student Engagement, the Survey of Entering Student Engagement, the Community College Faculty Survey of Student Engagement, and the newly created Community College Institutional Survey. Reports will be produced annually for the next three years. See CCCSE tag for first year's report.

Wellman, J.V. (2010, January) Occasional Paper No. 3 by National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA)

Mashable.com is a very popular site for learning more about important social media tools, with information on trends, lists (e.g. 11 Essential Social Media Resources You Might Have Missed), and how-tos, included guides to Twitter and Facebook.

Lumina Foundation Focus, Winter 2011. This issue concentrates on learning: what are students learning, what should they be learning, what knowledge skills and other competencies must they have to thrive? Marisa Klages discusses the role of e-Portfolios.

G.M. posted the link to this publication in March coffee klatch

By Hunter Boylan, published as Working Paper 8 for the Council for Advancement of Adult Literacy, December 2004. With a national scope, the paper examines the relationship between developmental and adult education in community college settings, the nature of collaboration between the two programs, and the characteristics that foster collaboration.

A program of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Statway focuses on helping community college students learn basic skills in statistics, data analysis, and quantitative reasoning as part of a one-year pathway. The ultimate goal of this pathway is preparation for college-level statistics. This home page to Statway also includes links to the project blog (called Pathways Connection) and to the project's mailing list. There are 19 community colleges affiliated with this project.

Online tutoring and writing services.

"The New Media Consortium (NMC) is a community of hundreds of leading universities, colleges, museums, and research centers. The NMC stimulates and furthers the exploration and use of new media and technologies for learning and creative expression."

Overview of the study being conducted by the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Teachers College, Columbia University. This study will look at seven specific research strategies within four different community college systems (in four different states). This page includes links to past and future presentations being given on this project.

CCRC brief #40, published by Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Teachers College, Columbia University, Feb 2009. The brief, based on a longer paper, finds that developmental education is not particularly effective, and recommends for broad reforms better assessment, tracking students through early college years, and blurring the line between "developmental" and "college-level" students. The full paper is available as a PDF from this page.

Overview of the study being conducted by the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Teachers College, Columbia University. "In this study, CCRC will conduct multivariate analyses of the effects of participating in ALP on student pass rates in English 101 as well as on other measures, including rates of persistence and passing college-level courses in subjects other than English."