GlobalSkillsCC

In a CoP, teachers learn collaboratively rather than through isolated means

to transform existing teacher education programs' course contexts into communities of learners that link the learning of preservice teachers with the learning of experienced teachers and teacher educators

Published in ChemPaths, the Chemical Education Digital Library on Aug 11 2009. An overview of social bookmarking.

From Carnegie views: insights from educators, published by Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Treisman is a well-respected mathematics educator and, in this video, describes the work of Carnegie Foundation and others in working towards math success for all students.

Direct link to Pedagogy Matters Jam resources

Posted by Shannon Sweetser to Socrato Learning Analytics Blog, April 1 2011. A collection of "jaw dropping" examples of infographics, all of which apply to Education. See especially #9: US Education vs. The World: Education Spending (and performance) and #10 - 10 Shocking U.S. Education Statistics, which includes stats on high school dropouts, math anxiety, and how education impacts earning potential. Unfortunately, the graphics are not well cited (sources are not clearly indicated).

Performed by Taylor Mali at the Bowery Poetry Club on November 12, 2005. From OpenCulture, but originally posted to YouTube.

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.

by Ken Bains, published by Harvard University Press, 2004. From Booklist review, "With the strong conviction that good teaching can be learned, and after 15 years of observing teachers in action, Bain undertook an exploration of the essentials of effective teaching. The result is an insightful look at what makes a great teacher...."

From YouTube, an inspiring story of a service dog and the owner/trainer who was able to play to the dog's strengths.

Video used in a student exercise for a CAT in jam on Shreds of Data (R.O.).

Data on 2 year/4year/certificate attendees. Indictment of cc's for imitating 4 years and not emphasizing pedagogy/quality of sylibi

By Susan Imel, published in ERIC Digest No. 200, 1998. This paper traces the concept of "transformative learning" from its development by Mezirow in 1978 through Robert Boyd and other contemporary thinkers.

Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching. This resource hosts communities for members to contribute and share learning and teaching materials. The communities are categorized by higher education disciplines. In addition to contributing materials, members can comment about outside learning materials that are used, share information about themselves and knowledge about their discipline, put together personal collections to use in the classroom and become a Peer Reviewer of learning materials in member's discipline. In addition to discipline communities, there is the Community of MERLOT Partner Academic Support Services (COMPASS). This community is made up of ePortfolio, Faculty Development, Library and Information Services, Online Courses and Pedagogy. The ePortflio Portal centers educational resources around ePortfolio use in higher education, among students and faculty. Partner Communities like GLOBE extend the MERLOT network. The Global Learning Objects Brokered Exchange (GLOBE) alliance was established between ARIADNE Foundation in Europe, Education Services Austrailia, LORNET in Canada, National Institute of Multimedia Education (NIME) in Japan and MERLOT with the goal to "work collaboratively on a shared vision of ubiquitous access to quality educational content." The majority of MERLOT members are faculty/instructors and the balance are students, campus administrators, librarians and other members of higher education who are concerned with online learning materials, technology, teaching and learning, and innovation.

By Debra Ferreday; Vivien Hodgson; Chris Jones; published in Studies in Continuing Education, Vol 28 (3), November 2006, pp. 223-239. A case study of a networked management learning course in higher education, this paper looks at dialogue and identity.

By Heather Kanuka, chapter 4 of Theory and Practice of Online Learning, ed. Terry Anderson, published by Athabasca University, 2E, 2008. The author suggests that, before evaluating whether new e-learning technologies work, it is important to reflect upon philosophies of technology and education.

By Leila Christenbury (2006), Third Edition, Boynton-Cook/Heinemann, Portsmouth.

R.A. requested article from this book on Questioning Circles.

by Jon Marcus on The Hechinger Report, December 26, 2011. Open University, a successful British online public university to be used as a model in the U.S. The goal is to help students who are intimidated by higher education adapt to and succeed in college. Next Generation Learning Challenges, a Gates funded initiative, will adapt two free Open University, at-your-own-pace online courses for use at about a dozen U.S. colleges and universities this academic year: one to help students be more comfortable with math so they do better on placement tests or move more quickly through remedial courses, and another to teach students skills to prepare them for college.

By Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams in EDUCAUSE Review, vol 45, no. 1 (January/February 2010). Authors discuss how and why the university should embrace collaborative learning and collaborative knowledge production.

By Lisa Linn Kanae, Saneohe, HI: Tinfish, 2001(?)

This website,created by the Clinton RESA, Ingham ISD, Macomb ISD & Shiawassee RESD, offers 21 technology concepts (e.g. blogs, digital citizenship, online video resources) that teachers might want to incorporate into their classrooms. While the site is aimed at K-12 teachers, it is likely that teachers at all levels can find something worthwhile here. NOTE: the site was built in 2008; in the fast-moving 2.0 world, there might be tools that are since out of date.

Published by Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) in 1974, this document "includes the resolution on language adopted by members of CCCC in April 1974; the background statement explaining and supporting that resolution; and the bibliography that gives sources of some of the ideas presented in the background statement...."