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Igniting Innovation in Education through Collaboration - 0 views

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    By Betty Ray, on Edutopia, July 8 2010. This is a post by guest blogger Rob Jacobs, a recent participant in twitter group #edchat's topic, "What actions are needed to move the education reform movement from conversation to action." This guest post is on the same topic. Not only is this an interesting post, but #edchat sounds like a great twitter to follow.
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Revolutionizing Education through Innovation: Can Openness Transform Teaching and Learn... - 0 views

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    By Catherine M. Casserly and Marshall S. Smith. This is a free pdf download of a chapter from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching publication, Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content and Open Knowledge.
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Phoenix Economy: 50 Pioneers in the Business of Social Innovation - 0 views

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    Published by Volans Ventures Ltd., 2009. This report looks at "five key trends that are driving change-and 50 organizations that are spearheading that change." The report is available via slideshare on this page. There is also a link to the pdf.
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International Handbook on Innovation, The - 0 views

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    Edited By Larisa Shavinina, Universite du Quebec, Canada. Book description on publisher's website.\nOn Worldcat - http://bit.ly/a2Ro6m
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Learncom: Pedagogical innovations in new ICT-facilitated learning communities - 0 views

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    This project ran for 12 months, beginning in June 2008. It was part of the Information Society Policy Research Unit of the European Commission Joint Research Centre.
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Gates Gets Firsthand Look at an Innovative Math Course - 0 views

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    By CC (Community College) Times, published April 21 2010. This article reports on Bill Gates's visit to Foothill College to observe the Math My Way program. From the article, "Math My Way groups cohorts of students who have similar math skill levels." Students then work in small groups, and one-on-one with instructors, as well as using both computer and paper drills and games.
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New Community College Standards Could Hike Graduation Rates - 0 views

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    On PBS NewsHour, April 20, 2010. Jeffrey Brown interview with Mary Spilde and Hilary Pennington about the increased focus on boosting graduation rates in community colleges. Remedial education, innovative technology models and standards for accountabililty are topics covered.
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MERLOT - 0 views

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    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.
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JISC e-learning program - 0 views

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    JISC is a UK-based group that "inspires UK colleges and universities in the innovative use of digital technologies...." The e-learning program offers 5 tracks to will help teachers learn how to teach in the e-learning environment. Support includes OER.
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Pfizer Expands R&D Network - 1 views

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    By Rick Mullin on Chemical & Engineering News, June 13, 2011. Pfizer announced the third in its network of research partnerships with medical and academic institutions in and around Boston. The new partnership will join other hubs in Pfizer's Centers for Therapeutic Innovation (CTI) which launched last year. "Pfizer's partnership network is growing as the company cuts billions of dollars from its traditional research base"
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The MOOC Guide: The Massive Open Online Course in Theory and in Practice - 0 views

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    Posted by Stephen Downes, 2001, this guide is written as a Wiki, with an invitation for users to participate, adding their own experiences. The chapters are roughly chronological, with each describing a MOOC, it's learning goals, and any innovations that it included. This guide can be helpful in understanding the concept of MOOCs, and also in planning a MOOC of one's own.
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Public Agenda (organization) - 0 views

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    From their "What is Public Agenda" page, "Public Agenda, an innovative public opinion research and public engagement organization, works to strengthen our democracy's capacity to tackle tough public policy issues." For more, follow tag "public_agenda"
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Developmental evaluation : applying complexity concepts to enhance innovation and use - 1 views

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    By Michael Quinn Patton, published by Guilford Press 2011. For more, see tags patton or evaluation
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College Completion Matters (organization) - 0 views

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    From the home page, "Welcome to the knowledge and learning community committed to college completion, where you can share and collaborate across stakeholders, learn about innovative projects, and read current college completion news."
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Companies Erect In-House Social Networks - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Title: Companies are Erecting In-House Social Networks, June 26, 2011, This article intrigued me from the get-go because: 1) it speaks to the desire for people to be connected socially in their work; 2) it provides forums (opportunities) for the distantly-connected worker(s)/network member(s) to 'trickle-up' by sharing innovative practice/ideas; 3) it resembles Facebook for its ease of participation and entry level; 4) it creates a social network, which is the beginning of conversation, which is the beginning of collaboration, no? :-) We know that high school students LOVE the SLI because it gives them the opportunity to meet and greet and sometimes talk about meaningful social justice issues. But the hook is social, then learning. We have been talking about trying Facebook this year to ease the way in for up to 200 kids, but many school districts do not allow students to access Facebook from school computers. Maybe we need to explore Yammer or Chatter or look to see if there is a comparable open source app?
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Education to Employment Report - 0 views

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    Produced by McKinsey & Company, McKinsey on Society division, December 2012. McKinsey & Company notes that, in many countries, we are faced with "high levels of youth unemployment and a shortage of job seekers with critical skills." In this report, they have compiled case studies of best practices from around the world (with the goal of high employment of program graduates) as well as surveying students about their own prospects based on their education. On this page, links to the report itself (as well as Executive Summary) as well as access to some of the case studies.
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    If the goal of postsecondary education is employment, this report starts to posit some innovations and solutions.
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Education to employment - 0 views

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    This short video produced by McKinsey & Company, Jan 2013, broadly discusses their worldwide survey into the issue of education to employment. Some success stories are highlighted. Calls for widespread, large scale collaborations between employers, educators, students and parents.
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Researchers Without Borders - 0 views

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    Based at the Center for Elementary Mathematics and Science Education at the University of Chicago, "RWB is a home for open research in education." The project promotes collaborative research, inviting participants to join one or more communities and to participate in events like online webinars. The Resources database appears to be expansive and allows users to rate the resources that they use.
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