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The National Education Research and Development Centers are funded through IES's NCER. The mission of the R&D Centers is to contribute to the production and dissemination of rigorous evidence and products that provide practical solutions to important education problems in the United States. The R&D Centers achieve this mission by developing, testing, and disseminating new approaches to improve teaching and learning, and ultimately, student achievement. Each of the Centers conducts a focused program of education research in its topic area. In addition, each Center works cooperatively with NCER, conducts supplemental research within its broad topic area, and provides national leadership in defining research and development directions within its topic area. Currently, there are 18 National R&D Centers.

A product of Texifter in conjunction with QDAP (see QDAP tag) this product is a predecessor of DiscoverText (also bookmarked). "This initial version of the system is specifically tailored to handle many forms of public comments submitted to US federal agencies during regulatory rulemaking and related public comment-generating activities."

Part of the MERLOT project, this site is a "digital case story repository that hosts more than 70 discipline-specific multimedia stories." The stories themselves are interesting. Also of note, the Creating Stories tab, for more on the production of such collaborative multimedia stories.

"What is LIVING LAB? LIVING LAB is a research and development infrastructure to research human interaction with, and stimulate the adoption of, sustainable, smart and healthy innovations around the home. Occupant interaction with the home can be studied in an adaptable and controllable home environment. This way the technical development, the implementation and the social uptake of sustainable innovations can be accelerated. LIVING LAB brings together Europe's top research institutes and companies and aims to stimulate cooperative projects in the fields of user centred research and product development."

"Curation Platforms are tools enabling you to select manually content online, to edit and share it. This comparison table is part of a French IT news article about Curation Tools: "Le Guide de la Curation". For more details about products and criteria, please read to the original article: http://pro.01net.com/editorial/529626/le-guide-de-la-curation-(3)-les-outils/ This comparison is associated to another one about the automatic publishing tools, that automatically select content : http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/outils-de-publication-automatique-md16pw3"

As of Sept 2012, this project page seems out of date (last updated June 2009); project may be completed. From the About Qualti page Mission Statement, "We begin from a position that methodology is a distinctive form of social practice and knowledge production, and that research methods must be considered with/in the social contexts in which they are practised."

Developed by Texifter, a company founded by Dr. Stuart Schulman of QDAP (see tag QDAP), this is a text analysis tool, with the capability of "reading" text from a variety of social media sources (as well as WordPress) and crowdsourcing the analysis over a peer group of the user's devising. This software has replaced PCAT (an earlier product).

This link points to Microsoft Education Newsroom Video Gallery. Once there, select Office Add-in for Moodle to learn more about this new product. Video posted April 6 2010.

With the tagline "search, recommend, collaborate, remix," Folksemantic claims over 110,000 OERs. The product was developed for the Center for Open and Sustainable Learning. At the current time (Sept 2010), they are asking for help evaluating their recommender tool.

A blog by the Chronicle of Higher Education that started in May 2010, Innovations brings together several regular bloggers on the topic of innovations. Bloggers include Sandy Baum (Skidmore College), Michael McPherson (Spencer Foundation), Marybeth Gasman (Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania), Richard Kahlenberg (Century Foundation), and Richard Vedder (Center for College Affordability and Productivity/Ohio University).

Website of the MIT Media Lab. From their Mission and History page, "Now, in its third decade, the Media Lab continues to check traditional disciplines at the door. Future-obsessed product designers, nanotechnologists, data-visualization experts, industry researchers, and pioneers of computer interfaces work side by side to tirelessly invent-and reinvent-how humans experience, and can be aided by, technology."

By Paul Signorelli in American Libraries, Feb 15 2011. Arguing that libraries should offer effective e-learning programs, despite the fact that "libraries are far behind other organizations...."

from the U.S. Department of Education. Plan calls for applying the advanced technologies used personally and professionally to the U.S.'s entire education system. The plan presents five goals with recommendations for states, districts, the federal government, and other stakeholders. Goals address the five essential components of learning powered by technology: Learning, Assessment, Teaching, Infrastructure and Productivity. This page has a link to the plan (PDF).

"By providing a space for campus clubs, groups, and organizations to interact online, colleges actually encourage community growth and participation. CampusCruiser can meet the needs of both traditional communities with virtual office space as well as web-born communities"

"Unlike most traditional academic conferences, sessions at an unconference don't consist of one or three or five people delivering papers to an audience. Instead, they might feature project demonstrations, discussions, creative work sessions, or other formats that build on the knowledge and expertise of whoever attends. For the Texas THATCamp (and I think this is fairly typical at others), participants posted session ideas beforehand on the website, followed by a 45-minute scheduling process as THATCamp began. Topic headings generated by those initial session ideas were posted on the walls of a large meeting room, and participants circulated through the space to meet up with others interested in similar topics. After some productive chaos (which admittedly tested my structure- and schedule-loving personality a bit) the group developed a schedule of sessions that represented not only a variety of interests but also the desire to cluster certain topics into tracks. Like any conference, I frequently wanted to be in two places at once - which I see as one marker of the event's success."

Blog by Josh Bernoff, December 11, 2007 on the POST method: A Systematic Approach to Social Strategy. POST stands for people, objectives, strategy, and technology, another way of organizing work instead of the 5 Ps (purpose, people, problem, product, and then process). Believe this is relevant to our course, too.

Posted in Wikipedia. Wikipedia describes sensemaking (also sense-making) as "the process by which people give meaning to experience."

SM - need to pursue add'l research on this topic

From their site, "VideoDiary™ Blog is a versatile, reliable consumer research tool" that might be used to create a "research blog community."

The software and linked methods allow the collection and tagging of multiple sense-making items. Items can be linked to traditional systems like content management.