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By Darren Kuropatwa on his blog, A Difference, July 29 2011. In this post, Kuropatwa shares three presntations he gave at the 2011 Building Learning Communities conference. His presentations are rich (many of the individual slides have clickable links), but of course much is lost without his voice. There is a note that videos of the presentations will be included when they are available.

18 Rules of Community Engagement: A Guide for Building Relationships and Connecting With Customers Online [Paperback]

By Christian Kohls (Knowledge Media Research Center, Germany); Joachim Wedeknd (Knowledge Media Research Center, Germany), Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference. 2011. Design patterns have become popular in the domains of architecture, software design, human computer interaction, Web 2.0, organizational structures, and pedagogy as a way to communicate practical knowledge. Patterns capture proven solutions for recurrent problems with respect to fitting context. This publication addresses both e-learning practitioners and researchers, using an accessible language to communicate sophisticated knowledge and important research methods and results.

pictures instead of words for explaining community management, a 7-slide show by Amber Naslund

Blog post about her company/community, Powerful Learning Practice, on the blog Connected Educators, posted Dec 18 2011. Nussbaum-Beach founded Powerful Learning Practice, with creates virtual CoPs, primarily with K-12 educators. Their model is to collect teams from several schools to work together in a larger CoP. In the first year, participants share in an action research project; if they chose to continue for a second year, they "collaboratively create" a classroom unit.

Many of the ideas here -- specifically those around engagement and various assessments/measures of success -- seem akin to KPI's own findings. Interesting project and interview.

Created by the Advocacy & Policy Center of the CollegeBoard and published in 2012. From About the Arch, "The Completion Arch is a web based tool that provides quick and easy access to national, state and initiative-level data that describe the progress and success of community college students." Click "Explore the Arch" for an overview and to get started.

Resources for "makers," DIY folks who innovate, create and share projects & ideas. These resources include a subscription based magazine, a blog, videos & podcasts, shared project ideas, a forum/community and a store. Additionally, Maker Faire is an annual conference for the Make audience. Make Magazine, published quarterly by O'Reilly is a hybrid magazine/book "(known as a mook in Japan)".

Innovation Communities Teamworking of Key Persons - A Success Factor in Radical Innovation, Klaus Fichter and Severin Beucker (Eds.). Berlin: New York: Springer, 2012

Posted by Clay Johnson, 10/25/2011 on ExpertLabs In the context of experts' conversations with government, the author of this post argues that tools such as IdeaScale, Google Moderator and UserVoice are useful for brainstorming but not the best method for a true dialog. These tools give government an excuse to "not" participate with people where they are. The comments on a government site, i.e. the dialogue on evolving data.gov (via IdeaScale) shouldn't replace "participating with practicitioners," which should happen where they are. (i.e. in a Jam, I.F.) Expert Labs aims to get more people involved in order to make policy better. Expert Labs publishes reports, constantly updates their blog and has developed a tool, ThinkUp, that enables users to automatically archive data and communications across Facebook, Twitter and Google+, encouraging engagement on these networks.

By Judi Fusco, Sarah Haavind, Julie Remold & Patricia Schank in Educational Media International vol 48 (3), 2011. A look at the results of 4 professional development seminars, using community of inquiry model. This is the abstract only. For full article, check with your library.

This center, based at the University of Texas at Austin, is looking at the relative success of various intervention/engagement/support methods at community colleges. Follow CCCSE tag for more about this project.

Published by the Center for Community College Student Engagement (CCCSE), 2012. This is the first of three annual reports to look at "strategies that appear to be associated with a variety of indicators of student progress and success." For more on this project, follow the tag CCCSE.

From About page, "EdTechTalk is a community of educators interested in discussing and learning about the uses of educational technology. We webcast several live shows each week." Webcast categories include 21st Century Learning, EdTech Weekly, EdTechTalk, and many others.

By Caralee Adams in the College Bound section of Education Week, October 5 2010. Adams reports on the White House Summit on Community Colleges, held on October 5.

By Tamar Lewin, New York Times, June 23 2010. While interest in community colleges is on the rise, budget cuts are drastically decreasing access to students, and decreasing the course offerings. It is actually taking students longer to graduate, as they are denied courses that they need for graduation.

By Jennifer Brooks, The Tennessean, July 2 2010. Tennessee is looking at revamping their remedial education with hybrid and online classes in community colleges. In four-year colleges, remedial needs are often addressed with extra work/extra time in the regular classroom.

Posted on Ideascale, users can submit their "thoughts, questions, and challenges" for the White House Summit on Community College, to be held October 5 2010.

A series of online forums sponsored by UNESCO to look at issues surrounding OER, particularly re-use of OER materials. Scheduled themes of discussions are: 23 - 29 September 2010: Taking OER beyond the OER Community: Policy and Capacity; 20 - 26 October 2010: What works, what does not and under what conditions?; 10 - 16 November 2010: Copyright and the development and re-use of OER. This page contains other background information, including links to the online forums.