Knowledge in the Public Interest (KPI)

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.

" Twitter Strategy Search ROI Policy Metrics Marketing Influence Google+ Facebook Events Trending: Pinterest Super Bowl Social Search SOPA Webinars Posted by: Tammy Kahn Fennell Posts About Comments Connect Follow: Twitter LinkedIn Facebook website The Next Big Thing? Social Lead Curation"

"The Next Wave of Social: Curated Integration"

Press release from The Century Foundation, Feb 2 2012. With President Obama's increasing emphasis on community colleges, "The Century Foundation is assembling a task force of distinguished individuals from two-year and four-year institutions, scholars of higher education, and representatives of the business, philanthropic, and civil rights communities to consider strategies to strengthen community colleges. "

"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"

"Developing high-quality content is still a problem. This is why I'm currently infatuated with the idea of content curation and the tools that enable it."

beta620: Experimental Projects from The New York Times. "The Recommendation Engine allows us to leverage the power of distributed computing to reference each user's personal browsing history, then leverage connection via our semantic tags...." Deep Dive offers the ability to dig deeper on a requested piece of content and bring connected items together.

Free ebook (PDF on Google docs) on Google's inroads in education. They offer scholarships, programs for students, domestic and international, and professional development and institutes for educators.

By Douglas Thomas and John Seeling Brown, Lexington, KY: CreateSpace. 2011. (Worldcat) Authors state a case for a new culture of learning that embraces technology.

By Jennifer Zaino on semanticweb.com, January 30, 2012. Education sector not mentioned in article but this tool could be applicable when looking at data sets of any unstructured data.

By Laura S. Quinn, Idealware, January 2012. Looks at a variety of software tools that can support program evaluation. Report includes a category on Analyzing and Displaying Your Measures, which might be most relevant. There are recommendations for report builders, tools that help create data visualizations, both quantitative and qualitative analysis tools, and dashboard recommendations.  Also reference to an organization called Innovation Network, which might be of interest.

By Noel Harmon, Ph.D. and published by IHEP (Institute for Higher Education Policy), this is the first publication in a new series Lumina MSI Models of Success. Per the abstract, it highlights MSI institutions that "enroll more than 2.3 millions students or close to 14 percent of all students...." The full document is available as PDF download from this age.

Information about the upcoming conference on networked learning in higher education and lifelong learning

Wiki of the P2P (peer to peer) foundation that studies "the impact of Peer to Peer technology and thought on society." Topics include collaboration, "open" business models, "change institutions," etc.  Librarian's note: found this site while trying to learn more about cybertroc (online barter)

By Colin Harrison in Education and the Knowledge Society: Information Technology Supporting Human Development by Tom J. van Weert, October 2004 (Springer, via Google Books).  Harrison's article is pp 244-246. He looks at how an online barter system (like his proposed Cybertroc) might facilitate ride-shares. One interesting idea is how this barter might help to build social capital in the area in which it is implemented and provides an interesting service to some who might otherwise be uninterested in "Information Society." Frustratingly, no details on the implementation of such an idea, other than to refer readers to a ride-share enacted during a 2003 French transportation strike.