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Recognizing the grave consequences for individual opportunity and more generally for our economy and society, the Carnegie Statway ™and Quantway ™Networked Improvement Communities have embraced an audacious goal-to increase from 5 percent to 50 percent the percentage of students who achieve college math credit within one year of continuous enrollment. As a result of the Carnegie Advancement for Teaching (CAT) work, my college will undergo a pilot program for Fall 2012 where I will be the instructor to achieve college math credit within one year on continuous enrollment. The Pathways Blog provides information about Carnegie's work to create pathways for student success in developmental education in community colleges and makes connections between Carnegie's work and that of others concerned with student struggle. Even though I follow the pathways blog, there are several more blogs from the foundation and are listed blow:

Found Tweetree here! Converts tweets to a discussion board-like format.

This article has some great suggestions for using Twitter with college students.

Using Twitter in the College Classroom

"Facebook pages for college classes? Students say yes, please"

Something I shared with my students...25 Apps You'll Need to Survive College

College students who frequently text message during class have difficulty staying attentive to classroom lectures and consequently risk having poor learning outcomes, new research shows. Because it is difficult to demonstrate that texting alone can have a direct impact on students' cognitive learning, researchers used path model analysis to describe the relationships between texting, as a "mediator" or intervening variable, and cognitive learning.

The clinic is organized and run by doctoral students of the physical therapy program at Lynchburg College who provide cutting-edge evidence-based therapy. We provide quality, free services under the supervision of licensed physical therapists from our faculty and the community to join in an educational partnership that benefits our patients.

Anything to make college life easier is a godsend for any student cramming for exams or preparing for life after graduation, so here is a list of ten websites that every college student should know, or at least be aware of.

Social media in the college classroom - article.

A new infographic from The Learning House offers insights into today's nontraditional student. Although online college enrollment continues to rise, some higher ed leaders still hold onto misconceptions about the types of students who pursue this alternative learning model.

You can lead a student to knowledge, according to an old academic saying, but you can't make him or her think. I recently wrote about the possibility of testing and certification for what I called a "college-level GED."

An article that shows how incorporating Twitter into the classroom can offer a new level of communication between students and their instructors, as well as their peers.

This article address some of the issues related to the use of social media in college.

great article for students and teachers

Project Spotlight Terry Austin, an instructor of anatomy and physiology at Temple College in Texas, has boosted student retention rates in his classes - and he attributes part of that success to the real-time feedback system he's using in his flipped classroom.

Another list, but this is for the college classroom

Thought some of you may be interested in Fanshawe College's (London, ON Canada) Accessibility Toolkit.

It took me about an hour to find this podcast. I wanted a podcast that addressed topics that are could be understood by a student in a college level math class. These short podcast give a step by step solution for various algebra problems and could be used as a supplemental way of explaining a particular problem. I would use these podcast if there were a few more examples for each topic. For instance, I would like at least 3 podcast for the common denominator problem. I would probably use the podcast as a section review or with a worksheet that had similar examples.

Here is a link to some useful tips that Fanshawe College provides for the professors.