From March 27th to March 29th, 2009 - the education community of Second Life will be hosting a 3 day conference on best practices in education. This conference will promote the best and brightest from the Second Life education community in various fields of practice including everything from demonstrations to hands on theory.
The Center awards approximately 20-25 residential fellowships annually to individuals with outstanding project proposals in a broad range of the social sciences and humanities on national and/or international issues. Topics and scholarship should relate to key public policy challenges or provide the historical and/or cultural framework to illuminate policy issues of contemporary importance.
Feb. 4, 2009: Today NSDC releases Professional Learning in the Learning Profession: A Status Report on Teacher Development in the United States and Abroad. This also marks the launch of a multi-year research effort to measure the effectiveness of professional learning at the state leve