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HHMI Bulletin Aug 2011	Michelle Withers: Extolling the Teacher-Scientist I create learning activities so students come up with their own answers. I need to figure out what questions will get them there. How can I guide them to figure it out?
HBS Working Knowledge May 21, 2014 Michael Blanding	CORe: HBS Powers Up Online Program on Business Fundamentals Harvard Business School's new online primer on the fundamentals of business aims to translate some of the School's unique classroom teaching methods to the Web.
T.H.E. Journal September 9, 2009 Dian Schaffhauser	Which Came First - The Technology or the Pedagogy? A new spin on an old riddle goes to the heart of a conflict between K-12 schools and the colleges of education responsible for cultivating and providing them with new teachers.
HBS Working Knowledge June 25, 2014 Michael Blanding	FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing Forget what you remember about school field trips. Harvard Business School is in its fourth year of a bold innovation that ships all first-year students on global excursions.
T.H.E. Journal July 27, 2010	A Tool for Its Time A new functionality has so transformed learning management systems that their manufacturers prefer the term digital learning platform, to better reflect their products' capacity to do a great deal more than manage a classroom.
Information Today November 5, 2015	McGraw-Hill Education Studies Students and Technology Students see greater potential for technology in college than is currently being used.
HHMI Bulletin May 2011 Cathy Shufro	Richard Losick: Extolling the Teacher-Scientist Universities should encourage creative teaching, says Losick, just as they reward outstanding research.
T.H.E. Journal September 2, 2009 Ruth Reynard	5 Ways We're Diminishing Learning by Assuming Face-to-Face Instruction Is Best Face-to-face instruction is often assumed to be the proven method, while other methods have yet to prove themselves. This assumption is not only misleading, but it might also be helping to diminish potential opportunities of better learning for our students.
Chemistry World May 21, 2014 Rebecca Trager	To lecture or not to lecture? A meta analysis has shown that there are better ways to teach science to college students than lectures.
Information Today August 23, 2010	Cengage Learning Enhances CengageBrain.com The website, which allows students to purchase or rent textbooks, ebooks, or individual echapters and download study tools, features a more intuitive interface for students
T.H.E. Journal October 1, 2010 Jennifer Demski	How Music Teachers Got Their Groove Back Music Instruction Goes Digital Carol Broos is on a mission. She is determined to appeal to the estimated 80 percent of students who do not enroll in traditional school music programs -- band, orchestra, and choir.
HHMI Bulletin May 2012 Erin Peterson	Making Bigger Better University of Texas at Austin Freshman Research Initiative student Holli Duhon describes her research.
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Katharine Gammon	Room to Grow -- and Learn For undergraduates who have the opportunity to do high-level research, the experience can be unforgettable.
T.H.E. Journal January 2002 Lawrence E. Levine	Using Technology to Enhance the Classroom Environment Much is being written about the use of technology as a teaching and learning tool. However, much of the focus is on distance learning. This article deals with another aspect of this topic, namely, the use of technology to enhance teaching and learning in a classroom environment...
HBS Working Knowledge June 16, 2014 Michael Blanding	The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology With 50 million public school students in America, technology holds much potential to transform schools, says John Jong-Hyun Kim. So why isn't it happening?
T.H.E. Journal November 1, 2010	2020 Vision: Experts Forecast What the Digital Revolution Will Bring Next A discussion about how far we've come in education technology, and where we can expect to go.
T.H.E. Journal October 2002 Brawner et al.	Partnerships Increase Access to Engineering Education: North Carolina's Two+Two Experience There are a number of benefits to this distance education model as it currently exists. Foremost, people from around the state are provided with increased access to engineering education.
HHMI Bulletin February 2012 Cori Vanchieri.	Susan Singer: A Magical Moment The time to entice students to be STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) teachers is during the first years of college, says Susan Singer, a professor of natural sciences at Carleton College.
Information Today March 14, 2011 Paula J. Hane	Cengage Learning Introduces New `MindTap' Personal Learning Experience MindTap is a new personalized program of digital products and services that engages students with interactivity while also offering students and instructors choice in content, platform, devices, and learning tools.
T.H.E. Journal October 1, 2009	Drill Down Administrators report on the obstacles they encounter in the effort to provide students with take-home technologies.
T.H.E. Journal July 15, 2009 Ruth Reynard	Beyond Social Networking: Building Toward Learning Communities Social networking is only the beginning of a longer and more complex process of socially constructed learning and ultimately collaboration and knowledge building.
T.H.E. Journal November 2, 2009 David Nagel	Are Schools Preparing Students for 21st Century Learning? While more than half of America's school principal's say they are doing a good job preparing students for the 21st century, only a third of parents of middle school and high school students agree.
CRM February 2012 Leonard Klie	IVR Identifies At-Risk Students Vocantas IVR helps Avila University reach out to students in danger of transferring or dropping out.
T.H.E. Journal February 2009	Student Attitudes: Online Learning Students participating in a survey reveal their opinions about online learning courses.
T.H.E. Journal November 9, 2009 Sara Stroud	A New Way Forward Tech-based solutions, such as tools for teaching kids how to recognize facial expressions, are giving educators a means of helping autistic students acquire basic life skills.
T.H.E. Journal October 21, 2009 Ruth Reynard	Bridging the Gap Between Online and On-ground Teaching Increasing numbers of studies are being done that seem to support the notion that blended course delivery or program delivery really captures the best of every possible world and, as such, is an effective way of learning for students.
Information Today October 25, 2010	Cengage Learning Releases CourseReader Cengage Learning has introduced CourseReader, a customized, digital collection of content assets for the classroom, further strengthening its CengageCourse suite of digital learning products and services.
T.H.E. Journal September 1, 2010 Jennifer Demski	They're Taking Requests: Student Techs Command the Help Desk Varun Kumar, the technology coordinator at William Cullen Bryant High School in Queens, NY, has it good. His workforce consists of Bryant High students, members of the Mouse Squad, a student-based IT support program.
T.H.E. Journal December 2, 2009 Bridget McCrea	Setting the Stage for Distance Learning Distance learning capabilities are made possible by Afton, TN-based Chuckey-Doak High School's new video collaboration system and the school's newly formed partnerships with other Northeast Tennessee districts.
T.H.E. Journal February 2003 Ron Reed	Streaming Technology Improves Student Achievement Study shows the use of standards-based video content, powered by a new Internet technology application, increases student achievement.
T.H.E. Journal October 25, 2007 Ferdig & Boyer	Can Game Development Impact Academic Achievement? Having students develop games has shown tremendous promise for motivating students, building conceptual knowledge, and improving content knowledge acquisition.
T.H.E. Journal February 2009 Charlene O'Hanlon	Credit Recovery Software: the New Summer School Districts are using online programs to get at-risk students back on track to graduation.
T.H.E. Journal October 1, 2009 Dian Schaffhauser	Boundless Opportunity National borders are no match for the reach of online technologies, as demonstrated by a host of collaborative projects that use web-based platforms to link US students with their peers abroad.
T.H.E. Journal March 18, 2009 Ruth Reynard	The Suitability of Technology-based Education for Skills Development Skill development now refers not only to specific technical skills for specific vocations but to the development of workplace skills (or competencies) and personal development skills as well.
T.H.E. Journal October 7, 2009 Ruth Reynard	More Challenges with Wikis: 4 Ways To Move Students from Passive to Active Wikis are truly powerful tools to support collaboration. However, teachers are the central engager and the one who keeps the process moving forward.
BusinessWeek July 15, 2010	How a Teacher Gets Graded--and Paid Does spelling count? What goes into calculating a teacher's paycheck.
T.H.E. Journal March 17, 2010 Ruth Reynard	Real-Time Technology in Middle School Language Instruction Recently, I interviewed a German language middle school teacher and she shared with me her uses for Web 2.0 tools in foreign language instruction.
Information Today February 19, 2015 Woody Evans	Google for Education Is Giving Away the Classroom Google for Education can no longer brush off its parallels to other big, for-profit LMSs as "just some apps to help students." We're well beyond Google Docs and Hangouts now.
T.H.E. Journal January 28, 2010 Scott Aronowitz	Wisconsin District To Launch Online School Howard-Suamico School District of Green Bay, WI, has announced it will partner with Kaplan Virtual Education to launch Bay Port iAcademy to provide full- and part-time online education opportunities to middle school and high school students throughout the state.
T.H.E. Journal May 14, 2009 Ruth Reynard	Technology's Impact on Learning Outcomes: Can It Be Measured? The ongoing debate on the effectiveness of technology use for student learning outcomes still seems to have no clear answers.
T.H.E. Journal May 2009 Rama Ramaswami	Even! But No Longer Odd Once regarded as an unconventional alternative for atypical students, virtual schools have achieved mainstream acceptance, and are now seen as providing an education equal to - if not better than - what their traditional counterpart offers.
HHMI Bulletin February 2011	Louisa Stark: The Internet Age To engage children and teenagers in science, it helps to entertain. Louisa Stark, director of the Genetic Science Learning Center at the University of Utah, uses tools that students have already mastered, such as the internet.
T.H.E. Journal June 2009 Lorna Collier	Inspiration Information A free digital resource brings students up close with leading professionals across a variety of fields to help them see the real-world relevance of their studies.
Fast Company November 2010 Stephanie Schomer	Chegg: Saving College Kids Money Through Textbook Rental Aayush Phumbhra is reforming the dysfunctional world of college textbooks by renting them to students nationwide.
T.H.E. Journal September 9, 2009 Jennifer Demski	Learning to Speak Math The presence of a bilingual educator is proving pivotal to the success of technology initiatives aimed at developing Spanish-speaking students' grasp of both the concepts and the language of mathematics.
Financial Planning November 1, 2011 Danielle Reed	Financial Planning Education 101: 10 Standout Schools A closer look at ten notable schools for with financial planning programs.
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2010 Markey et al.	The Benefits of Integrating an Information Literacy Skills Game into Academic Coursework: A Preliminary Evaluation BiblioBouts seeks to satisfy student requests for a gaming experience directly integrated into their current coursework.
T.H.E. Journal February 11, 2010 Bridget McCrea	Overcoming the Learning Curve Teacher Tim Zavacki integrates technology into the curriculum by having students create photo essays that correspond with one or more of the five themes that Zavacki teaches in his semester-long course.