Resources, projects and sites supporting innovative learning pedagogies National Survey of Student Engagement http://www.indiana.edu/%7Ensse/ Active/Collaborative Learning The Active Learning Site This site supports the scholarship of teaching by providing research-based resources designed to help faculty use active learning successfully in college and university classrooms. http://www.active-learning-site.com/ Collaborative Learning A comprehensive, well-indexed, site on collaborative small group learning. Includes links to useful resources, to guidelines and tips on "doing" collaborative learning and to case studies. http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/nise/cl1/CL/clhome.asp Computer-Based Collaborative Groupwork A project based at Sheffield University, UK, on online collaborative learning. http://collaborate.shef.ac.uk/ Collaborative Learning Enhances Critical Thinking An article from the Journal of Technology Education vol 7, no 1, Fall 1995 which reports on a study of the of individual learning versus collaborative learning in critical-thinking skills in an engineering subject at college level in the US. http://borg.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JTE/jte-v7n1/gokhale.jte-v7n1.html SOLAR SOLAR (Social & Organizational Learning and Re-animation) is an interdisciplinary centre for collaborative learning and participatory research based at University College Northampton, UK. http://www.northampton.ac.uk/solar/ Two Studies of Collaborative Learning The 1994 issue of the Journal of Excellence in College Teaching has two studies on collaborative learning; Encouraging Critical Thinking Using the Case Study Method and Cooperative Learning Techniques by Robert W. Grossman and The Effectiveness of Cooperative Learning Strategies in Multicultural University Classrooms by Pamela G. George. http://ject.lib.muohio.edu/sample/ Service Learning Corporation for National Service Site contains information on CNS's three main programs: Americorps, Learn and Serve America, and National Senior Service Corps. Contains information on grants and higher education programs. http://www.cns.gov/ Campus Compact Membership organization of college and university presidents committed to public and community service. Site contains resource materials, information regarding workshops and conferences, and state campus compacts. http://www.compact.org National Society for Experiential Learning Promotes experienced-based approaches to teaching and learning including service-learning. Contains publications, resources center, conference information, and membership materials. http://www.nsee.org/ Campus Outreach Opportunity League Details the programs and services of COOL - a non-profit organization that helps college students start, strengthen, and expand community service programs on their campuses. An extensive list of other service-learning links is also found here. http://www.cool2serve.org/ Council for Independent Colleges (CIC) Two separate CIC initiatives promote service-learning including publications and the Promoting School Success program. http://www.cic.edu/projects International Partnership for Service Learning Partnership programs that unite academic study and community service with an emphasis on international/intercultural service-learning. http://www.ipsl.org Western Region Campus Compact Consortium Site has an innovative search function that allows users to identify over 40 campus based service-learning programs in the Western Region. http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~wrccc/ Transforming Teaching through Technology NetLearn An excellent annotated directory of resources for learning about and using the Internet for teaching and learning, based at the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. http://www2.rgu.ac.uk/%7Esim/research/netlearn/callist.htm COSE (Creation of Study Environments) COSE is a project based at Staffordshire University which has developed an inexpensive and easy to maintain Virtual Learning Environment that supports a holistic approach to active and collaborative learning http://www.staffs.ac.uk/COSE/ STILE STILE (Students' and Teachers' Integrated Learning Environment) is a project based at Leicester University which was principally concerned with institutional culture change, but it also produced a set of simple tools for the use of University staff wishing to produce and integrate Web-based teaching materials. http://www.le.ac.uk/stile/ TILT (Teaching with Independent Learning Technologies) A project based at Glasgow University, with the aim "To show how teaching and learning can be made more productive and efficient throughout a single Higher Education Institution, by demonstrating how to use Information technology effectively in teaching methods, especially to support more independent learning." This site contains a range of useful project conclusions, case-studies and evaluations. http://www.elec.gla.ac.uk/TILT/TILT.html Towards Valid CSCL Tools From an Educationalist Perspective This is a JISC-funded project, based at Brighton University, whose aim is "to ensure that the future development of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) tools remains in keeping with the pedagogical aims of collaborative learning and the needs of participants in the learning process, whilst continuing to take advantage of the benefits to be had by employing modern and emerging technologies". http://www.bton.ac.uk/cscl/jtap/ Dynamic Syllabi A useful annotated list of links to a broad variety of course pages and syllabi - all devoted to some aspect of American culture - where the Web has been used to enhance course delivery. http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/webcourses.html Sites/Articles evaluating available software for collaborative online learning Reviews of online Educational Delivery Applications http://www.c2t2.ca/landonline/reviews.html Colleges Sort Through Vast Store of Tools for Designing Web Courses by Kelly McCollum. A short article from the Chronicle of Higher Education. http://chronicle.com/data/internet.dir/itdata/1997/10/t97102101.htm