http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Wed, 22 May 2013 04:28:38 PDT Wed, 22 May 2013 04:28:38 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=76942 NCTAF’s research and publications have positively impacted teaching quality in schools and districts across the country for almost 20 years. Our research has informed the growth of professional teaching standards, the birth of organizations that strengthen the teaching career from induction to mastery, and the national discussions about methods to encourage and develop teacher knowledge and skills. NCTAF’s first groundbreaking report, What Matters Most: Teaching for America’s Future (1996)(pdf), called for “competent, caring, qualified teaching in schools organized for success” and sparked a national dialogue about the importance of high quality teaching. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=78299 This is a research paper on self-adaptive software. It describes an infrastructure supporting two simultaneous process in self-adaptive software: system evolution, the consistent application of change over time, and system adaptation, the cycle of detecting changing circumstances and planning and deploying responsive modifications. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=433985 The Center for Teaching Excellence authored this white paper, Building from Content to Community: [Re]Thinking the Transition to Online Teaching and Learning, to serve as a resource for faculty who are teaching online or are considering making a transition. We hope this paper serves as the starting point for conversation and reflection as you begin this process yourself. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=731731 This is a journal article from Performance Improvement Quarterly that provides evidence of the reliability of using online assessments to determine a student's potential success in an online course. In addition to data that supports the use, an instrument is also provided. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=478248 Article about Barry Moser's trilogy of fairy tale picture books set in Appalachia: The Tinderbox, Polly Vaughn, and Tucker Pfeffercorn. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=683442 This article gives 7 good tips for developing mobile apps. (Aug. 7, 2012) http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=377010 Marie Sontag offers a new learning theory to shape K-12 teaching. Sontag's social and cognitive connectedness schema (SCCS) theory recognizes the changes in the way students obtain and integrate new information and offers a structure for instructional design that fosters learning by accessing students' strengths in these areas. "The cognitive-connectedness schema structures a student's ability and desire to know how what they are learning connects to a larger picture." NOTE: You will have to join Innovate to access the article, but it is free to join. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=409482 Well done article about the importance of communication in collaborative patient care. Presents the patient perspective of a 40 year old male diagnosed with advanced lung cancer and his expereince with various health caregivers from physicians to nurses. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=347478 Journal article on authentic assessment and facutly development http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=595632 If you have been diagnosed with a spinal fracture caused by osteoporosis, cancer or benign tumors, balloon kyphoplasty is a treatment option you may want to consider. Balloon kyphoplasty is a minimally invasive procedure that can significantly reduce back pain and repair the broken bone of a spinal fracture.