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Center for Problem-Based Learning
The Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy's Center for Problem-Based Learning engages in PBL professional development, research, information exchange, curriculum development and networking in K-16 educational settings.
www.imsa.edu/

Problem-Based Learning
PBL is both a curriculum and a process. The curriculum consists of carefully selected and designed problems that demand from the learner acquisition of critical knowledge, problem solving proficiency, self-directed learning strategies, and team participation skills. The process replicates the commonly used systemic approach to resolving problems or meeting challenges that are encountered in life and career.
www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/

Spinning Webs of Significance
Martin Ryder's paper looks at activity systems from the perspective of the World Wide Web and Web publishing. It discusses notions of value surrounding web artifacts and considers the mediational value to the developer of anonymous communities that appropriate one's own online artifacts. The author investigates the significance of referring links from one web document to another, particularly from the socio-cultural perspective of Activity Theory.
carbon.cudenver.edu/

Inquiry and Problem Solving
A special issue of Focus: A Magazine for Classroom Innovators from the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics & Science Education.
www.enc.org/

Learning Theories: Situated Learning
Offers an overview of this topic with history, principles, application, and web links.
www.educationau.edu.au/

Constructivism (Martin Ryder)
A useful set of definitions and readings on constructivism.
carbon.cudenver.edu/

New Directions for Cooperative Education
Provides full-text access to the ERIC Digest of this name which explains new trends in active (cooperative) learning research.
www.ericdigests.org/

National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
Service-learning resources, research, events, and technical assistance for higher education, schools, tribal nations, and community-based organizations.
www.servicelearning.org/

The Joe W. and Dorothy Dorsett Brown Foundation Service Learning Program
Sponsors projects for Louisiana sixth through twelfth grade students. Information on service-learning for students and for teachers.
www.thebrownfoundation.org/

Learning In Deed
An initiative which aims to make service-learning -- a teaching strategy that integrates service to others with classroom instruction -- part of every K-12 student's experience.
www.learningindeed.org/