SCUP–45 Monday Plenary Session

Mentioned Resources (Website and Books)

Mark Milliron at SCUP–45Mark Milliron, deputy director for postsecondary education with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, addressed the Monday morning plenary session of SCUP–45 on July 12, 2010, in Minneapolis, MN.

His slide show is available for SCUP members and for nonmembers who attended the conference. Anyone is welcome to view video of a short part of his presentation on the SCUP–45 home page, where there are also more than 20 other YouTube videos from the conference.

Below, we have provided links to nearly all of the resources (websites and books) he mentioned in his presentation.

Books
The Next Hundred Million

Websites

Some of these merely showed up as images in Milliron's slide show as he spoke.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Postsecondary Education Program
Study: Ages of Social Network Users
Answer Machines: Wolfram Alpha
Action Analytics: Measuring and Improving Performance That Matters in Higher Education
Learning Abstracts: The Courage to Learn
The Blackberry Storm
The Kindle
The Apple iPad
The Wii
MUVEES: Multi-User Virtual Environment Experiential Simulator (Harvard)
Second Life
GamesParentsTeachers.com: Parent-Teacher Toolkit
Social Impact Games: Entertaining Games with Non-Entertainment Goals (a.k.a. Serious Games)
TED: Ideas Worth Spreading
CNN
YouTube
Rate My Professors
Wikipedia
iTunes U
Academic Earth: Online Degrees and Video Courses from Leading Universities
YouTube Edu
OER Commons - Open Education Resources
NCAT: The National Center Academic Transformation

Virginia Tech's Math Emporium

Mission: Early College High School
Western Governor's University
Public Forum on Action Analytics
Purdue's Signals: Stoplights for Student Success