Here you can find various research papers and reports with some relevance to the project.
• Who's Out There? A Pilot User Study of Educational Web Resources by the Science Learning Network (SLN) More info
• Practicing What We Teach:How learning theory can guide development of online educational activities More info
• R & D at the Exploratorium More info
• The “ICT, Lifelong Learning and Innovation” reports analyze innovation paradigms within different formal and informal learning contexts. Six of these 12 reports are now published and available for download here
• The New Learning Generation. Read the complete editorial here
• Proceedings of the Conference "Konwledge Construction in E-learning Context: CSCL, ODL, ICT and SNA in education", Cesena, Italy, September 1-2,2008. They are now published and available for download here
• Innovative and Creative Teaching Survey More info
• An Instructor's Guide to the Effective Use of Personal Response Systems (Clickers) in Teaching published by the Science Education Initiative and the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative at the University of British Columbia. This resource is a comprehensive guide to the effective use of hand-held personal response devices known as "clickers," which allow students in large lecture classes to respond interactively to a problem.
• "Learning Science in Informal Environments" from the National Academies.
• Web 2.0 and Scholarly Communication. More info