The Distributed Collaborative Learning Communities Project is a research group funded by the Hewlett Foundation Open Educational Resources Initiative. I have been the project manager, supported by two terrific Principal Investigators, Richard Murnane and John Willett.

Our research examines issues of excellence, equity, and analytics in the use of social technologies in U.S. K-12 settings.

Our first publication The State of Wiki Usage in U.S. K12 Schools, was published in Educational Researcher in February, 2012. Future publications will be linked from this page.

This site also hosts the documentation for the Wiki Quality Instrument, a tool designed to evaluate the degree to which wikis provide opportunities for students to develop essential skills such as expert thinking, complex communication, and new media literacy. The WQI pages are as follows:

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  1. Connecting the K-12 Classroom to the 21st Century: article from DMLcentral | Leading Change in Changing Times
    November 21, 2011

    [...] in the DML Research Associate Summer Institute and his work as the project manager of the Distributed Collaborative Learning Community, “a Hewlett Foundation funded initiative to study issues of excellence, equity and analytics [...]

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  3. Bud the Teacher Becomes Bud the Researcher, from EdTechResearcher | Leading Change in Changing Times
    November 30, 2011

    [...] have a particular soft spot for assessment because for the last four years I have run a research projectmeasuring the degree to which U.S. K-12 wikis provide opportunities for students to develop 21st [...]

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