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Pavements Interactive - an example of a wiki site for transportation engineering.

"Rethinking and Redesigning Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment: What Contemporary Research and Theory Suggests", James W. Pellegrino, A Paper Commissioned by the National Center on Education and the Economy for the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, November 2006.

Arizona State University faculty web site on assessment, particularly for mechanics based instruction.

"How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School",
John D. Bransford, Ann L. Brown, and Rodney R. Cocking, editors Committee on Developments in the Science of Learning Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education National Research Council NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS Washington, D.C. 1999.

EDUCATION: Farewell, Lecture? Eric Mazur.  "Discussions of education are generally predicated on the assumption that we know what education is. I hope to convince you otherwise by recounting some of my own experiences. When I started teaching introductory physics to undergraduates at Harvard University, I never asked myself how I would educate my students. I did what my teachers had done--I lectured. I thought that was how one learns. Look around anywhere in the world and you'll find lecture halls filled with students and, at the front, an instructor. This approach to education has not changed since before the Renaissance and the birth of scientific inquiry. Early in my career I received the first hints that something was wrong with teaching in this manner, but I had ignored it. Sometimes it's hard to face reality."  Read more...

"Pedagogies of Engagement: Classroom-Based Practices", Karl A. Smith, Sheri Sheppard, David W. Johnson, and Roger T. Johnson.
Abstract: "Educators, researchers, and policy makers have advocated student involvement for some time as an essential aspect of meaningful learning. In the past twenty years engineering educators have implemented several means of better engaging their undergraduate students, including active and cooperative learning, learning communities, service learning, cooperative education, inquiry and problem-based learning, and team projects. This paper focuses on classroom-based pedagogies of engagement, particularly cooperative and problem-based learning. It includes a brief history, theoretical roots, research support, summary of practices, and suggestions for redesigning engineering classes and programs to include more student engagement. The paper also lays out the research ahead for advancing pedagogies aimed at more fully enhancing students’ involvement in their learning."

Karl Smith's web site with educational research and practice material.

About ExCEED
"The ExCEEd Teaching Model", Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, Volume 131, Issue 4, pp. 218-222 (October 2005).