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ELI provides a variety of member resources to help advance learning through information technology innovation. White papers, monthly emerging technologies briefs, and other publications keep you abreast of emerging trends and help you understand important concepts. ELI Discovery Tools offer practical help with project planning and implementation. Podcasts, videos, and online event archives bring to life—anywhere, anytime—the lively interaction of events. Explore a rich trove of resources including podcasts, videos, and online event archives—anywhere, anytime. Find out how you can get more from ELI resources through membership.

Publications

Learning Technologies Briefs: 7 Things You Should Know About...

ELI's 7 Things You Should Know About... series provides concise information on emerging learning practices and technologies. Each brief focuses on a single technology and describes what it is, how it works, where it is going, and why it matters to teaching and learning.

Briefs

White Papers

Authentic Learning Series

Authentic Learning Case Studies

Assessment Series

Net Savvy Series

E-Portfolio Series

The Horizon Report

The annual Horizon Report is a collaborative effort between the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative and the New Media Consortium (NMC). Each year, the report identifies six areas of emerging technology likely to have a significant impact on teaching and learning in higher education over the next one, three, and five years. Web links to additional resources and examples are provided for each technology cited.

E-Books

Learning Spaces, August 2006

Space, whether physical or virtual, can have a significant impact on learning. Learning Spaces focuses on how learner expectations influence such spaces, the principles and activities that facilitate learning, and the role of technology from the perspective of those who create learning environments: faculty, learning technologists, librarians, and administrators. It represents an ongoing exploration as we bring together space, technology, and pedagogy to ensure learner success.

Educating the Net Generation, February 2005

The aptitudes, attitudes, expectations, and learning styles of Net Gen students reflect an environment that is decidedly different from that which existed when faculty and administrators were raised. Educating the Net Generation explores the Net Gen and its implications for institutions in areas such as teaching, student services, learning space design, faculty development, and curriculum. It includes contributions from educators and students.

Case Studies: Innovations & Implementations

ELI's Innovations & Implementations series highlighted innovative teaching, learning, and technology practices in higher education. Although the series is no longer active, the affiliated case studies provide practical overviews of a variety of innovations, focusing on their significance and implementation issues.

Discovery Tools

ELI Discovery Tools help transform ideas into action. Whether you're considering a technology implementation, faculty or staff workshop, or another project relating to teaching, learning, and technology, the tools will equip you with the concepts and practical guidance to move forward successfully. ELI Discovery Tools have a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike (by-nc-sa) designation, which makes them completely customizable to meet your institution's unique needs.

ELI members enjoy exclusive access to Discovery Tools for the first six months they are available. If you are from an ELI member institution, log into your EDUCAUSE profile to ensure access to the tools. Check if your institution is an ELI member and learn more about ELI membership benefits and becoming a member.

Workshop Guides

Save time creating faculty and staff development events—take advantage of the readings, discussion questions, and customizable worksheets in the workshop guides, for daylong or multiday programs.

  • ELI Discovery Tool: Collaborative Learning Workshop Guide
    The Collaborative Learning Workshop Guide offers a set of action-oriented, modifiable, modular activities for use in faculty development, staff retreats, or institutional planning. Each of the modules contains topical guidelines, content, resources, and best practices, and each can be easily customized to fit the needs of your institution, department, or unit.
  • ELI Discovery Tool: Blended Learning Workshop Guide
    The Blended Learning Workshop Guide offers a set of action-oriented, modifiable, modular activities for use in faculty development, staff retreats, or institutional planning. Each of the modules contains topical guidelines, content, resources, and best practices, and each can be easily customized to fit the needs of your institution, department, or unit.
  • ELI Discovery Tool: Learning Space Workshop Guide
    The Learning Space Workshop Guide offers a set of action-oriented, modifiable, modular activities for use in faculty development, staff retreats, or similar events. The activities encourage critical thinking about characteristics and principles of effective learning space design, the pedagogical roles of technology, student perspectives, assessment, and related issues.
  • ELI Discovery Tool: Net Generation Workshop Guide
    The Net Generation Workshop Guide is a collection of simple activities and suggested readings on the Net Generation. It is divided into easily customized modules that can be used as stand-alone activities lasting a couple of hours or all together for a multiday event. They have been designed for faculty development, staff retreats, or similar programs.

Technology Guides

These guides offer essential information and practical guidelines for integrating technology into teaching and learning, helping you evaluate your options, make the case to stakeholders, plan, and move ahead with implementation. Use individual units to accomplish specific goals or all units for a comprehensive process.

  • ELI Discovery Tool: Guide to Blogging
    The Guide to Blogging offers a practical exploration of what blogging is and how it can be used to support teaching and learning. It walks you through the important issues to consider before launching a blogging program, shows you what other colleges and universities are doing, helps you navigate discussions with stakeholders, and points you to places you can find additional information.
  • ELI Discovery Tool: Guide to Podcasting
    A "know before you go" compendium, the Guide to Podcasting is designed to assist academic technology centers, IT units, and others in making the case for integrating podcasting into teaching and learning. The guide recaps what podcasting is; gives first-hand accounts of how students use—and don't use—podcasting; shows how podcasting supports learning; explains the benefits and limitations of podcasting in comparison with other tools; highlights implementation and assessment considerations; and identifies valuable podcasting resources.
  • ELI Discovery Tool: Applying Technology to Teaching and Learning
    Applying Technology to Teaching and Learning is a seven-step process to help you select and integrate technology into teaching and learning. Whether you are a faculty member, academic administrator, instructional technologist, or a planning committee member, you can use this tool to focus on the key learning issues that should drive technology selection, to better understand your technology options, and to implement the technology that best supports your teaching and learning objectives.

Student Input Tools

Use these ELI Discovery Tools to gather student feedback about needs, wants, and issues with teaching, learning, and technology at your institution. Use the results to engage your campus community and better plan initiatives.

  • ELI Discovery Tool: Student/Faculty Questionnaire
    The ELI Student/Faculty Questionnaire is designed to help you explore student and faculty experiences and expectations with technology in teaching and learning. Use it to explore student and faculty familiarity with learning technologies, expectations for the use of technology in teaching and learning, and views on how students prefer to learn.
  • ELI Discovery Tool: Student Input on Learning Spaces Tool
    The ELI Student Input on Learning Spaces Tool gives colleges and universities a structured yet creative way of seeing their campuses as their students do, and thus helps them more effectively plan and design their learning spaces.

Multimedia

Podcasts

The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative creates podcasts on topic areas related to teaching and learning with technology topics. Some podcasts are interviews with experts, while others are reports about specific topics.

Recent ELI Podcasts

ELI in Conversation

Below are several interviews with campus leaders to discuss ways that new technologies are transforming the educational landscape. These informal exchanges are captured in a new series called ELI in Conversation. Conversations include:

For a quick overview of podcasting, review ELI's 7 Things You Should Know About Podcasting or see the Wikipedia pages on podcasting and RSS.

Videos

ELI events explore key issues in teaching, learning, and technology, with an emphasis on practical ways to effectively meet student and faculty needs. Based on a central theme or topic, ELI videos help you explore an emerging trend or major challenge in teaching, learning, and technology, as well as what your campus might do about it.

The Future of Learning Environments
On today’s campuses, the image of a four-walled, fixed-in-time lecture hall is being shattered by a new generation of learning environments that transcend time and place and allow students to work collaboratively, share digitally, and create content. In this video, EDUCAUSE explores existing and emerging learning environments, from face-to-face classrooms that balance flexibility and collaboration with size to mobile environments that let students take content anywhere.

Connecting and Reflecting: Preparing Learners for Life 2.0

At the 2008 Annual Meeting in San Antonio, ELI explored new educational approaches characterized by creativity, critical thinking, communication, and reflection that will help prepare students for a world of constant change. Resources include student-created video and a video project undertaken by ELI "citizen journalists."

Student Content Showcase

ELI asked five Apple campus reps to answer the question, "What would your ideal education look like?" Their responses, captured in videos and podcasts, demonstrate a range of student opinion about the use of technology in the classroom and their own ideas for integrating podcasts, virtual worlds, and student-created media into the curriculum.

  • Podcasting in Higher Education
    Kelly Hansen, a student at Western Washington University, captures the candid opinions of students and faculty regarding the role of podcasting in the classroom, as well as how institutions could better support this emerging technology.
  • Student Tech Chat
    Emily Retzer, an undergraduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, explores students' attitudes about technology's current use in the classroom. While the overwhelming message is that technology is underutilized, some positive examples are included in students' anecdotes.
  • Video in Education
    Created by Drexel University student Dylan Steinberg, this is a quick video journey into the minds of six college students from across the nation. They discuss their views and dive into the future of videos in education.
  • Virtual Spaces
    Brett Jacquay, a student at Indiana University, explores the evolution of collaborative technologies and looks at the future of social technology in education.
  • The New EDU
    The lecture hall is dead. A new paradigm is needed. The New Edu, created by University of Connecticut technical analyst Clif Hirtle using Apple's Keynote application, offers examples of five key technology companies and how they can interact to create a migration from the physical classroom into a more extensible, virtual ecostructure.

In addition to their individual contributions, the students also roved the conference meeting space to create a summative video of their experience in San Antonio. Using clips from their own videos and candid interviews about the need for faculty and student conversation, this final video captures the meeting through a student lens.

Citizen Journalism

Citizen journalism refers to a wide range of activities in which everyday people contribute to information or commentary about news events. The practice epitomizes the belief that the experiences of people personally involved with an issue present a different—and often more complete—picture of events than can be derived from the perspective of an outsider. ELI put this innovation into practice, arming a team of five "citizen journalists" with video cameras to capture important themes that emerged during the event. This final video summary, created with the help of instructional technology graduate students from the University of Texas–San Antonio, was presented on the final day of the meeting.

Member-Contributed Videos

ELI developed a video summary of the event for use as a persistent learning resource. It provides an overview of the major concepts presented and discussed at the session, such as what it means for students, faculty, and staff to be net savvy and the potential pitfalls of not being net savvy in an online world. It also highlights the need to address issues of information literacy/fluency, media literacy, and good digital citizenship across the curriculum.

  • Information Fluency and the Net Generation (University of Central Florida)
    In this video from the University of Central Florida, students interview other students to uncover what they know and don't know about information fluency, starting with the question: "What is IF (information fluency)?" Please note that the video streams from the UCF website in Real Media format.
  • Net Experienced, But How Savvy? (University of Minnesota)
    This video from the University of Minnesota's Digital Media Center presents students talking about how they use digital technology in their lives and learning. It also compares those perspectives against survey data collected by the Center, which provides a more accurate picture of how knowledgeable and experienced students really are in the use of digital technologies. The video is provided in QuickTime format.
  • Students and Social Networking Applications (University of Dayton)
    This video from the University of Dayton shows students discussing in their own words how and why they use social networking applications such as Facebook. It streams from the University of Dayton website in Windows Media format.
  • The Net Gen as Creators of Content (University of Central Florida)
    This video from the University of Central Florida presents students discussing their role as content creators as well as consumers in a Web 2.0 world, noting that students come to the role of content creation with varying degrees of knowledge and skill, as well as different levels of understanding about the role's underlying responsibilities. It streams from the UCF website in Real Media format.
  • Meg and Joan Lippincott Net-Savvy Video
    In this video, Joan Lippincott, associate executive director of the Coalition for Networked Information, interviews her daughter Meg, a sophomore at Vassar College, about her experiences helping her peers at her college library's reference desk and how she's come to define a "net-savvy student" as a result.

Community Forum

The ELI Community Forum interactive electronic list is provided by the ELI to support dialogue among members and other interested participants coming together around teaching and learning. The Forum uses an open, self-subscription listserv in order to encourage wide and open participation. Subscribers benefit from the responsiveness and personal connectedness that frame a wealth of professional experience and resources.

Leaders

ELI Community Forum Discussion List

ELI Resources

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