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ELI ResourcesELI provides a variety of resources to help you advance learning through IT innovation. White papers, monthly emerging technologies briefs, and other publications help you stay aware of emerging trends and 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.
PublicationsLearning Technologies Briefs: 7 Things You Should Know About...The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative's (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. E-BooksLearning Spaces, August 2006Space, 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 2005The Net Generation has grown up with information technology. 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, EDUCAUSE's first e-book, 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. The Horizon ReportThe annual Horizon Report is a collaborative effort between the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). 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. White PapersAuthentic Learning Series
Authentic Learning Case Studies
Assessment Series
Net Savvy Series
E-Portfolio Series
Occasional Papers
ELI NEWSELI NEWS, a bimonthly e-mail newsletter, summarizes and links to news and information on ELI activities and other topics of interest to ELI members and the higher education community in general. ELI primary and participating representatives receive ELI NEWS as part of their membership. Anyone interested in advancing learning through IT innovation is invited to subscribe. Case Studies: Innovations & ImplementationsELI's Innovations & Implementations series highlighted innovative teaching, learning, and technology practices in higher education. Although the series is no longer active, the case studies produced as part of it provide practical overviews of a variety of innovations, focusing on their significance and implementation issues. Discovery ToolsELI Discovery Tools help you move 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 members enjoy exclusive access to Discovery Tools for the first 6 months they are available. If you are from an ELI member institution, log into your EDUCAUSE profile to ensure access to the tools. If you are not from an ELI member institution, click the links below to see if a tool is now publicly available.
Feel free to customize ELI Discovery Tools to meet your institution's unique needs. We invite you to share your improvements with the ELI member community—just forward suggestions or revised materials to EDUCAUSE Director of Teaching, Learning, and Professional Development Julie K. Little (jlittle@educause.edu) or ELI Program Administrator Carie Page (cpage@educause.edu). Workshop GuidesSave time creating faculty and staff development events—take advantage of the readings, discussion questions, and customizable worksheets in the workshop guides. Use the modules individually for brief, one-hour seminars or all together for day-long or multi-day programs.
Technology GuidesThese 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.
Student Input ToolsUse 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.
PodcastsThe EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative podcasts sessions and presentations from its events when possible, but we also sponsor podcasts you can use to learn about areas such as learning technologies or learning space design. Some of those podcasts are interviews with experts, while others are reports about specific topics. (Note: For a quick overview of podcasting, review ELI's 7 Things You Should Know About Podcasting or listen to "It's Pod Mania!", an EDUCAUSE Pocket Edition podcast. If you would like to learn more about what podcasting is and how to access or develop podcasts, see the Wikipedia pages on podcasting and RSS.) Podcasts from ELI Events
ELI in ConversationAt the 2008 Annual Meeting in San Antonio, ELI sat down with conference speakers and campus leaders to discuss the ways that new technologies are transforming the educational landscape. These informal exchanges are captured in a new series called ELI in Conversation. Conversations include:
EDUCAUSE Pocket EditionHands-free, portable, informative, and engaging--that's EDUCAUSE Pocket Edition. If you're too busy to read about new technologies, listen to Pocket Edition instead. Just download Pocket Edition audio files to your computer or MP3 player and listen at your leisure. Or use podcasting to automatically download new reports as they're posted. Enhanced Podcasts on Learning Spaces (ELI 2006 Annual Meeting)Enhanced podcasting involves synching images or video with audio files which can be played on a computer or downloaded automatically to a video- or image-enabled iPod via iTunes. For the 2006 Annual Meeting, ELI asked a few members to pilot enhanced podcasting by developing model learning spaces case studies. Julie Little of the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and Dan Gilbert of the Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning each provided podcasts that explore effective learning spaces and demonstrate the value of enhanced podcasting. VideosELI events delve into key issues in teaching, learning, and technology, with an emphasis on practical ways to effectively meet student and faculty needs. Since not everyone can attend ELI events, and those who do may appreciate the opportunity to refresh and share what they've learned, ELI offers videos that capture the core concepts and projects presented at our events. 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. Each video developed by ELI is accompanied by a set of discussion questions you can use to start a campus dialogue or begin a professional development workshop on the given topic. ELI encourages you to utilize these "discussion starters" to get your institution talking about its teaching, learning, and technology future. ELI members also contribute videos to ELI events to provide additional context for participant discussion and reflection. You can access member videos from here as well as from the individual event proceedings, which you can find via the ELI events calendar Connecting and Reflecting: Preparing Learners for Life 2.0At 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 ShowcaseELI 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.
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 JournalismCitizen 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. Event VideoELI 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, as well as across professional development and student life programs. Please note: You can view this movie full screen by clicking the icon just to the right of the progress bar. The posted set of discussion questions will help you organize your thoughts as you watch the video. You can also use them to initiate campus conversations or professional development activities on this topic. Being Net SavvyThe ELI 2007 Fall Focus Session, Being Net Savvy: Developing Skills for a Rapidly Changing World, explored what it means for students, faculty, and staff to be net savvy, and why it is a critical skill in a Web 2.0 world. A number of video resources emerged from the event. Member-Contributed VideosAs part of the event, videos from member institutions were presented that provide the student perspective on issues such as information literacy / fluency, the benefits and challenges of social networking applications, and the implications of student-created content.
Immersive Learning EnvironmentsThe following video, "Immersive Learning Environments: New Paths to Interaction and Engagement," presents highlights from the 2007 ELI Spring Focus Session and discusses the use of ILEs such as online games, simulations, and virtual worlds to support teaching and learning. Examples include teaching in Second Life and using haptics to allow learners to feel what they are seeing and doing in computer simulations. Please note: You can view this movie full screen by clicking the icon just to the right of the progress bar. The posted set of discussion questions will help you organize your thoughts as you watch the video. You can also use them to initiate campus conversations or professional development activities on this topic. Event ArchivesOnline Focus SessionIn March 2008, ELI brought together a variety of professionals to examine how today's technologies can support authentic activities. The first Online Spring Focus Session, Real-World and Technology-Rich: Learning by Doing, Learning in Context, featured a series of web-based presentations and interactive activities designed to explore an educational approach where students engage with the content, with each other, and with experts in and out of the classroom. Session archives are available on the Proceedings page, with links to discussion questions, a chat wiki, event whiteboards and tag clouds. You can these resources to start a conversation on your own campus or to consider the ways the ideas explored during the focus session apply to your institution. Web SeminarsELI Web Seminars are hour-long interactive Web conferences on teaching, learning, and technology issues. Only ELI members can participate, and access to an archived seminar is restricted to members for 6 months from the date of the original event. After that, ELI makes the archive publicly available. See the Web Seminar archives for a list of available sessions. For the current seminar schedule, see the ELI Events Calendar or the Upcoming Seminars page. Web SymposiumELI held its first Web Symposium from May 24-25, 2006. This series of live, Web-based sessions addressed what education needs to do to ensure student success in a world transformed by information technology. The event proceedings are available to both participants and non-participants alike. View the archived presentations and listen to what the speakers had to say about this important issue. Student VoicesELI continually strives to reflect authentic student perspectives in everything it does. From hosting student presenters at our events to sponsoring the development of white papers and other materials by student authors, ELI ensures that you hear directly from learners what they think, want, and need regarding teaching, learning, and technology. We have pulled together the links below from across our Web pages so you can conveniently access ELI "student voices" resources from one place and learn for yourself what students think. For additional resources about today's learners and the role technology plays in their lives and learning, please see our Net Generation Learners topic page. E-Books
White Papers
VideosELI 2008 Annual Meeting, Connecting and Reflecting: Preparing Learners for Life 2.0At the ELI 2008 Annual Meeting in San Antonio, 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.
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. ELI 2007 Fall Focus Session, Being Net Savvy: Developing Skills for a Rapidly Changing WorldThe ELI 2007 Fall Focus Session, Being Net Savvy: Developing Skills for a Rapidly Changing World, explored what it means for students, faculty, and staff to be net savvy, and why it is a critical skill in a Web 2.0 world. As part of the event, member institutions provided videos that highlight the student perspective on issues such as information literacy / fluency, the benefits and challenges of social networking applications, and the implications of student-created content.
Web Events
Podcasts
ELI Discovery ToolsThe following ELI Discovery Tools are designed to help you effectively engage your students and get their firsthand perspectives on important teaching, learning, and technology topics. Please note that only ELI members can access Discovery Tools for the first 6 months they are available.
ELI NewsELI NEWS, a bimonthly e-mail newsletter, summarizes and links to news and information on ELI activities and other topics of interest to ELI members and the higher education community in general. ELI primary and participating representatives receive ELI NEWS as part of their membership. Anyone interested in advancing learning through IT innovation is invited to subscribe. Subscribe to ELI NewsYou will need an EDUCAUSE profile to subscribe to ELI News. If you do not already have a profile please create one now. If you already have a profile, follow these few steps to complete your subscription.
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