Make the Case for ELI Membership

The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) is a dynamic organization committed to advancing learning through IT innovation. Joining ELI gives your entire institution access to the complete range of ELI resources and programs, including:

• Convenient monthly Web seminars on important teaching, learning, and technology topics.
• Discovery Tools that provide time-saving, practical support for technology exploration and planning, faculty and staff development workshops, and other activities.
• Significantly discounted admission to the ELI Annual Meeting and twice-yearly focus sessions.
• A dynamic network of colleagues engaged in teaching, learning, and technology.

We'd like to make it easy for you to share your interest in ELI with others at your institution and make the case for becoming an ELI member. Here are some resources that will help.

• Becoming an ELI Member [PDF 38 KB]: Use this one-page handout to share key information about ELI membership with your colleagues.
• PowerPoint presentation [PPT 4,940 KB] : Provide others with a PowerPoint overview of ELI and its work, complete with talking points.
• ELI Resource Summary [PDF 821 KB]: Distribute this two-page brief to colleagues so they can get a quick overview of the information and materials ELI makes available to its members.
• Sample material:
  • Show others how quickly and easily they can understand technology and related practices with 7 Things You Should Know About…, ELI's brief, concise, no-jargon emerging technology series.
  • Use our white papers to demonstrate how ELI investigates issues in greater depth. For example, ELI's three-part white paper series on net savvy includes:
    • Ensuring the Net Generation Is Net Savvy
    • Getting Past Google: Perspectives on Information Literacy from the Millennial Mind
    • How Choice, Co-Creation, and Culture Are Changing What It Means to Be Net Savvy
  • Invite colleagues to listen to ELI podcasts and learn more about teaching, learning, and technology—when it's convenient for them. For example, they can access EDUCAUSE Pocket Edition podcasts about Wikipedia and the use of podcasting to support teaching and learning, or they can hear presentations from ELI events, such as the 2007 annual meeting.
  • Encourage them to visit the ELI Resources page and explore the wide array of ELI materials for additional products of interest.
• Save time on practical challenges using ELI Discovery Tools such as our Learning Space Workshop Guide and Net Generation Discovery Tool.
• Calendar of events [PDF 176 KB]: Illustrate the range of ELI's online and face-to-face events by downloading the events calendar.
• Resource packet: For tangible ELI material that can be read at the user's convenience, request a folder with printed samples.

Learning is at the core of higher education. ELI is committed to helping members learn, share, and grow so that we all do our best to support successful learning. If you would like more information about ELI events and resources, please contact ELI Interim Director Julie Little at jlittle@educause.edu or (865) 250-9450. If you have questions about applying for ELI membership, please contact Linda Kelley at lkelley@educause.edu or (303) 939-0304.