Key Issues in Teaching and Learning
Sunsetted: Key Issues in Teaching and Learning
For more information regarding the key trends, emerging technologies and practices, and future implications in educational technology, refer to the EDUCAUSE Horizon Report. If you have any questions regarding the annual Key Issues in Teaching and Learning survey, please contact Kathe Pelletier, Director, Teaching and Learning Program, EDUCAUSE.
2019 Key Issues in Teaching and Learning
Each year, ELI surveys the higher education community to determine key issues and opportunities in postsecondary teaching and learning. These key issues serve as the framework, or focal points, for our discussions and programming throughout the coming year.
More than 1,400 community members voted, and the following were identified as the 2019 Key Issues.
Download the infographic below and share with colleagues, or explore each of the issues more deeply with these resources.
Issues, Technologies, and Trends Resources
Higher education leaders and decision makers use the annual Issues, Technologies, and Trends resources—the Top 10 IT Issues, the Strategic Technologies and Trends, the ELI Key Issues in Teaching and Learning, and the Horizon Report—to know what's important and where to focus in their IT planning and management activities. When viewed together these resources provide more complete and nuanced guidance on institutional IT priorities.
Take a Deeper Dive into the Key Issues
1. Faculty Development and Engagement
- ECAR Study of Faculty and Information Technology, 2017
- Faculty Development and the ID2ID Program
- Personalized Faculty Development: Engaging Networks, Empowering Individuals
2. Online and Blended Learning
- Making Learning Without Borders a Reality
- 10 Tips for Effective Online Discussions
- Myths and Facts About Flipped Learning
- 5 Criteria to Retain the Faculty Voice in Quality Online Programs
3. Instructional and Learning Experience Design
- Evolve to Solve: 6 Ways to Navigate the Changing Landscape of an Instructional Designer
- Faculty Development and the ID2ID Program
- ICICLE: A Consortium for Learning Engineering
4. Digital and Information Literacy
- Teaching Students to Marshal Evidence and Evaluate Claims
- Digital Fluency: Preparing Students to Create Big, Bold Problems
- Info-Environmentalism: An Introduction
5. Accessibility and Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
- 7 Things You Should Know About Technology Procurement for Accessibility
- Promoting Accessibility in the Context of 21st-Century Higher Education
- Online Course Accessibility to Benefit Everyone
6. Competency and New Methods of Learning Assessment
- Quality Framework for Competency-Based Education Programs
- Competency-Based Education: Navigating Emerging Technologies, Part One
- 7 Things You Should Read About Competency-Based Education
7. Learning Analytics
- Big Data Is Getting Bigger. So Are the Privacy and Ethical Questions.
- Learning Analytics Research for LMS Course Design: Two Studies
- NGDLE Learning Analytics: Gaining a 360-Degree View of Learning
8. Open Education
- 7 Things You Should Know About Open Education: Content
- 7 Things You Should Know About Open Education: Practices
- The Values of Open Pedagogy
- University of British Columbia: Recognizing Open in Promotion and Tenure
9. Evaluating Instructional and Learning Innovations
- Uncovering Student Device Preferences for Online Course Access and Multimedia Learning
- The Difference Between Efficacy and Evidence, and Why It Matters
- The Benefits of Learning Assessment in Faculty Development
10. Academic Transformation
- VR and AR: The Ethical Challenges Ahead
- 7 Things You Should Know About Artificial Intelligence in Teaching and Learning
- Developing the Diverse Digital Professionals of the Future with Experiential Learning
- To Enable Academic Transformation, Leaders Crave Three Things
11. Adaptive Teaching and Learning
- Why Adaptive Courseware Will Scale in Higher Ed
- Adaptive Learning and the Economic of Liberal Arts Colleges
- 7 Things You Should Know About Adaptive Learning
12. Learning Spaces (including Makerspaces)
- Should IT Provide Faculty with Tools to Disable Wi-Fi in Their Classrooms?
- Fostering Human Connection for Meaningful Learning in Technologically Advanced Learning Spaces
- Educational Equity and the Classroom: Designing Learning-Ready Spaces for All Students
13. Microcredentialing and Digital Badging
- Advancing Digital Credentials and Competency-based Learning
- 7 Things You Should Know About Credential Transparency Description Language
- Moving Beyond the All-or-Nothing Paradigm for Higher Education
14. Digital Learning Architectures
- The Next Generation Digital Learning Environment in Action: A Contextualized Approach
- NGDLE Is Really Just “Enigma” Misspelled
- Architecting for Learning Analytics: Innovating for Sustainable Impact