Active Learning

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Why Intervention and Impact Evaluation Is Critical for Improving Student Learning

February 4, 2013 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting

This session will highlight effective strategies for designing and assessing the impact of interventions aimed at improving learning. Drawing on two recent SEI case studies that reported research…

As Learners Move into the Open: Obstacles to Overcome, Strategies for Success, and Potential for Participatory Learning (Research-Based)

February 16, 2011 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2011

This presentation will highlight results from two research studies conducted between 2008 and 2010 on social media use for learning. Participants were undergraduate and graduate students in a Schoo…

Five Years of Course Redesign: Lessons Learned (Innovative Practice)

January 20, 2010 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2010

Large-enrollment undergraduate classes are an instructional ghetto in higher education. We know that hands-on experiential learning, especially in collaboration with other students, is a superior p…

Expanding Educational Realities: Exploring Interactive and Immersive Learning Experiences

January 20, 2010 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2010

Today's students are increasingly choosing to move beyond the traditional physical classroom educational model. The Internet has created an educational evolution fostering learner-centered env…

Rebooting the Past, Uploading the Future: Web 2.0 and the Study of History Through a Living Learning Community (Learning Technology)

January 19, 2010 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2010

In this case study, the instructor, the undergraduate teaching assistant, and a library administrator will assess how new media and Web 2.0 technologies transform project-based learning within a un…

Pret-a-Porter Technology: Rebooting the Earlham College Study Abroad Program (Innovative Practice)

January 19, 2010 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2010

Many voices in higher education still view technology as a barrier to cultural immersion in terms of study abroad. This session will demonstrate why universities should reconsider the use of mobile…

Learning and Playing Together: An Interinstitutional, Interdisciplinary Gaming Course

September 23, 2009 | A session at the ELI 2009 Online Fall Focus Session

To encourage interdisciplinary student collaboration, Johns Hopkins created an introductory gaming course taught by faculty from regional colleges and professionals in the expanding gaming indust…

Game-Based Learning: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Learning Technology)

January 22, 2009 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2009

This session will focus on three aspects of gaming in higher education: What new opportunities can games bring to our students' learning experiences? What issues of concern surround the discus…

Active Learning in Field-Based Classes Using Tablet PCs for Collaborative Data Collection and Mapping (Learning Technology)

January 21, 2009 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2009

Tablet PCs in higher education field courses have changed the way we teach field-mapping and data-collection concepts. Curriculum redesign and assessment strategies were applied to field archaeolog…

Technology in the Field: Tablet PCs in Higher Education

January 20, 2009 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2009

Field-based classes are enhanced by pen-enabled tablet PCs. The mobility of a tablet PC allows Vassar students to investigate geospatial and statistical problems in the field with software, a full …