Active Learning

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Active Learning

Living, Learning, Cyberspace: A Program-Wide Blogging Initiative for Virginia Tech's Honors Residential College

February 15, 2012 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative 2012 Annual Meeting

How can the intimate, engaged experience of small-group learning be a template for a large research university? Virginia Tech's answer: a blogging platform that enables students and professors…

Exposing Emerging Pedagogies: Can Web 2.0 Tools Influence Teaching and Learning? (Research-Based)

February 15, 2011 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2011

Institutions of all types are experimenting with blogs and wikis in various academic environments. Years ago, Penn State made a strategic decision to implement institutional blogging and wiki platf…

Using WordPress MU to Facilitate Technology Integration (Pilot Program/Emerging Technology)

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

This presentation we will demonstrate the use of WordPress MU to facilitate technology integration within a college of education. WordPress was used at the institutional level to archive FAQs, prov…

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…

Not Blogging in WordPress: Innovative Faculty Use of WordPress MU for Teaching and Scholarship (Learning Technology)

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

Faculty members and educational technologists have great ideas about new ways to enhance teaching and learning with technology. However, sometimes the available tools make these innovative ideas aw…

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…

Teaching and Learning with a Flexible Publishing Platform: WordPress MU Pilot (Learning Technology)

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

In fall 2009, Duke University offered a WordPress pilot focused on using WordPress MU specifically for teaching and learning. This session will feature examples from participating faculty and stude…

Social Blogging Platforms as E-Portfolios (Innovative Practice)

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

The focus of this session is to discuss the blogging platform at Penn State as a vehicle for student e-portfolios. We will share the ways we have begun to take full advantage of the fundamental asp…

Stories of Engagement and Disengagement: Social Media Adoption in Higher Education (Learning Technology)

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

In this roundtable discussion, participants will have an opportunity to contribute to the ongoing conversation about factors that contribute to faculty adoption of new social media tools for teachi…

Personal Publishing and the New Classroom Conversation: It's Not Your Grandpa's Blog, It's an Enterprise Collaboration Platform (Learning Technology)

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

The presenters have evangelized open personalized publishing platforms and have struggled with establish closed environments as the basis for teaching and learning with technology. Their overall qu…