Active Learning

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Active Learning

Ford Policy Forum 2008

July 16, 2008

Ford Policy Forum 2008 contains the papers presented and discussed at the Ford Policy Forum, held during the Forum’s 2007 Aspen Symposium.  The Ford Policy Forum studies key economic issue…

Bridging the Diversity Divide: A Necessary Challenge for Higher Education in the 21st Century

January 1, 2002

Diversity holds a key to positive change in highereducation, but just how to embrace diversity and makeit a fundamental component of the mission of our collegesand universities is a vexing question…

Revolutionizing Learning in the Digital Age

January 1, 2001

Mitchel Resnick describes how higher education can enhance its primary role in the spread of knowledge by using technology to reframe teaching and learning at all levels. Inspired by the physical o…

Convergence of Divergence in International Higher Education Policy: Lessons from Europe

January 1, 2003

European higher education has been undergoing major restructuring since the early 1990s. Many of these - such as strengthening institutional leadership, establishing governing boards, enhancing qua…

Expanding the Concept of Literacy

January 1, 2002

Elizabeth Daley urges the definition of literacy be expanded to acknowledge the prevalence of the multimedia language of the screen or our everyday lives. Technology is enabling these alternative m…

Higher Education Alert: The Information Railroad Is Coming

January 1, 2002

Willam. A. Wulf points out that although the exponential pace of technological change cannot go on forever, the slowdown is not on the horizon and is not going to spare us from rethinking the unive…

The Paradox of Scope: A Challenge to the Governance of Higher Education

January 1, 2004

"The paradox of scope" identified the blurring of boundaries in corporations today, as activities such as information technology, logistics, and manufacturing are outsourced, while at the…

Creating Climates of Engagement on Diverse Campuses

January 1, 2004

College enrollment among students of color has increased dramatically in the last 20 years. Despite this diversity, the networks that students form, intentionally or unintentionally, are often raci…

Are Arms Races in Higher Education a Problem?

January 1, 2004

Economic reward for elite educational credentials has jumped sharply in recent decades leading to a variety of positional arms races that have increased costs sharply and threatened the continued v…

Getting From Good to Great in Higher Education

January 1, 2004

The principles applied in the research methodologies used to determine want makes a corporation go from good-to-great are reviewed and applied to higher education institutions. …