Active Learning

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Active Learning

Creating a Collaborative Information Technology Environment for Higher Education

January 1, 2002

Fuchs discusses the impediments to collaboration as well as remarkable current efforts that might point the way to the future of information technology in higher education. He indicates that "…

The Dynamics of Innovation

January 1, 2002

Utterback urges higher education leaders to tap the tremendous promise that innovations in technology and new learning media hold for making education more widely available, more reasonably proceed…

Can Higher Education Evolve?: Mastering the Challenges of Change

January 1, 2002

Rosabeth Moss Kanter focuses on the challenges facing institutions as they strive to adapt and undergo systemic change, with an emphasis on the human skills that build meaningful community out of 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…

Endowment Spending Policy: An Economist’s Perspective

January 1, 2004

The majority of colleges and universities today target their endowment spending at about 5 percent of a 12-quarter average of total endowment funds. The result over the past 10 years has been growi…

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…

Universal Higher Education: Challenges and Strategies for New College Students

January 1, 2004

Rosenbaum exposes common misconceptions about college and the labor market that underpins the college-for-all policy adopted in American high schools. He describes the barriers that many new colleg…

State Fiscal Constraints and Higher Education Spending: The Role of Medicaid and the Business Cycle

January 1, 2004

Thomas Kane and Peter Orszag document the decline in higher education over the past 20 years. They examine the interaction between state appropriations for higher education, other state budget item…