Active Learning

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Active Learning

Convenience, Communications, and Control: How Students Use Technology

January 1, 2005

Even though technology may not be the entire focus, colleges and universities make massive technology investments based on what they believe students need, want, and already have. In this sixth cha…

Preparing the Academy of Today for the Learner of Tomorrow

January 1, 2005

Joel Hartman, Patsy Moskal, and Chuck Dziuban from the University of Central Florida have experience with different generations of learners in online, blended, and face-to-face situations. In this …

The Student’s Perspective

January 1, 2005

This third chapter from "Educating the Net Generation" provides insight into the Net Gen perspective on technology and higher education. This…

Using Technology as a Learning Tool, Not Just the Cool New Thing

January 1, 2005

This fifth chapter from "Educating the Net Generation" provides insight into the Net Gen perspective on technology and higher education. This…

Technology and Learning Expectations of the Net Generation

January 1, 2005

This second chapter from "Educating the Net Generation" provides insight into the Net Gen perspective on technology and higher education. Thi…

Is It Age or IT: First Steps Toward Understanding the Net Generation

January 1, 2005

This first chapter from "Educating the Net Generation" surveys much of the literature in an effort to distill a picture of Net Generation learners-students who were born in the 1980s and …

Educating the Net Generation

January 1, 2005

The Net Generation has grown up with information technology. The aptitudes, attitudes, expectations, and learning styles of Net Gen students reflect the environment in which they were raised -- o…

The Internet and the University: 2003 Forum

January 1, 2004

The Internet and the University: Forum 2003 includes the papers presented and discussed at the Forum on the Internet and the University, held during the Forum's 2003 Aspen Symposium. The Int…

Elements of Quality Online Education: Into the Mainstream

January 1, 2004

This the fifth volume in the annual Sloan-C series of case studies on quality education online. Essays cover topics in the following areas: student satisfaction and student success, learning effect…

Computer and Network Security in Higher Education

January 1, 2003

Computer and Network Security in Higher Education offers campus leaders and IT professionals an essential resource for determining the most technically viable, cost-effective, and culturally …