Assessment and Evaluation

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Assessment and Evaluation

New Technology-based Models for Postsecondary Learning: Conceptual Frameworks and Research Agendas

June 3, 2013

This report is the result of a National Science Foundation-Sponsored Computing Research Association Workshop held at MIT on January 9-11, 2013. This workshop developed a framework for understan…

Research & Practice in Assessment (RPA), Special Issue: MOOCs and Technology

June 6, 2013

This isse of Research & Practice in Assessment (RPA), Volume 8, Summer 2013, shines the spotlight on MOOCs. Specific MOOC related articles in this issue include; Assessment’s…

RETHINK: Planning and Designing for K–12 Next Generation Learning

June 10, 2013

This toolkit from Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) and the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) is for K-12 district, charter, and school leaders to use in the ve…

Backgrounds and Behaviors of MOOC Participants and Implications for Faculty

April 4, 2013 | A session at the ELI Online Spring Focus Session: Learning and the MOOC

In spring 2012, the first MIT/edX MOOC, "Circuits and Electronics" (6.002x), was open to students around the world. A team of researchers from MIT and Harvard has been analyzing data gene…

Digital Badges as an Open Passport for Learning

January 7, 2013

Join Malcolm Brown, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative director, and Veronica Diaz, ELI associate director, as they moderate this webinar with Kyle Bowen. As we continue to reshape the form and method …

A National Primer on K-12 Online Learning (Version 2)

October 1, 2010

The National Primer on K-12 Online Learning provides a comprehensive overview of online learning by examining the basics about online teaching and learning, evaluating academic success, profess…

Building Blocks for College Completion: Blended Learning

December 11, 2012

Ten projects funded by Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) in the initiative’s first round of investment in 2011, known as Wave I, sought to scale the adoption of blended learning model…

Using Laptops in the Classroom: The University of Michigan

December 3, 2012

Across the University of Michigan, laptops and other mobile devices are appearing in the classroom in greater numbers. Many faculty see this trend as an opportunity for more innovative teac…

Data Visualization in Education

March 19, 2013 | A session at the Midwest Regional Conference

Predictably, data-visualization technologies are applied to science and business practices for modeling outcomes and forecasting trends. What if this same technology were applied to course conten…

KIPP Chicago: KIPP Create College Prep Middle School

November 28, 2012

This Chicago middle school serving grades 5-8 builds on the KIPP academic model by blending instructional technology with high-quality teaching methods . The technology is a tool for cutting c…