Digital Preservation

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Digital Preservation

Redesigning Schools to Reach Every Student with Excellent Teachers: A Financial Planning Summary

May 1, 2012

This brief  summarizes the ways that schools and their teachers can simultaneously reach more students with excellent teaching,  expand teachers’ career opportunities, and sustainably fun…

Innovating Toward Sustainability: How Computer Labs Can Enable New Staffing Structures, and New Savings

December 1, 2012

Even as new educational technologies have emerged, staffing innovations have seemed all but impossible in American schools. Charter and district schools alike long ago surrendered to the notion t…

Blended Learning Implementation Guide

February 5, 2013

Digital Learning Now! (DLN) released "The Blended Learning Implementation Guide," the fifth DLN Smart Series paper, for leaders who are ready seize the opp…

2012 CDS Executive Summary Report

January 24, 2013

This report summarizes results from the EDUCAUSE Core Data Service (CDS) survey. Using a matched set of 616 CDS 2011 and CDS 2012 participating institutions, this year’s report is a detaile…

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…

Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction

January 1, 2011

As digital tools proliferate and improve, solid instruction in the basics will eventually become “flat”—available anywhere globally—and the elements of excellent teaching that ar…

School Finance in the Digital-Learning Era

January 1, 2011

America’s system for financing K-12 education is not neutral about innovation and the use of new technologies. Indeed, that system is stacked against them. To remedy this, our education-fundi…

The Costs of Online Learning

January 1, 2012

It’s impossible to put a single price tag on “online learning” because, like cars, colleges, and cottages, it comes in widely varying levels of quality and efficiency. Instead, this paper…

Implementing Online Learning Labs in Schools and Districts: Lessons From Miami-Dade’s First Year

November 1, 2011

A s online learning programs become prevalent in U.S. schools, school and district leaders, teachers, and policy makers are looking for the best ways to use technology to enhance learning. T…

Going Exponential – Growing the Charter Sector’s Best

January 1, 2011

The supply of seats in the nation’s best charter schools is not growing rapidly enough to serve the millions of low-income children who need better schools.  Based on lessons from the fastes…