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"Crowdsourcing" a Textbook: 120 Student Authors Writing on a Wiki (Research-Based)

February 15, 2011 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2011

Many instructors have experimented with student-authored wiki textbooks. Advantages include reading and evaluating primary literature and facilitating constructivist learning. We manage the peer-re…

10 Ways to Ruin a Perfectly Good Design Assignment: Guest Blog by Dave Underwood

January 23, 2013

This guest blog by talented author Dave Underwood  takes a tongue-in-cheek look at what NOT to do when creating multimedia assignments for students. As a media consultant, he has worked wit…

2004 Information Format Trends: Content, Not Containers

January 1, 2004

This report examines the "unbundling of content" from traditional containers (books, journals, CDs) and distribution methods (postal mail, resource sharing). As the boundaries blur betwee…

2007 Horizon Report

January 1, 2007

The 2007 Horizon Report looks at six selected areas--"User-Created Content," "Social Networking," "Mobile Phones," "Virtual Worlds," "New Scholarship …

2010 Horizon Report

January 15, 2010

The annual Horizon Report is a collaborative effort between the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) and the New Media Consortium (NMC). Each year, the report identifies and describes six areas of …

2011 Horizon Report

February 8, 2011

Each year, the Horizon Report describes six areas of emerging technology that will have significant impact on higher education and creative expression over the next one to five years. The areas o…

2011 Horizon Report on Emerging Technologies Published

February 8, 2011

The 2011 Horizon Report , which was released today, spotlights six emerging technologies that are likely to have a significant impact on higher education in the next one to five years,…

7 Things You Should Know About Augmented Reality

October 15, 2005

Augmented reality adds information and meaning to a real object or place. Unlike virtual reality, augmented reality does not create a simulated reality. Instead, it takes a real object or space a…

7 Things You Should Know About Creative Commons

March 15, 2007

Creative Commons is an alternative to traditional copyright, devel¬oped by a nonprofit organization of the same name. By default, most original works are protected by copyright, which confers sp…

7 Things You Should Know About Digital Storytelling

January 15, 2007

Digital storytelling involves combining narrative with digital content to create a short movie. Digital stories can include interactive movies with highly produced audio and visual effects or pre…