E-Content

EDUCAUSE Library Items for E-Content

Teaching in an Age of Plenty

November 9, 2012 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2012

The practice and profession of teaching developed in the presence of a great scarcity of knowledge. Ubiquitous information and ever more powerful search and knowledge engines have changed the pro…

Wikipedia and Academia, Friends at Last: Curricular Initiatives in Higher Education

October 19, 2011 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference

Last January marked the tenth anniversary of Wikipedia, a milestone that finds the open-access encyclopedia as the top-ranked, noncommercial site in the world. Wikipedia has had an impact that is p…

Seminar 14A - Teaching and Learning with Social and Digital Media in Higher Education PLEASE NOTE: Separate registration and fee is required to attend this seminar.

October 18, 2011 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference

Social and digital media are changing the way we live and the way our students learn and interact with each other, and with us. As leaders in higher education, we need to not only be aware of these…

Seminar 02P - Can You Digg It? Incorporating Google, Wikipedia, and YouTube into Multimedia Research Assignments

November 3, 2009 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2009 Annual Conference

Stop fighting! Admit that students assigned a research project are going to start with Google and Wikipedia and try to use YouTube. Embrace the 21st century and design multimedia research assignmen…

Distance Student Learning: The Addition of Rich Media and an Assessment of Outcomes

October 29, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference

This presentation will describe the model and tools used to successfully add rich-media components to online courses in a doctor of pharmacy program with minimal faculty and staff time. Assessment …

A Complete Online Class: Course Management, Live Web Conferencing, and Teacher-Made Streaming Movies

October 29, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference

Explore an online course by viewing the actual course preparation, live web office hours, and teacher-made movies. Participants will experience a live online web session with students in California…

Using Wikipedia to Reenvision the Term Paper

October 26, 2007 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference

The structure of the traditional term paper can limit its educational value. To make the assignment more meaningful, students published their papers in Wikipedia. This session will examine how publ…

Content Catastrophe: The Gap Between Textbooks and Global Real-Time Knowledge Acquisition

October 12, 2006 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2006 Annual Conference

Teaching from a textbook is based on the premises that course materials are static and learning experiences can be standardized. In learner-centered environments in an ever-changing world, content …

Building a Distributed Knowledge Network: National and International Perspectives

October 10, 2006 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2006 Annual Conference

During the past seven years, in partnership with various organizations and institutions, the Carnegie Foundation has helped document and share knowledge in effective educational practices at many l…

What Types of Online Teaching Resources Do Students Prefer?

January 1, 2002

Research will be presented that indicates most students prefer low bandwidth on-line course materials over more resource intensive applications with the older students having a greater preference f…