Instructional Computing Facilities

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Instructional Computing Facilities

Learning Sciences and Learning Analytics: Time for a Marriage - Sponsored by Starin

February 5, 2013 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting

Over the past several decades, the interdisciplinary field of the learning sciences has developed a substantial body of theory, research, and design guidelines that can be leveraged for the emerg…

Bob Heterick Memorial Lecture - If Not Now, When?

February 13, 2012 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative 2012 Annual Meeting

The challenges facing American education are formidable and seem to call for change more radical than incremental. For more than two decades technology has been "on the verge" of transfor…

Using Technology to Engage Students - Sponsored by Turning Technologies, An EDUCAUSE Bronze Partner

February 14, 2011 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2011

It has been suggested that the lack of interaction in large lecture courses is to blame for the many problems facing these courses: declining enrollments, low attendance, poor evaluations, and d…

Using WordPress MU to Facilitate Technology Integration (Pilot Program/Emerging Technology)

February 16, 2011 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2011

This presentation we will demonstrate the use of WordPress MU to facilitate technology integration within a college of education. WordPress was used at the institutional level to archive FAQs, prov…

Implementation of Blended Learning for the Improvement of Student Learning (Pilot Program/Emerging Technology)

February 16, 2011 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2011

The session will discuss a grant funded program designed to engage faculty in the development of effective blended courses that integrate instructional technologies to develop student learning and …

iPads in Action: The Future Is Reality-Everything Is at Our Students' Fingertips - Sponsored by Apple and furniture provided by Herman Miller, An EDUCAUSE Silver Partner

February 16, 2011 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2011

This session will explore a pilot project in which iPads were provided to students enrolled in four classes (journalism and English), distributed to key student services departments (library, tutor…

iPads as a Fieldwork Research Tool (Pilot Program/Emerging Technology)

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

In fall 2010, Duke's Global Health Institute and the Center for Instructional Technology initiated a semester-long experiment using iPads specifically for fieldwork in a research methods cours…

Openness to Integrating Technology: Assessing Faculty and Student Perceptions and Attitudes (Research-Based)

February 16, 2011 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2011

This session will focus on the sharing of research results that an interdisciplinary team conducted to investigate faculty and students' use of and attitudes toward digital media, particularly…

Mobile Learning: Faculty and Student Stories (Pilot Program/Emerging Technology)

February 14, 2011 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2011

These faculty members from the University of Maryland have integrated the use of mobile devices into their courses. From computer science to journalism to digital storytelling, come hear their stor…

Mobile Devices in Higher Ed ... for Learning? You Bet (11:45 a.m. PT; 12:45 p.m. MT; 1:45 p.m. CT; 2:45 p.m. ET)

March 4, 2010 | A session at the ELI 2010 Online Spring Focus Session

Walk the halls inside your institution and you'll notice something: everyone has a mobile device. From feature phones to media players, mobile devices have quickly blanketed the higher ed la…