Instructional Technologies

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Instructional Technologies

What Undergraduates Say About Technology: Results from the 2010 ECAR Student Study

October 13, 2010 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2010 Annual Conference

The speakers will present the key findings of the seventh annual ECAR Study of Undergraduates and Information Technology, 2010, including student use of social networking and web-based tools and In…

How the Availability of Streamed Lectures Modifies Undergraduate Student Behavior

October 13, 2010 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2010 Annual Conference

Most large research universities expend a great deal of effort and significant financial resources providing some form of lecture capture, yet the parameters of student usage are only vaguely explo…

Thinking Outside the Virtual Classroom

October 31, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference

Educating our students is certainly our priority, but how can we connect learners to each other in a way that provides more opportunities for personal growth, networking, and connections? By taking…

Disconnects Between Learning Management Systems and Millennial Generation User Expectations

October 31, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference

Educational technologists and librarians will follow up their well-received EDUCAUSE 2007 panel session on library disconnects to focus on millennial user expectations concerning learning managemen…

Assessing the Student Experience in Second Life

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

For several years, educational innovators have experimented with using virtual worlds such as Second Life to enhance student learning. Though many of these implementations seem successful, few have…

Social Media and Education: The Conflict Between Technology and Institutional Education, and the Future

October 30, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference

Today's technology enables users to form and join communities of common interest to learn and share information. In opposition to the privileged learning spaces of higher education, social med…

Fostering Learning in the Networked World: The Cyberlearning Opportunity and Challenge

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

Imagine a freshman college student in the year 2015. She has grown up in a world where learning is as accessible through technologies at home as it is in the classroom, and digital content is as re…

Undergraduates Speak about IT: Results of the 2007 ECAR Survey

October 24, 2007 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference

What information technologies are used by undergraduates? How does IT contribute to their academic experiences and learning? What has changed since 2005? ECAR presents key findings from the fourth …

E-Portfolio for Assessment, Student Learning, and Career Development: Open Source Portfolio Applications

October 24, 2007 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference

The Open Source Portfolio (OSP), which began as a student-centered tool promoting student learning and providing opportunities for career development and reflection, also offers features that make …

Using Emerging Student-Centered Technologies to Enhance the Curriculum

October 24, 2007 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference

This session will report on the Digital Enhanced Learning Initiative (DELI), which explores how student-centered technologies can enhance students' academic experiences. Students in five fresh…