Instructional Technologies

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Instructional Technologies

We Love E-Books!

April 1, 2013

Carrie Rampp is Director of Library Services and Instructional Technology at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. True confession: I really love e-books. They are so conven…

Cultivating Change in the Academy: 50+ Stories from the Digital Frontlines at the University of Minnesota in 2012

July 9, 2012

Cultivating Change is an eBook designed to stimulate discussion about what’s possible as well as generate new vision and academic technology direction. It serves as a means for faculty, ins…

ERO Podcast: Chief of Staff for the Khan Academy, Jessica Yuen

September 5, 2012

In this podcast, we talk with Chief of Staff for the Khan Academy, Jessica Yuen. In our conversation, she discusses the Khan Academy's use of analytics, attitude toward affordability for stu…

Podcast: Wake Forest University's BioBook

July 17, 2012

In this podcast we interview the creators of BioBook, a scalable e-text embodying six central principles of learning. It is organized into self-contained "nodes" that can be revised or …

Adoption of E-Book Readers among College Students: A Survey

September 22, 2011

Author Nancy Foasberg, looks into the use of E-Readers on a college campus.  This article was published in the September 2011 issue of Information Technology and Libraries . To learn whether…

Physical Sciences Case studies: information use and discovery

January 26, 2012

"The RIN, the Institute of Physics (IOP), Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP) and the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) have recently published a set of case studies which pr…

Use the Tools: How Two Libraries Used Their Course Management System to Provide Point-of-Need Service to Students

May 30, 2012 | A session at the Southeast Regional Conference

Libraries can no longer reach the majority of their students using traditional methods such as library instruction classes and reference desk interviews; however, students still need help with find…

eTexts: A Perishable Opportunity for Higher Education?

January 24, 2012

What role, if any, should colleges and universities play in the shift from print to digital textbooks (eTexts) ? One perspective is that eTexts are a consumer transaction between a publisher …

A Study of Four Textbook Distribution Models

December 15, 2011

Key Takeaways In preparation for campus-wide e-text adoption , Daytona State College completed a two-year comparative study of four textbook distribution models : print purch…

7 Things You Should Know About WordPress

September 2, 2011

WordPress is an open-source web application that is fundamentally a tool for publishing content , and a broad array of colleges and universities have made use of WordPress and encouraged its …