Instructional Technologies

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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…

Authentic Learning in History and Social Sciences: How "Real" Can We Make the Classroom Experience?

March 19, 2008 | A session at the ELI 2008 Online Spring Focus Session

How can we bring authentic learning, with real-world outcomes and assessments, into the history/social science classroom? This session will discuss the presenter's efforts to design and teach …

Bob Heterick Memorial Lectureship - Digital Histories for the Digital Age: How Do We Teach Writing Now?

January 19, 2010 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2010

The digital environment has had an immense effect on American society, learning, and education: we have more sources available at our fingertips than any previous generation. Teaching and learning …

Building the New Platform for Digital Expression (Innovative Practice)

January 28, 2008 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2008

We know our students are different, but in many cases we have not prepared our campuses to support their expectations. Additionally, faculty are pushing us to provide innovative ways to meet our st…

Digital Documentaries Using Primary Access

March 19, 2008 | A session at the ELI 2008 Online Spring Focus Session

PrimaryAccess (www.primaryaccess.org) www.primaryaccess.org is a Web 2.0 digital tool developed at the University of Virginia's Center for Technology and Teacher Education that allows teac…

Expert Discussion Session: Evolving Models for E-Texts

February 14, 2012

In this session, we'll briefly describe Indiana University's e-text agreements with five publishers and with Courseload, the provider of the e-text e-reader software. These agreements are…

Future Content: Designing Instructional Materials for the Digital Native

January 23, 2007 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2007

We are in the midst of a learners' revolution, rooted in the growing divide between legacy instructional methods and materials, and a new culture of learners seeking content designed especiall…

Human Futures for Technology and Education

January 29, 2008 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2008

Digital information technologies have profound implications for education and force us to rethink how we teach, what we teach, and who we think we are teaching. Understanding these implications and…

Kindles in the Classroom: Theories, Practices, and Results in a Lower-Division English Course (Innovative Practice)

January 21, 2010 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2010

Theoretically, the Kindle is a promising teaching and learning device for the mobile generation now attending institutions of higher learning. In piloting subsidized Amazon Kindles, however, Prince…

Middleware for Integrating Faculty-Authored Learning Tools with the CHEF System

January 1, 2004

One means to engage faculty in their university's course management structure is to facilitate their ability to author learning objects that can interface with it. This presentation demonstrat…