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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…

"Twitterpated" by Twitter and Other Web 2.0 Technologies for Instructional Purposes

March 10, 2009 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2009

This presentation will highlight and demonstrate ways in which freely available technologies like Twitter were used in a summer online course and can be used to enhance instruction. Tools will be d…

2005 Horizon Report

January 1, 2005

The 2005 Horizon Report, highlights six technologies that the underlying research suggests will become very important to higher education over the next one to five years. A central focus of th…

2006 Horizon Report

January 1, 2006

The annual Horizon Report is a collaborative effort between the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). Each year, the report identifies and describes six areas of …

2008 Horizon Report

January 29, 2008

The New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) jointly produced Horizon Report describes six areas of emerging technology that will have significant impact on highe…

50 Ways to Use Twitter in the College Classroom

August 5, 2009

Twitter has caught fire across many professional fields as well as personally, but it seems to be in the beginning stages in the realm of higher education . The creative ways Twitter users hav…

7 Things You Should Know About Blogs

September 15, 2005

A blog—shorthand for "Web log"—is an online collection of personal commentary and links. Blogs can be viewed as online journals to which others can respond that are as simple to use…

7 Things You Should Know About Collaborative Annotation

October 5, 2009

Collaborative annotation tools expand the concept of social bookmarking by allowing users not only to share bookmarks but also to digitally annotate web pages. Rather than simply pointing to part…

7 Things You Should Know About Google Earth

October 15, 2006

Google Earth is an interactive mapping application that allows users to navigate (or "fly") the entire globe, viewing satellite imagery with overlays of roads, buildings, geographic fea…

7 Things You Should Know About LMS Alternatives

July 6, 2010

A traditional learning management system (LMS) provides a set of tools to manage learning resources, administrative functions, assessments, and grading. Alternatives to conventional LMSs include…