Learners

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Learners

7 Things You Should Read About Badges

May 29, 2013

Badges represent a way of acknowledging achievements or skill acquisition more granular than a college degree. The resources below provide an overview of the uses of badges and their im…

Higher Education in the Ultra-Connected Age

April 25, 2013

New forms of scholarship, new educational pathways , and new interconnections and dependencies characterize the digitally rich landscape of higher education today. We are living and workin…

Bigfoot, Goldilocks, and Moonshots: A Report from the Frontiers of Personalized Learning

April 1, 2013

The creativity of higher education innovators has produced three categories of solutions with the potential to break the "iron triangle" of cost, quality, and access.   …

The Survey Says: A Fresh Look at Digital Natives

February 12, 2013 | A session at the West/Southwest Regional Conference

Differing perceptions between digital immigrants and natives makes it difficult to provide services that meet students' needs. Four years ago, Rice University embarked on a longitudinal analys…

ERO Video Conversation: Teaching the Net Generation

November 1, 2012

Three instructional designers discuss how the net generation’s immersion into social media is changing the way instructors must teach and assess students: …

How to Foster Agile Working Groups at Your Institution

January 17, 2013 | A session at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference

Does your staff feel overwhelmed? Always working in crisis mode? Are you looking for ways to empower your staff and go from a reactive to a proactive culture? Investigate the option of agile, sha…

Learning Analytics: Moving from Concept to Practice

July 19, 2012

This ELI Brief describes the evolution of learning analytics (LA) over the past year, drawing on two major recent conferences devoted to the theme of learning analytics: the ELI 2012 Spring F…

Analytics in Progress: Technology Use, Student Characteristics, and Student Achievement

August 13, 2012

John Whitmer is Associate Director of the LMSS Project at the CSU Chancellor's Office, Kathy Fernandes is Director of the LMSS Project at the CSU Chancellor's O…

Blueprint for Change in an Era of Rapid Reinvention - Sponsored by Higher One

November 8, 2012 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2012

Nations face an educational imperative: Educate more people, better, faster, and with higher quality. But a single model will not suffice. Education is a complex, adaptive system involving learne…

An Open Letter to Students: You're the Game Changer in Next-Generation Learning

July 18, 2012

  Mark David Milliron is Chancellor, Western Governors University (WGU) Texas.   In reading the recently published EDUCAUSE e-book Game Changers: Education and Information Tech…