Learners

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Learners

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.   …

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: …

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 2012 Annual Conference

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…

Interactive Learning Online at Public Universities: Evidence from Randomized Trials

June 11, 2012

In this report published by ITHAKA S+R , They measure the effect on learning outcomes of a prototypical interactive learning online (ILO) statistics course by randomly assigning students on six p…

Learning Analytics: Using Big Data to Predict Student Success

June 11, 2012

Join Malcolm Brown, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative director, and Veronica Diaz, ELI associate director, as they moderate this webinar with Sebastian Diaz and Hae Okimoto on a multi-institutional pr…

Academic Completion in a Lifelong Learning Universe: What's That?

November 9, 2012 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2012 Annual Conference

Information technology is having a profound impact on our ability to support improved persistence, attainment, and completion for adult learners. Improved metrics, reduced time to and cost of deg…