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…

Pew Internet Millennials will benefit and suffer due to their hyperconnected lives

February 29, 2012

Teens and young adults brought up from childhood with a continuous connection to each other and to information will be nimble, quick-acting multitaskers who count on the Internet as their extern…

ERIAL Project

August 22, 2011

The Ethnographic Research in Illinois Academic Libraries (ERIAL) Project is a two-year study of the student research process.  The project is funded by an LSTA grant awarded to Northeastern Ill…

Returning the Researcher to the Library: Understanding the Next-Gen User

June 4, 2009

Users’ expectations of information search changed dramatically in the wake of Google and continue to evolve. Some studies point to a slow, but steady disintermediation of the library from the r…

Picture-Perfect Generation: Visually Stimulated or Visually Literate?

September 15, 2008

Today’s youth are visually stimulated, but hardly literate, in engaging in a vocabulary of design and the language of images. To educate and engage this new breed of learners, institutions of h…

Students, Technology, and Learning: Strategies for Success—Proceedings

July 29, 2008

Cosponsored by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), EDUCAUSE, and the University of Central Florida (UCF), the Students, Technology and Learning: Strategies for Su…

Building a More Net-Savvy Campus Culture

June 3, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference 2008

What does it mean for students, faculty, and staff to be “net savvy”? Many are facile with music downloads, word processing, text messaging, or Web 2.0 tools, but are they really technology liter…

Digital Visual Literacy: Interdisciplinary Skills for the 21st-Century Learner

May 6, 2008

As international culture and commerce become increasingly reliant on visual communications, visual literacy has developed into an essential skill for 21st-century college graduates. With advancem…

Designing the Next-Generation Student Technology Fluency Program: TAC 2.0 (Innovative Practice)

January 30, 2008 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2008

In this session, we will discuss our experience at George Mason University in redesigning our student technology fluency program. We will describe the external and internal factors that prompting u…

ELI 2007 Fall Focus Session, Being Net Savvy: Developing Skills for a Rapidly Changing World Video

November 14, 2007

The ELI 2007 Fall Focus Session, Being Net Savvy: Developing Skills for a Rapidly Changing World , explored what it means for students, faculty, and staff to be net savvy, and why it is a cri…