Learners

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Learners

The Changing Fabric of Higher Education: What Lies Ahead?

January 14, 2010 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2010

Change has become the fabric of our daily work. Change impacts economics, demographics, technologies, the profession (for example, new blended professionals), the needs of millennial students and t…

Student Perceptions of Second Life

November 6, 2009

In this virtual lightning round, attendees will hear from three different campuses about the ways they've integrated technology into the curriculum to foster student success. This session wil…

Are learning style preferences of health science students predictive of their attitudes towards e-learning?

September 24, 2009

The objective for this study was to determine whether learning style preferences of health science students could predict their attitudes to e-learning. A survey comprising the Index of Learnin…

New ELI 7 Things... Explores Challenge-Based Learning

January 18, 2012

Challenge-based learning (CBL)   is similar to problem-based learning, but with CBL, students formulate the challenges they will address. Through a process of discussion and research, …

Providing Auditory and Visual Assessment to Students

June 1, 2009 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference 2009

Providing students with rich feedback and meaningful assessment serves their formative and summative pedagogical needs. Using auditory and visual assessment, coupled with traditional handwritten fe…

Meet the "Free Agent" Learner: Coming to Your Campus Soon! Are You Ready?

November 4, 2009 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2009 Annual Conference

Since 2003, the Speak Up National Research Project has collected authentic feedback on education and technology from 1.3 million K–12 students. Learn about the expectations of today's digita…

Seminar 16P - Top-Ten Ways to Improve Student Learning Using Technology Outside the Classroom

November 3, 2009 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2009 Annual Conference

Technology is the most powerful way to increase your nontechnological interaction with students in the classroom. We will explore 10 easy ways for faculty to take advantage of technology to improve…

Seminar 15P - Security Awareness for the Net Generation

November 3, 2009 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2009 Annual Conference

While today's students are more knowledgeable and comfortable with the Internet and computer technology than previous generations, they do not necessarily have the skills or exhibit behaviors …

Educating the Net Generation: A Handbook of Findings for Practice and Policy

June 18, 2009

It has been widely suggested, and in some respects accepted, that a so-called Net Generation of students is passing through our universities. Born roughly between 1980 and 1994 these students h…

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…