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EDUCAUSE Library Items for Learning

Student Engagement through Online Commenting and Discussion

October 2, 2012 | A session at the ELI Online Fall Focus Session 2012

NowComment, a free high-end tool for discussion and close reading of online documents, has been used successfully at UVA (Sakai) and other universities for the past three years. This presentation…

Using Learner Analytics to Identify and Promote Effective Teaching Practices

April 11, 2012 | A session at the ELI 2012 Online Spring Focus Session

UMBC's most active LMS course requires students to pass preclass quizzes before accessing and submitting later assignments. Consequently, student activity has skyrocketed, and scores are 20%…

Evidence of Impact: Assessing Learning Innovations, Practices, Technologies

February 14, 2012 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative 2012 Annual Meeting

Join us for this learning circle on evidence of impact, where these questions will guide our discussion: *What instruments or methods are you using to assess learning innovations, practices, and t…

An App a Day...

February 14, 2012 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative 2012 Annual Meeting

With over 40 applications from mobile to media, geo to social, Google Apps for education is a lot more than e-mail, calendaring, and docs. This session will highlight Case Western Reserve Universit…

Improving Student Attitudes toward Online Collaboration

February 13, 2012 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative 2012 Annual Meeting

Student responses on end-of-course surveys in social work courses communicated frustration with online teamwork assignments. Recognition of the value of effective collaboration suggested the need f…

Toward Social Learning in Blended Learning Faculty Fellows Program (Pilot Program/Emerging Technology)

February 14, 2011 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2011

At Pepperdine's Graziadio School of Business and Management, a Blended Learning Faculty Fellows program is in its second year to support, incentivize, and propagate social learning while incre…

"Bag It and Tag It": Implementing a Course-Level Learning Portfolio Using CMS-Based Tools to Document Student Learning When Teaching in Wild, Open Spaces with Cloud-Based Tools (Pilot Program/Emerging Technology)

February 14, 2011 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2011

As more of us adopt cloud-based tools (e.g., blogs, wikis, Google Docs, etc.) for use by students in authentic learning activities, we find ourselves without the student-produced artifacts that we …

As Learners Move into the Open: Obstacles to Overcome, Strategies for Success, and Potential for Participatory Learning (Research-Based)

February 16, 2011 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2011

This presentation will highlight results from two research studies conducted between 2008 and 2010 on social media use for learning. Participants were undergraduate and graduate students in a Schoo…

Collaborative Learning and Transmedia Teaching (Pilot Program/Emerging Technology)

February 14, 2011 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2011

In this session we explain, demonstrate, and discuss a course we co-teach at the University of Oregon that uses the WordPress MultiUser platform as a framework for creating a dynamic, collaborative…

"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…