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EDUCAUSE Library Items for Learning

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…

Connecting Digital Literacies for All Learners: Employing Universal Design for Learning through Mobile Technologies

February 15, 2012 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative 2012 Annual Meeting

This poster session explores the changing literacy landscape in college classrooms utilizing a Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework. Participants will examine instructional activities desi…

How Does Social Media Improve Learning Outcomes?

March 26, 2012 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2012

Engaging students and facilitating two-way communication beyond the classroom is one of today's common challenges. Please join us to learn about ConnectYard, the premier social media platform …

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…

Disrupting Ourselves: Cherished Assumptions, New Designs, and the Problem of Learning in Higher Ed - Sponsored by WTC Consulting

January 11, 2012 | A session at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2012

Our concept of learning has expanded at a rate far outpacing our notion of teaching, an issue that applies to the design and delivery of learning experiences. This presentation will look at how thi…

"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…

Learner Self-Engagement in Web 2.0 Participatory Learning Environments (Research-Based)

February 15, 2011 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2011

Learners benefit from blogs and wikis when their use is scaffolded by the instructor and/or course requirements. But if these prompts are missing or poorly designed, will learners self-activate usi…

Cognitive Surplus or the Lonely Shallows: Is the Internet Making Us Stupid?

October 13, 2010 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2010 Annual Conference

At last, everyone is prepared to admit that the Internet has changed the world. Some think it's a change for the better, with truly revolutionary possibilities for advancing civilization. Othe…