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EDUCAUSE Library Items for Learning

Making Change: Using Evidence to Improve Student Learning and Success

April 14, 2011 | A session at the ELI 2011 Online Spring Focus Session

Given the press to demonstrate quality, there is reason to turn greater attention to the extent to which institutions are using data to improve student learning and success, gauging the impact of…

Envisioning Computer Labs as Collaborative Learning Environments (Pilot Program/Emerging Technology)

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

What is the future of computer labs, as needs move from rows of desktops to versatile spaces that better support diverse learners and activities? The University of Minnesota worked with DEGW to con…

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…

Gathering Evidence to Make an Impact: How Less Can Be More

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

Gathering evidence on the effectiveness of current practice and innovations is necessary but of limited value if it does not also make an impact. Far too often, effective programs wither and die, a…

"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…

The Problem of Learning in the Postcourse Era

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

Higher education teaching practices (and curricula) sit at the potentially tense convergence of the power of experiential, ubiquitous and social learning on the one hand and rising pressure to asse…

Student Learning in a Flexible World: Creating Opportunities with E-Books and Collaborative Learning Spaces (Pilot Program/Emerging Technology)

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

This session will present data from an assessment of a large-scale adoption of a custom e-book and implementation of collaborative learning classrooms. The presenters will share the results of 1,10…