Millennials

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Millennials

How to Foster Agile Working Groups at Your Institution

January 17, 2013 | A session at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference

Does your staff feel overwhelmed? Always working in crisis mode? Are you looking for ways to empower your staff and go from a reactive to a proactive culture? Investigate the option of agile, sha…

An Urge to Make a Difference in the Lives of Students - Sponsored by Moofwd

January 13, 2012 | A session at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2012

After you have upgraded the software, run the diagnostics, remediated the viruses, and, of course, rebooted the computer, you can still make a difference in students' lives. There is still a…

Learning the Net Generation Way: Reimagining Instruction with Digital Learning Materials

January 12, 2012 | A session at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2012

The "teaching machine" envisioned in the past (i.e., the 1967 film 1999 A.D.) is becoming a reality. We will examine the ability of digital learning materials (i.e., interactive, multimed…

Technology On-Boarding for Millennial Students and Their Families

January 13, 2011 | A session at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2011

The George Washington University has recognized the increasing need to tailor user education to a diverse and multi-generational audience. Millennial students who are transitioning from high school…

"Whatever": Revising Training Methods to Engage the New Generation of Help Desk Student Workers

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

Does your higher education support center employ student workers? If so, when was the last time you evaluated your training procedures? Are you using methods that engage the current generation that…

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…

FITness: A Net Generation Model for Developing Information Fluency Among Faculty and Students

January 10, 2006 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2006

In this session, we present a faculty development model based on fluency in information technology and discuss how it can be effectively adopted at other institutions as a professional development …