Organizational Issues, Teaching and Learning

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Organizational Issues, Teaching and Learning

Learning and the Massive Open Online Course: A Report on the ELI Focus Session

May 21, 2013

On April 3 and 4, 2013, the ELI teaching and learning community gathered for an online focus session on Learning and the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). This report is a synthesis of the k…

Leading a Multiple Project Mobile Learning Initiative: The Approach at Boise State University

April 9, 2013

Many colleges and universities have launched wide-ranging, device-specific mobile initiatives or invested substantial resources to make services mobile friendly in a platform-neutral manner…

Launching Portmont College

April 1, 2013

Srikant Vasan reveals some of the challenges and goals around starting a new online university. Srikant Vasan reveals some o…

Connected Learning: An Agenda for Research and Design

January 1, 2013

This report is a synthesis of ongoing research, design, and implementation of an approach to education called “connected learning.” It advocates for broadened access to learning that is socia…

SHEEO State Authorization Resources Updated

May 10, 2013

Sharmila Mann, a senior policy analyst at the State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO) association, issued the following announcement this week on SHEEO's freshly updated state au…

Major Higher Ed. Community Developments on State Authorization

April 23, 2013

The higher education community continues to make significant progress toward addressing the problems of distance education state authorization through the development of a state authorization rec…

Fed. Regs. on Student Identity Verification, State Authorization of Distance Ed. Back on the Radar

April 16, 2013

As reported in today's  Inside Higher Ed , the U.S. Department of Education (ED) has announced its intent to modify the rule-making effort  it originally proposed last year  …

California Bill = Path Around Curricular Bottlenecks Through 3rd-Party Online Providers

March 13, 2013

As numerous mainstream and higher education media outlets have reported--for two, see the New York Times and Inside Higher Education --the California state senate president is pois…

Sequester Impacts: Army, Marines Suspend Tuition Assistance

March 11, 2013

The American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) recently reported about another impact of the across-the-board automatic federal budget cuts known as the “sequester" …

"This Place is Awesome!": Program, Service, and Staff Planning for the Center for Science and Social Science Information

March 12, 2013 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference

This session will address how new services, staffing models, and a renovated space were created to support today's interdisciplinary and technology-dependent scholarship. The Yale Science Libr…