Social Media

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Social Media

From Standardized to Personalized: A Trajectory for Mobile Learning

August 6, 2012

Join the ELI’s Malcolm Brown, director, and Veronica Diaz, associate director, as they moderate this webinar with William Rankin. For almost five centuries, our educational structures and pract…

Lightning Round: Online Learning

February 23, 2012

3:20 PM - 3:33 PM A 3D Rubric for Creating and Auditing Online Courses: Criteria and Methods to Guide Course Development Efforts Stephen Gance, Portland State University This presen…

Video Primers in an Online Repository for e-Teaching & Learning

December 28, 2010

Instructional Consulting presents Dr. Curt Bonk, Professor in Instructional Systems Technology, Indiana University, in a video series addressing the design and best practices of Distance Educati…

7 Things You Should Know About Privacy in Web 2.0 Learning Environments

September 7, 2010

New media, social networking, collaboration sites, image and video-sharing sites, wikis, and blogs offer tremendous teaching and learning opportunities to educators and students, but their use ra…

Teaching Without Walls: Life Beyond the Lecture

September 14, 2009

Malcolm Brown , EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative director, will moderate this web seminar with Michelle Pacansky-Brock , where she’ll pull back the curtain on the classroom of the future, exp…

Harnessing Social Networking Tools to Build Connectivity and Learning Community in Online Courses

November 5, 2009 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2009 Annual Conference

Research indicates that one of most frequent complaints in online classes is poor communication with the instructor. We also know that the ability to build online learning community and connection …

Implementing Wiki-Based Collaborative Strategies in Online Courses (Research-based)

January 21, 2009 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2009

Research from the University of Central Florida shows that faculty and students had a positive overall experience using wikis as a collaborative tool for online classes. The wiki technology improve…

Social Learning Using Cell Phone Technology at Montclair State University

January 17, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2008

Social learning enhances knowledge when students create learning environments by making connections among their peers and community. Educators struggle to develop innovative teaching strategies to …

Second Life: Reaching into the Virtual World for Real-World Learning

August 14, 2007

This research bulletin examines the current state of Second Life in relation to the educational environment. Although literature about virtual worlds dates back many years, this bulletin reflects…

Reflecting, Writing, and Responding: Reasons Students Blog

January 1, 2007

Faculty and students are recognizing blogging's learning potential, including the chance to practice writing, reflect on others' thinking, and respond to critical analyses of one's…