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'The World Is Open'

August 25, 2009

Author, Curtis J. Bonk, a professor of instructional systems technology at Indiana University, explains themes of new book about how technology and "open access" ideas are changing educ…

"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…

"Hey, Check Out My Wiki!" Faculty Wikis Created for Us, by Us

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

Institutions are grappling with the challenge of integrating technology into teaching and learning while generating faculty involvement. This presentation will showcase a wiki created by two facult…

"I'll Have What She's Having": Generating New Reference Questions by Blogging Old Ones

January 7, 2009 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2009

Increased off-site reference traffic has prompted the need for good tracking mechanisms, but why keep the subject of the reference question a secret? Why not use one researcher's question to a…

"Listening" with Social Media in the Higher Ed Classroom

May 30, 2013 | A session at the Southeast Regional Conference

Smart phones, social media, and students wanting to be connected at all times can provide distractions and challenges in the classroom. This session suggests that students' constant connection…

"Twitterpated" by Twitter and Other Web 2.0 Technologies for Instructional Purposes

March 10, 2009 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2009

This presentation will highlight and demonstrate ways in which freely available technologies like Twitter were used in a summer online course and can be used to enhance instruction. Tools will be d…

"Where Do You Learn?": Tweeting to Inform Learning Space Development

March 26, 2009

By Elizabeth J. Aspden and Louise P. Thorpe Emerging technologies and applications can extend traditional approaches to data generation and can be used effectively in institutional plan…

2004 Information Format Trends: Content, Not Containers

January 1, 2004

This report examines the "unbundling of content" from traditional containers (books, journals, CDs) and distribution methods (postal mail, resource sharing). As the boundaries blur betwee…

2005 Horizon Report

January 1, 2005

The 2005 Horizon Report, highlights six technologies that the underlying research suggests will become very important to higher education over the next one to five years. A central focus of th…

2006 Horizon Report

January 1, 2006

The annual Horizon Report is a collaborative effort between the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). Each year, the report identifies and describes six areas of …