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Learning science research and practical experience highlight the importance of interaction and engagement to successful learning. Active and collaborative learning environments are particularly effective for Net Generation learners. Games, simulations, group projects, and undergraduate research are among a number of models for interaction and engagement being explored.

Articles and Reports

The entire issue of the EDUCAUSE Quarterly Magazine, Volume 32, Number 4, 2009 is devoted to student engagement.
Engaging Students with Engaging Tools, EDUCAUSE Quarterly Magazine, Volume 32, Number 4, 2009
Learning Space Design with an Inclusive Planning Process Promotes User Engagement,EDUCAUSE Quarterly Magazine, Volume 32, Number 4, 2009
Assessing the Future: E-Portfolio Trends, Uses, and Options in Higher Education, ECAR Bulletin, February 2009.
Assessment for Improvement: Tracking Student Engagement Over Time, Annual Results 2009, National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), November 2009
ELI 7 Things You Should Know About...
- Next-Generation Presentation Tools, January 2010
- Google Wave, November 2009
- Live Question Tool, April 2009
- Alternate Reality Games, January 2009
- Ustream, October 2008
- Wii, July 2008
- Second Life, June 2008
- Digital Storytelling, January 2007

Podcasts, Presentations and Videos

Continuous Improvement in Teaching and Learning: Open Learning Initiative (OLI) and Open Learning Net (OLnet), ELI Web Seminar, January 11, 2010
Clickers and Peer Instruction: A Powerful Way to Improve Student Engagement and Learning, but Only If You Do It Right ELI Web Seminar, October 05, 2009
GameQuest: Creating an Education Game Program for Higher Ed, presentation and podcast from the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, October 2008
Digital Story Making: Understanding the Learner's Perspective, presentation and video from the ELI Annual Conference, January 2008

Updated January 2010

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Teaching and Learning Experiences in a User-Created Virtual World: October 25, 2007 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference
Second Life is a user-created virtual world simultaneously played by thousands of people around the world. In this session, we'll share our experiences of teaching in Second Life. Using the in…
Transforming Earth Sciences via Next-Generation Internet Linkages Between the Oceans and Classrooms, Laboratories, and Living Rooms - Sponsored by Adobe Systems, Inc., An EDUCAUSE Silver Partner: October 24, 2007 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference
New technologies and infrastructure that extend bandwidth and power to the seafloor are being developed within the Ocean Observatories Initiative of the National Science Foundation. A major compone…
Engineering Informatics for Bio-Inspired Robots: October 16, 2007

Engineering Informatics for Bio-Inspired Robots is an NSF-funded project trying to break down barriers to collaboration between engineering and computer science departments. Faculty members parti…
The nanoHUB: Community and Collaboration: October 19, 2007

EDUCAUSE Review , vol. 42, no. 6 (November/December 2007): 144–145 The nanoHUB: Community and Collaboration Carie Windham Carie Windham is Student Relations Advisor for the ED…
Emerging Worlds: Transformative Technologies for Teaching and Learning: September 17, 2007

Web 2.0 projects have rapidly expanded into a world of social media. From blogs to podcasts, millions of people have published and shared a growing amount of digital content. At the same time vir…
CyberBridges—An Authentic Learning Case Study: September 14, 2007

CyberBridges trains graduate students how to use cyberinfrastructure (CI) -- a combination of computing systems, applications, and virtual organizations. Supported by NSF, CyberBridges hinges on …
7 Things You Should Know About Cyberinfrastructure: August 20, 2007

Cyberinfrastructure is not a new technology, per se, or merely a better, faster Internet. While cyberinfrastructure brings together high-performance computing, remote sensors, large data sets, mi…
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…
Web 2.0: Big app on campus: August 31, 2007

Many educators "see the enticement of notoriety through Web 2.0-style social tools--blogs, wikis and the like--as a way to engage students in their education and maybe even get them to choos…
nanoHUB - An Authentic Learning Case Study: August 9, 2007

nanoHUB is an online portal for nanotechnology researchers, instructors, and students created by Purdue University and the National Science Foundation. It uses cyberinfrastructure to provide acce…