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EDUCAUSE Library Items for Students

How Teens Do Research in the Digital World

November 1, 2012

According to a survey of teachers, conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project in collaboration with the College Board and the National Writing Project, the inte…

Project Information Literacy Research Report: “Learning Curve”

October 16, 2012

Qualitative findings about the information-seeking behavior of today’s college graduates as they transition from the campus to the workplace. Included are findings from interviews with 23 US em…

Connect, Collaborate, and Communicate: A Report from the Value of Academic Libraries Summits

June 6, 2012

As part of ACRL’s Value of Academic Libraries Initiative, a multiyear project designed to assist academic librarians in demonstrating library value, ACRL joined with three partners—the Associ…

A Systems Approach: Expanding Access and Achieving Student Success through Support Services at Rio Salado College

March 12, 2012

This report covers how Rio Salado College (RSC) in Tempe, Arizona provides a full slate of support services to its online learners. The report was designed to capture the essence of a rela…

Pew Internet Millennials will benefit and suffer due to their hyperconnected lives

February 29, 2012

Teens and young adults brought up from childhood with a continuous connection to each other and to information will be nimble, quick-acting multitaskers who count on the Internet as their extern…

How College Students Seek Information in the Digital Age

December 2, 2009

A report of findings from 2,318 respondents to a survey carried out among college students on six campuses distributed across the U.S. in the spring of 2009, as part of Project Information Litera…

Student Expectations Study

July 25, 2007

These are key findings from online research and discussion evenings held in June 2007 for the Joint Information Systems Committee. The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) commissioned Ips…

Faculty Integration of Technology into Instruction and Students' Perceptions of Computer Technology to Improve Student Learning

October 11, 2007

There has been a remarkable improvement in access and rate of adoption of technology in higher education. Even so, reports indicate that faculty members are not integrating technology into instr…

Why Johnny Can't Search (Intelligently)

January 1, 2007

Diana G. Oblinger, Vice President of EDUCAUSE, discusses the importance of critical thinking skills and the current ways information literacy is being taught in higher education. …