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EDUCAUSE Library Items for Students

Linking E-Portfolios to Information and Technological Literacy

January 16, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2008

Electronic portfolios have become a means for students to demonstrate and reflect on learning in a way that helps them build and apply information- and technology-literacy skills. This session will…

ELI 2007 Fall Focus Session, Being Net Savvy: Developing Skills for a Rapidly Changing World Video

November 14, 2007

The ELI 2007 Fall Focus Session, Being Net Savvy: Developing Skills for a Rapidly Changing World , explored what it means for students, faculty, and staff to be net savvy, and why it is a cri…

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…

Introducing the Undergraduate Learner to Independent Learning Through Targeted Transferable Skills Acquisition

January 24, 2007 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2007

Facilitating acquisition of independent learning skills via a course management system raises questions of effectiveness, student endorsement, and the transferability of the acquired competencies. …

7 Things You Should Know About Google Earth

October 15, 2006

Google Earth is an interactive mapping application that allows users to navigate (or "fly") the entire globe, viewing satellite imagery with overlays of roads, buildings, geographic fea…

Student Use of Classroom IT: Convenience, Communications, and Control

January 24, 2005 | A session at the NLII Annual Conference 2005

What kinds of information technologies do students use? How does this use contribute to their undergraduate experience? An ECAR study involving 4,374 students at13 higher education institutions fin…

ELI Podcast: From Knowledgeable to Knowledge-able: Experiments in New Media Literacy

January 26, 2009

This hour-long podcast features a keynote speech by Michael Wesch , Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Kansas State University. The presentation, " From Knowledgeable to Knowl…