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EDUCAUSE Library Items for Students

Increasing Student Success: Evaluating the Effectiveness of U-Pace Instruction at UWM

September 6, 2012

Two faculty at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee developed the technology-enabled instructional approach known as U-Pace , which combines self-paced, mastery-based learning with in…

GoSoapBox Classroom Response System Engages Students

November 1, 2012

Key Takeaways This case study explores the use of a classroom response system in Spanish language classes that seemed too small to benefit from the approach. A surve…

Leading the Student Experience: Super-Convergence of Organisation, Structure and Business Processes

April 27, 2012

This group of case studies from the United Kingdom organization, Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, focuses on the UK higher education student experience.  "The student experience …

Analytics in Progress: Technology Use, Student Characteristics, and Student Achievement

August 13, 2012

John Whitmer is Associate Director of the LMSS Project at the CSU Chancellor's Office, Kathy Fernandes is Director of the LMSS Project at the CSU Chancellor's O…

Executive Summary: Student Mobile Computing Practices -- Lessons Learned from Qatar

August 13, 2012

Eden Dahlstrom is a Senior Research Analyst at EDUCAUSE. Mobile computing is transforming information technology and the student learning environment in higher education. Inst…

An Open Letter to Students: You're the Game Changer in Next-Generation Learning

July 18, 2012

  Mark David Milliron is Chancellor, Western Governors University (WGU) Texas.   In reading the recently published EDUCAUSE e-book Game Changers: Education and Information Tech…

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…

Smartphones for Learning: The Yin and the Yang

November 8, 2012 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2012 Annual Conference

Over 3,000 students participated in a research study at Seneca College that explored their perceptions about the ways in which their smartphones could be used as learning tools. This session will h…

ERO Podcast: Chief of Staff for the Khan Academy, Jessica Yuen

September 5, 2012

In this podcast, we talk with Chief of Staff for the Khan Academy, Jessica Yuen. In our conversation, she discusses the Khan Academy's use of analytics, attitude toward affordability for stu…

Podcast: Analytics Examined

August 14, 2012

Clifford Lynch is executive director for the Coalition for Networked Information. Gardner Campbell is director for professional development and innovative initiatives at Virginia Tech. In this po…