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EDUCAUSE Library Items for Students

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…

Adoption of E-Book Readers among College Students: A Survey

September 22, 2011

Author Nancy Foasberg, looks into the use of E-Readers on a college campus.  This article was published in the September 2011 issue of Information Technology and Libraries . To learn whether…

Information Constraints and Financial Aid Policy

February 3, 2012

One justification for public support of higher education is that prospective students, particularly those from underprivileged groups, lack complete information about the costs and benefits of a…

Leveraging Service Blueprinting to Rethink Higher Education

October 31, 2011

In this paper, by authors Amy L. Ostrom, Mary Jo Bitner, Kevin A. Burkhard,  the Center For American Progress takes the position that higher education is a service, or a service system, and…

Enterprise Strategies and Planning Necessary to Deliver On-Demand SaaS for Students and Faculty

May 17, 2012 | A session at the Enterprise IT Leadership Conference 2012

Indiana University, in collaboration with the University of Iowa and the Johns Hopkins Medical School, is demonstrating how software as a service can provide a fresh approach to meet the demands of…

The EDUCAUSE 2011 Core Data Service Report: Highlights and Insights into Higher Education Information Technology

January 31, 2012

Authors: Susan Grajek , Vice President for Data, Research, and Analytics, EDUCAUSE Pam Arroway , Senior Statistician, EDUCAUSE This report summarizes results from the 2011 EDUC…

Engaging Technologies and Reflection to Prepare Students

May 31, 2012 | A session at the Southeast Regional Conference

This presentation will address the topic of engaging technologies and relationships to prepare students for membership in the larger global community. An online undergraduate course in learning tec…

Is Your University Ready for M-Learning? Embracing and Supporting Mobile Devices in Higher Education

May 31, 2012 | A session at the Southeast Regional Conference

This session will address mobile devices in higher education and the issues faced in supporting them. We'll cover survey data from Air University on students' use of mobile devices and se…

lol…OMG!: What Everyone Needs to Know About Online Reputation Management

January 30, 2012

Speaker: Matt Ivester, founder of JuicyCampus and author of lol...OMG! The ease with which digital content can be shared online, in addition to its many benefits, has created a host of…

ECAR National Study of Undergraduates and Information Technology, 2011

December 15, 2011

The EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR) has experienced a groundbreaking year in 2011, with an aggressive research agenda implementing two versions of its annual National Study of Underg…