Teaching

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Teaching

Teaching with Technology

Teaching with Technology True In this age of BYOD, it is …

Using Analytics at UMBC: Encouraging Student Responsibility and Identifying Effective Course Designs

April 30, 2013

Higher education invests considerable resources into technology for academic purposes, but understanding whether those instructional technologies improve learning is often a difficult questio…

Who Are Our Students? Bridging Local and Global Learning Communities

April 3, 2013 | A session at the ELI Online Spring Focus Session: Learning and the MOOC

During the first week of March 2013, about 80,000 new students were added to the Vanderbilt University community, thanks to the launch of Vanderbilt's first two MOOCs. MOOCs, our own as well a…

Faculty Perspective: Teaching the Humanities to Humanity

April 3, 2013 | A session at the ELI Online Spring Focus Session: Learning and the MOOC

In this session, the speaker will address the mix of excitement and caution that have characterized his experience teaching online, first in a small online class and then in a massive one. He will …

Bigfoot, Goldilocks, and Moonshots: A Report from the Frontiers of Personalized Learning

April 1, 2013

The creativity of higher education innovators has produced three categories of solutions with the potential to break the "iron triangle" of cost, quality, and access.   …

Connected Learning: An Agenda for Research and Design

January 1, 2013

This report is a synthesis of ongoing research, design, and implementation of an approach to education called “connected learning.” It advocates for broadened access to learning that is socia…

Culture Shift: Teaching in a Learner-Centered Environment Powered by Digital Learning

May 1, 2012

This report from the Alliance for Excellent Education outlines the primary components of a learner-centered environment, the role of the teacher in a learner-centered environment, and the imp…

Overcoming Hurdles to Social Media in Education

April 1, 2013

Key Takeaways According to a recent study, 100 percent of colleges and universities surveyed use social media , but instructors use it far less for teaching than they do for per…

Blazing the Trail in Texas: Work in Progress on the Texas Affordable Baccalaureate

April 25, 2013

  “What we’re talking about is a different satisfactory academic progress model than most of you are used to,” said project leader Van Davis to a large group of faculty from the two Tex…

Adoption, Pedagogy, and Analytics: Exploring Two Years of Institutional Blog Data

January 7, 2013

For more than a decade, educators and scholars have explored, researched, and implemented blogs in academic settings in a wide variety of ways. Many uses of blogs are still common in academia…