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The strategic use of information technology has the ability to transform teaching and learning helping institutions realize EDUCAUSE’s mission of "transforming education through information technologies." All institutions have made educating learners a critical priority. Technology is a means, not an end, toward that goal.

EDUCAUSE focuses on understanding learners, aligning learning principles and practices together and integrating learning technology—all with the goal of improving student success. EDUCAUSE members also benefit from tools and techniques that enable them to deliver high quality academic programs and support services in a flexible manner. The strategic use of information technology can enhance student engagement, improve access, and make services more convenient. As IT is integrated into the academic enterprise, a number of other issues are raised such as financing, policies, faculty involvement, and assessment.

We encourage you to explore EDUCAUSE’s resources on teaching and learning. These include the work of our members as well as material contributed from EDUCAUSE's strategic initiative, the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative. We hope you will find the material of use and encourage you to contribute to future EDUCAUSE activities in teaching and learning.

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Higher Education in the Ultra-Connected Age: April 25, 2013

New forms of scholarship, new educational pathways , and new interconnections and dependencies characterize the digitally rich landscape of higher education today. We are living and workin…
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…
ERIAL Project: August 22, 2011

The Ethnographic Research in Illinois Academic Libraries (ERIAL) Project is a two-year study of the student research process. The project is funded by an LSTA grant awarded to Northeastern Ill…
Returning the Researcher to the Library: Understanding the Next-Gen User: June 4, 2009

Users’ expectations of information search changed dramatically in the wake of Google and continue to evolve. Some studies point to a slow, but steady disintermediation of the library from the r…
Picture-Perfect Generation: Visually Stimulated or Visually Literate?: September 15, 2008

Today’s youth are visually stimulated, but hardly literate, in engaging in a vocabulary of design and the language of images. To educate and engage this new breed of learners, institutions of h…
Students, Technology, and Learning: Strategies for Success—Proceedings: July 29, 2008

Cosponsored by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), EDUCAUSE, and the University of Central Florida (UCF), the Students, Technology and Learning: Strategies for Su…
Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future: January 23, 2008

This study was commissioned by the British Library and JISC to identify how the specialist researchers of the future, currently in their school or pre-school years, are likely to access and inte…
Building a More Net-Savvy Campus Culture: June 3, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference 2008
What does it mean for students, faculty, and staff to be net savvy? Many are facile with music downloads, word processing, text messaging, or Web 2.0 tools, but are they really technology liter…
Digital Visual Literacy: Interdisciplinary Skills for the 21st-Century Learner: May 6, 2008

As international culture and commerce become increasingly reliant on visual communications, visual literacy has developed into an essential skill for 21st-century college graduates. With advancem…
Designing the Next-Generation Student Technology Fluency Program: TAC 2.0 (Innovative Practice): January 30, 2008 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2008
In this session, we will discuss our experience at George Mason University in redesigning our student technology fluency program. We will describe the external and internal factors that prompting u…