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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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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. …
Learning Analytics: Moving from Concept to Practice: July 19, 2012

This ELI Brief describes the evolution of learning analytics (LA) over the past year, drawing on two major recent conferences devoted to the theme of learning analytics: the ELI 2012 Spring F…
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…
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…
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…
For the Next Generation: October 7, 2010

© 2010 Diana G. Oblinger. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ ). …
The Impending Demise of the University: June 29, 2009

"In the industrial model of student mass production, the teacher is the broadcaster. A broadcast is by definition the transmission of information from transmitter to receiver in a one-way, l…
Action Analytics: Measuring and Improving Performance That Matters in Higher Education: January 18, 2008

© 2008 Donald Norris, Linda Baer, Joan Leonard, Louis Pugliese, and Paul Lefrere EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 43, no. 1 (January/February 2008): 42–67 Donald Norris, Linda Baer, Joan Leonar…
Online Nation: Five Years of Growth in Online Learning: October 24, 2007

Online Nation: Five Years of Growth in Online Learning represents the fifth annual report on the state of online learning in U.S. higher education. This year’s study, like those for t…
Facelifts for the Facebook Generation: September 14, 2007

Institutions of higher education are increasingly turning to web 2.0 technologies such as facebook, blogging, podcasting and photo sharing sites to market their schools to the net generation. …