Teaching

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Teaching

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…

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…

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…

A National Primer on K-12 Online Learning (Version 2)

October 1, 2010

The National Primer on K-12 Online Learning provides a comprehensive overview of online learning by examining the basics about online teaching and learning, evaluating academic success, profess…

Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction

January 1, 2011

As digital tools proliferate and improve, solid instruction in the basics will eventually become “flat”—available anywhere globally—and the elements of excellent teaching that ar…

Implementing Online Learning Labs in Schools and Districts: Lessons From Miami-Dade’s First Year

November 1, 2011

A s online learning programs become prevalent in U.S. schools, school and district leaders, teachers, and policy makers are looking for the best ways to use technology to enhance learning. T…

Seizing the Opportunity at the Top: How the U.S. Can Reach Every Student with an Effective Teacher

January 1, 2011

American children deserve the one ingredient we know creates stellar learning results: excellent teachers, consistently. This brief explains why every child needs excellent teachers year after …

3x for all: Extending the Reach of Education’s Best

January 1, 2009

Teacher effectiveness has the largest impact of school effects on student learning, and research indicates that top-quintile teachers produce learning gains three times (3X) that of bottom-quin…