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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.   …

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…

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…

Unleashing the Potential of Technology in Education

August 1, 2012

The long-promised technology revolution in education is now possible—but hardly inevitable. Educators and policymakers must act today to unleash the potential of technology to improve instruc…

Matchbook Learning

November 28, 2012

This middle school model operated by Matchbook Learning Solutions puts teachers at the center . Matchbook believes that teacher quality, when combined with innovations in technology and a focu…

Next-Generation Learning: What Is It? And Will It Work?

February 6, 2013 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting

The explosion of online educational resources, more powerful learning platforms, learner analytics, and MOOCs is changing higher education. Unfortunately, research on the effectiveness of differe…

Learning Sciences and Learning Analytics: Time for a Marriage - Sponsored by Starin

February 5, 2013 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting

Over the past several decades, the interdisciplinary field of the learning sciences has developed a substantial body of theory, research, and design guidelines that can be leveraged for the emerg…

Match Education: Match Next

November 28, 2012

A teaching fellow guides a small group of students while a master teacher circulates the room to provide feedback, support, and to pull out students for additional instruction in this high-touc…