Teaching

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Teaching

Educating the Net Generation: A Handbook of Findings for Practice and Policy

June 18, 2009

It has been widely suggested, and in some respects accepted, that a so-called Net Generation of students is passing through our universities. Born roughly between 1980 and 1994 these students h…

Hypermedia and Discovery Based Learning: What Value?

January 1, 2005

"In 1992, the author published a paper entitled 'Hypermedia and discovery based learning: A historical perspective'. It traced the swings in the history of educational thinking betwe…

Video Games and the Future of Learning

January 1, 2004

Will video games change the way we learn? We argue here for a particular view of games—and of learning—as activities that are most powerful when they are personally meaningful, experiential, so…

Engines of Inquiry: Teaching, Technology, and Learner-Centered Approaches to Culture and History

January 1, 2004

As Leo Marx pointed out a long time ago, rhetoric of the "technological sublime" is an American tradition, and though it first emerged in response to the inventions of the Industrial Revo…

Supporting Different Learning Styles in an Online Learning Environment: Does it Really Matter in the Long Run?

January 1, 2005

It is imperative that researchers examine attrition from a longitudinal perspective. This paper describes such an effort. This study was conducted at a large, private, metropolitan university in so…