Teaching

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Teaching

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…

Making Mastery Work: A Close-Up View of Competency Education

November 1, 2012

“Making Mastery Work: A Close-Up View of Competency Education” highlights the work of ten schools participating in the Proficiency-Based Pathways Project (PBP). Led by the Nellie Mae Ed…

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…

Cultivating Change in the Academy: 50+ Stories from the Digital Frontlines at the University of Minnesota in 2012

July 9, 2012

Cultivating Change is an eBook designed to stimulate discussion about what’s possible as well as generate new vision and academic technology direction. It serves as a means for faculty, ins…

Practical Guidelines for Using Technology Tools in Classroom Teaching

March 1, 2011

This site provides practical guidelines for using technology in teaching . They may help you manage technology-supported teaching more effectively, avoiding some of the common pitfalls. …

Video Primers in an Online Repository for e-Teaching & Learning

December 28, 2010

Instructional Consulting presents Dr. Curt Bonk, Professor in Instructional Systems Technology, Indiana University, in a video series addressing the design and best practices of Distance Educati…

The Human Element

March 29, 2010

A community college professor says he has built a learning management system with a personal touch that could solve one of distance education's most persistent problems. …

Insidious pedagogy: How course management systems affect teaching

October 29, 2009

Course management systems, like any other technology, have an inherent purpose implied in their design, and therefore a built–in pedagogy. Although these pedagogies are based on instructivist p…

Med School, High Tech

July 23, 2009

New medical schools are launching curriculums with more use of simulation and more social science -- and many established schools are moving in that direction, too. …

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…