Teaching

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Teaching

Wikipedia and Academia, Friends at Last: Curricular Initiatives in Higher Education

October 19, 2011 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference

Last January marked the tenth anniversary of Wikipedia, a milestone that finds the open-access encyclopedia as the top-ranked, noncommercial site in the world. Wikipedia has had an impact that is p…

Leveraging the Curriculum Catalog: A University-Wide Strategy

October 19, 2011 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference

The University of South Australia (UniSA) is taking a strategic approach to curriculum management. UniSA's approach complements its implementation of leading-edge student management and learni…

Making an Impact: Collaborating Across Campus to Produce Exemplar Courses

October 14, 2010 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2010 Annual Conference

Ohio State's Digital Union implemented grants to make a departmental impact through teaching and learning with technology. This interactive session shares experiences and lessons learned from …

You Can't Change Learning with That Old Curriculum Management System: Designing the Next-Generation System

November 4, 2009 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2009 Annual Conference

Institutions are adapting to serve a variety of learners and learning styles, developing curricular offerings that are vastly different and more complex than what traditional curriculum management …

Seminar 14A - Quality Online Course Design: Addressing "Wicked Problems"

November 3, 2009 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2009 Annual Conference

"Wicked problems" in online course delivery may be familiar to those who teach or design courses, but they are rarely resolved. Characteristics of such problems include: they cannot be ea…

The Anatomy of a Course Designed Like a Video Game

October 31, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference

As vehicles for learning and development, online courses and computer-based video games share many of the same structural elements. This presentation will analyze an online course taught at UMass B…

Seminar 09P - How to Redesign a Course for Hybrid Delivery PLEASE NOTE: Separate registration and fee is required to attend this seminar.

October 28, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference

Participants will learn the principles of good course design and apply them to a traditional, face-to-face course to be delivered as a hybrid (part online, part F2F) course. Using a modified versio…

Digital Field Assignments: Course Projects for the Net Generation

October 24, 2007 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference

Digital field assignments combine active-learning strategies with digital technologies to engage today's learners in team-based assignments in which students apply classroom concepts as they r…

Creating an Online Course Development Process

October 25, 2007 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference

Tacoma Community College has created an online course development process. The process is designed to support faculty by providing a clear timeline for course development, a discussion of what kind…

Content Catastrophe: The Gap Between Textbooks and Global Real-Time Knowledge Acquisition

October 12, 2006 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2006 Annual Conference

Teaching from a textbook is based on the premises that course materials are static and learning experiences can be standardized. In learner-centered environments in an ever-changing world, content …