Teaching

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Teaching

E-Textbook Opportunities and Decisions

March 19, 2013 | A session at the Midwest Regional Conference

Institutions are faced with many options for dealing with e-textbooks. University of Wisconsin–Madison has participated in e-textbook pilots for two semesters and has developed a set of instituti…

Technology Enhancement Tools in an Undergraduate Biology Course

December 10, 2012

Key Takeaways This single-class study sought to evaluate technology-enhanced student engagement by comparing the experiences of students using only an e-textbook with the exper…

Using Flickr for Media-Rich Classes

October 3, 2012

Key Takeaways When teaching and learning revolve around images, the way that a learning management system buries images as a discussion develops hinders the image flow so cruci…

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…

Podcast: Wake Forest University's BioBook

July 17, 2012

In this podcast we interview the creators of BioBook, a scalable e-text embodying six central principles of learning. It is organized into self-contained "nodes" that can be revised or …

Case Study 12: Georgetown University: Web Conferencing—A Critical Skill for the Connected World

May 2, 2012

A case study from Game Changers Pablo G. Molina Information technologies provide new ways of doing established activities, and they can create new opportunities to do things that we…

New Directions: Faculty Use of Technology and Attitudes Toward Library Research Instruction

March 27, 2012 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2012

This session will report the findings of a survey administered to Western Michigan University teaching faculty in 2011 regarding their use of instructional technology and their attitudes toward lib…

Seminar 14A - Teaching and Learning with Social and Digital Media in Higher Education PLEASE NOTE: Separate registration and fee is required to attend this seminar.

October 18, 2011 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference

Social and digital media are changing the way we live and the way our students learn and interact with each other, and with us. As leaders in higher education, we need to not only be aware of these…

Openness to Integrating Technology: Assessing Faculty and Student Perceptions and Attitudes (Research-Based)

February 16, 2011 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2011

This session will focus on the sharing of research results that an interdisciplinary team conducted to investigate faculty and students' use of and attitudes toward digital media, particularly…

Podcast: Transforming Higher Education with Emerging Technologies

March 20, 2012

This talk by the Timothy E. Wirth Professor of Learning Technologies at Harvard University, Chris Dede , describes how we can transform teaching and learning to prepare students with the …