Teaching

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Teaching

"Listening" with Social Media in the Higher Ed Classroom

Thursday, May 30, 2013 10:45am-11:30am | A session at the Southeast Regional Conference

Smart phones, social media, and students wanting to be connected at all times can provide distractions and challenges in the classroom. This session suggests that students' constant connecti…

Emerging Technologies in the Humanities Classroom

March 13, 2013 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference

Presenters will explore ways emerging technologies can be adapted for the humanities classroom. First, Boston College will share MediaKron, a web-based teaching application developed to allow facul…

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…

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…

Mobile Applications to Improve Teaching and Learning

March 14, 2012 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2012

This panel discussion will focus on the use of mobile applications to improve teaching and learning across Harvard University. Panelists will give a brief overview of how their specific school is d…

Building Teaching with Technology: Structure and Infrastructure

March 13, 2012 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2012

This presentation will describe a successfully implemented staged model for pedagogically based blended learning using the Blackboard LMS and the concurrent institutional changes and community buil…

Transforming Teaching and Learning with Cloud Resources

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

Cloud computing resources like Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine provide students access to a low barrier, high power, creativity-enabling platform on which the future of teaching, learning…

Teaching with the iPad: Cloud Computing for Synchronization and Collaboration

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

This workshop gives teachers a viable starting place in using the iPad as an educational tool by discussing effective cloud computing techniques. The focus is primarily on collaborative and organiz…

Disrupting Ourselves: Cherished Assumptions, New Designs, and the Problem of Learning in Higher Ed - Sponsored by WTC Consulting

January 11, 2012 | A session at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2012

Our concept of learning has expanded at a rate far outpacing our notion of teaching, an issue that applies to the design and delivery of learning experiences. This presentation will look at how thi…

Faculty Engagement with Educational Technology: An Approach That Works

March 30, 2011 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2011

Busy faculty often ignore outreach efforts to incorporate instructional technology into their work. When they do respond, they sometimes enter the conversation with a possible solution that may or …