Teaching

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Teaching

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…

Engaging Stakeholders in Pilot Evaluations

October 3, 2012 | A session at the ELI Online Fall Focus Session 2012

What happened? Was the pilot a success? What should the next steps be? Understanding what matters to key stakeholders is essential to establishing the focus and direction of the evaluation. Their…

Simple Works: Why Technology Innovation Means More of Less

October 3, 2012 | A session at the ELI Online Fall Focus Session 2012

Moving from pilot to production means scaling quickly. A successful technology pilot translates to a user base that's ready for more. The faster you can fulfill user needs, the more momentum…

What's Next for Emerging Technologies That Support Teaching and Learning?

October 3, 2012 | A session at the ELI Online Fall Focus Session 2012

Over the last 20 years, faculty and students have found innovative and effective ways to use the Internet for teaching and learning. Learning management systems have evolved to include cloud and …

Game-Based Learning: Developing an Institutional Strategy

August 9, 2012

Games have become a central component of our culture generally, and they have begun to assume a role in higher education, though typically only on a small scale. Several key trends will drive the…

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: Teaching in an Age of Plenty

November 24, 2012

Speaker: Theodore Gray, Co-founder, Wolfram Research, Inc. The practice and profession of teaching developed in the presence of a great scarcity of knowledge. Ubiquitous information and ever m…

An iPad Initiative: Adoption, Support, and Implementation

November 7, 2012 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2012 Annual Conference

University of Richmond academic technology consultants have been experimenting with how the iPad can be used effectively as a teaching and learning tool. We will discuss and examine the design, d…

Seminar 14P - Using Pedagogy to Effectively Leverage Technology in Online and Blended Courses (separate registration required)

November 6, 2012 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2012 Annual Conference

Emerging technologies have been heralded as providing the opportunity to transform education, learning, and teaching, yet the picture of how such technologies is used is fuzzy. What instructional t…

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 …