Training

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Training

Blended Learning Implementation Guide

February 5, 2013

Digital Learning Now! (DLN) released "The Blended Learning Implementation Guide," the fifth DLN Smart Series paper, for leaders who are ready seize the opp…

Seizing the Opportunity at the Top: How the U.S. Can Reach Every Student with an Effective Teacher

January 1, 2011

American children deserve the one ingredient we know creates stellar learning results: excellent teachers, consistently. This brief explains why every child needs excellent teachers year after …

3x for all: Extending the Reach of Education’s Best

January 1, 2009

Teacher effectiveness has the largest impact of school effects on student learning, and research indicates that top-quintile teachers produce learning gains three times (3X) that of bottom-quin…

Introduce Facilitation in Your Next Testing Initiative

January 28, 2013

Key Takeaways A facilitated testing program uses a three-stage approach that motivates testers to actively engage with a system by first introducing the expected changes and th…

Preparing the Masses for Yet Another LMS Migration: How BU Used a Crowdsourcing Concept to Train 4,000 Faculty and Thrived

March 12, 2013 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference

LMS migrations for an institution of any size can be a challenge when it comes to training. While there may never be "one size fits all" solution to any problem, at Boston University we f…

Teaching Fishing; or, Empowering Users with Technology

February 13, 2013 | A session at the West/Southwest Regional Conference

"Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll eat for a lifetime." This session will discuss the issues of "teaching fishing" (in relation …

A Smorgasbord of Staff Development Programs: Helping You Choose which Are Right for Your Organization

January 16, 2013 | A session at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference

We will describe staff development programs and opportunities available for our IT organization as a "smorgasbord" with associated costs and benefits. We will identify the value of each…

Building a Flexible BYOD Program

August 13, 2012

To succeed at BYOD, organizations must have the flexibility to respond quickly as technologies evolve. The author discusses ways to plan for a BYOD program in EdTech Magazine. Know what…

Professional Development and Higher Education IT

December 13, 2012

When it comes to the importance of professional development, the EDUCAUSE community has spoken. In the 2012 edition of The Top-Ten Issues in Higher Education IT , members identified “Updatin…

The Oregon DATA Project: Building a Culture of Data Literacy

July 18, 2012

Mickey Garrison is Director of Data Literacy for the Oregon Department of Education, and Megan Monson is the Communications Director for ODE's Direct Access to Achie…