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Backgrounds and Behaviors of MOOC Participants and Implications for Faculty
April 4, 2013 | A session at the ELI Online Spring Focus Session: Learning and the MOOC

In spring 2012, the first MIT/edX MOOC, "Circuits and Electronics" (6.002x), was open to students around the world. A team of researchers from MIT and Harvard has been analyzing data gene…

Bigfoot, Goldilocks, and Moonshots: A Report from the Frontiers of Personalized Learning
April 1, 2013

The creativity of higher education innovators has produced three categories of solutions with the potential to break the "iron triangle" of cost, quality, and access.   …

Assessing Deeper Learning
July 1, 2011

This policy brief from the Alliance for Excellent Education shows what assessments that measure deeper learning would look like, how they are used in other countries, how technology can suppo…

Using Google+ to Enhance Student Learning, Engagement, and Communication
April 1, 2013

Key Takeaways The social media tool Google+ lets students participate in a protected online environment that facilitates communication and information sharing about development…

Quality Control in K–12 Digital Learning: Three (Imperfect) Approaches
January 1, 2011

Digital learning makes possible the “unbundling” of school provisions—that is, it allows children to be served by providers from almost anywhere, in new and more customized ways. At the s…

Building Blocks for College Completion: Blended Learning
December 11, 2012

Ten projects funded by Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) in the initiative’s first round of investment in 2011, known as Wave I, sought to scale the adoption of blended learning model…

Data Visualization in Education
March 19, 2013 | A session at the Midwest Regional Conference

Predictably, data-visualization technologies are applied to science and business practices for modeling outcomes and forecasting trends. What if this same technology were applied to course conten…

Next-Generation Learning: What Is It? And Will It Work?
February 6, 2013 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting

The explosion of online educational resources, more powerful learning platforms, learner analytics, and MOOCs is changing higher education. Unfortunately, research on the effectiveness of differe…

Why Intervention and Impact Evaluation Is Critical for Improving Student Learning
February 4, 2013 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting

This session will highlight effective strategies for designing and assessing the impact of interventions aimed at improving learning. Drawing on two recent SEI case studies that reported research…

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…

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