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Students, Technology, and Learning: Strategies for Success—Proceedings

ckeller — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:20:47 -0500

Cosponsored by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), EDUCAUSE, and the University of Central Florida (UCF), the Students, Technology and Learning: Strategies for Success Conference (formerly the Key to Competitiveness) provides AASCU institutions with an opportunity to learn more about the next generation of students—a group with much greater expectations for the use of technology in higher education than previous generations. The event allows teams of presidents and senior institutional leaders to explore new ways of using technology to meet student expectations and more effectively serve the next generation learner.

7 Things You Should Know About Second Life

gdobbin — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:07:39 -0500

Second Life is a virtual world with tens of millions of square meters of virtual lands, more than 13 million “residents,” and a thriving economy. Large numbers of colleges and universities—or, in some cases, individual departments or faculty—are active in Second Life, not only for academic purposes but also for campus visits, recruiting activities for prospective students, and fundraising. Second Life lets educators easily build and modify learning spaces to test how different strategies for a physical space affect learning, and a similar approach can be taken toward educational activities in those spaces.

The "7 Things You Should Know About..." series from the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) provides concise information on emerging learning technologies. Each brief focuses on a single technology and describes what it is, where it is going, and why it matters to teaching and learning. Use these briefs for a no-jargon, quick overview of a topic and share them with time-pressed colleagues.

In addition to the "7 Things You Should Know About…" briefs, you may find other ELI resources useful in addressing teaching, learning, and technology issues at your institution. To learn more, please visit the ELI Resources page.

ELI Discovery Tool: Learning Space Workshop Guide

ckeller — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:31:21 -0600

The Learning Space Workshop Guide offers a set of action-oriented, modifiable, modular activities for use in faculty development, staff retreats, or similar events. The activities encourage critical thinking about characteristics and principles of effective learning space design, the pedagogical roles of technology, student perspectives, assessment, and related issues.

ELI Innovations & Implementations—The Learning Grid, University of Warwick

drupal — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 10:43:29 -0600

The University of Warwick's Learning Grid is a flexible social learning space designed to challenge, motivate, and encourage students to explore new ways of responding to their courses. Wireless-enabled and open 24 × 7, the Grid boasts a range of technologies to facilitate student-led discussions, group problem solving, presentation development, and multimedia production.

ELI's Innovations & Implementations series highlights innovative teaching, learning, and technology practices in higher education. Each Innovations & Implementations piece provides a practical overview of an innovation, focusing on its significance and implementation issues. Use Innovations & Implementations to explore innovative practices that might be of value to your institution.

ELI Discovery Tool: Student Input on Learning Spaces Tool

drupal — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 12:19:03 -0600

The ELI Student Input on Learning Spaces Tool is patterned on need-finding techniques practiced at Stanford University's Institute of Design. It gives colleges and universities a structured yet creative way of seeing their campuses as their students do, and thus to more effectively plan and design institutional learning spaces.

ELI Innovations & Implementations—The Computing Center at Cox Hall, Emory University

drupal — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 15:36:42 -0600

In 2001, Emory University opened a student computing center designed to foster digital literacy and collaboration among students and faculty. The Cox Hall Computing Center reenvisions the traditional student computing lab as a creative, mixed-use facility where students drive their own collaborative initiatives and faculty use incubator classrooms to test new multimedia tools and collaborative teaching approaches.

ELI 2005 Fall Focus Session, The Design of Informal Spaces Informal Space Design References and Resources

drupal — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 17:23:58 -0500

ELI's 2005 Fall Focus Session explored how appropriately designed informal spaces can contribute to successful learning. The session planning committee developed the following set of articles, texts, and Web sites as a resource for participants to use to enhance informal space design efforts at their institutions.

Leading the Transition from Classrooms to Learning Spaces

drupal — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 11:08:43 -0500

A National Learning Infrastructure Initiative (NLII) white paper on learning spaces.

Learning Space Design in the 21st Century: 2004 Fall Focus Session Summary

drupal — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 11:00:15 -0500

This is the summary of Learning Space Design in the 21st Century, from the NLII 2004 Fall Focus Session.