EDUCAUSE Review Articles and Instructional Design

nanoHUB is an online portal for nanotechnology researchers, instructors, and students created by Purdue University and the National Science Foundation. It uses cyberinfrastructure to provide access to scientific tools for research, demonstration, and collaboration, as well as instructional materials. Users can run experiments, review research, or download lectures. nanoHUB is a virtual toolkit as well as a community where students and faculty contribute to the science of nanotechnology.

The author discusses the importance of using the current technology in higher education is to teach the students to be aware and engaged with the world around them.

Leadership in IT requires a focus on current technology innovation, adoption, and impact on learning, but most important, leadership in IT requires understanding the alignment of external factors—access, affordability, perceived quality—to the core mission and integrity of the institution.

The author asks the questions, what is it going to take to see new media, multimodal literacies, and curriculum and instructional change at colleges and universities?

Reflecting on their recent research study, a systems designer, a pedagogist, and a learning researcher discuss the advantages and shortcomings of learning/course management systems and also what faculty, students, and administrators want from the next-generation e-learning environment.

Higher education institutions can take steps to embrace visual literacy within their core values and curricula to build visually dynamic communities.

The authors discuss reality of online course development, that it no longer is one faculty member going it alone and experimenting with new technology. Today it takes a team of people from faculty, to instructional designers to make online learning a worthy enterprise.

The author discusses the evolution of instructional designers and technologists in an ever increasing IT integrated environment.