Students and EDUCAUSE Review Articles

The ACT experience is designed to immerse students in a high-tech playground where they can acquire civic knowledge and skills, as well as experiment with civic behaviors and democratic participation.

The authors make the argument that there still is a need for schools to provide computer labs for students.

The author points out the positives and negatives to students having internet and computer access during class.

This section of the ELI Guide to Podcasting was written by Carie Windham, Former Undergraduate, North Carolina State University, and Graduate Student, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. It is also published in EDUCAUSE Review, Vol. 42, No. 3 (May/June 2007).

After becoming a podcasting convert, the author talked with other students at colleges and universities across North America about their iPod and MP3 use, their familiarity with podcasting, and how they see podcasting as part of the classroom.

Although advances in social networking technologies allow for new and perhaps more efficient means of learning and communicating, they also pose some significant challenges in higher education, especially for those campus professionals who provide student and academic services.

The authors discuss online social networking tools such as MySpace and the Facebook and how higher education administrators may want to advise or warn students about the consequences of posting personal information on these sites.

The 14 year old author discusses the pros and cons of taking an online course.

The author discusses how higher education needs to transform from it's current state of lecture based learning, to an individual based learning system.

The authors discuss whether a digital divide still exists in higher education amoung students.

Higher education must continually evolve new methods of teaching and learning to support students' lifelong skills and impending careers.