EDUCAUSE | Collaboration, Presented at ELI Meetings, and Interaction and Engagement

Prisms Around Student Learning: Information Literacy, IT Fluency, and Media Literacy

drupal — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:19:04 -0500

The family of literacies now promoted in higher education (information literacy, IT fluency, and media and visual literacies) continues to multiply. These educational agendas call for more pervasive collaboration among all stakeholders (faculty, administrators, librarians, technologists, student life staff, assessment specialists, and others) because of conceptual and programmatic linkages and convergences among them. The blending of these literacies can become a catalyst that taps into student learning and engagement at a deep level and effects cultural change within and across institutions.

Importance of Informal Spaces for Learning, Collaboration, and Socialization

drupal — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 09:17:14 -0500

In the opening general session presentation of the focus session's second day, Lori Gee and Terry Hajduk highlighted the following principles as central to the importance of informal learning spaces:
* The entire campus is a learning environment that provides opportunities for further learning;
* Informal spaces for learning, collaboration, and socialization are critical components of both scheduled and unscheduled campus spaces; and
* Space drives behaviors and behaviors need to change for our society to realize its learning goals.
The presentation explores these principles across a range of institutional examples.