Teaching and Learning

Teaching and Learning

The strategic use of information technology has the ability to transform teaching and learning helping institutions realize EDUCAUSE’s mission of "transforming education through information technologies." All institutions have made educating learners a critical priority. Technology is a means, not an end, toward that goal.

EDUCAUSE focuses on understanding learners, aligning learning principles and practices together and integrating learning technology—all with the goal of improving student success. EDUCAUSE members also benefit from tools and techniques that enable them to deliver high quality academic programs and support services in a flexible manner. The strategic use of information technology can enhance student engagement, improve access, and make services more convenient. As IT is integrated into the academic enterprise, a number of other issues are raised such as financing, policies, faculty involvement, and assessment.

We encourage you to explore EDUCAUSE’s resources on teaching and learning. These include the work of our members as well as material contributed from EDUCAUSE's strategic initiative, the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative. We hope you will find the material of use and encourage you to contribute to future EDUCAUSE activities in teaching and learning.

These resources are focused specifically on Cyberinfrastructure in Teaching and Learning:

• “7 Things You Should Know About Cyberinfrastructure”
• The case studies from the CI-TEAM projects
• MARIACHI, July 2007
• nanoHUB, August 2007
• CyberBridges, September 2007
• Engineering Informatics for Bio-Inspired Robots, October 2007
• The Future of Scholarly Communication: Building the Infrastructure for Cyberscholarship
• Web Seminar: Teaching and Learning via Cyberinfrastructure
• Cyberinfrastructure For Us All: An Introduction to Cyberinfrastructure and the Liberal Arts