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CourseGateway Digital Learning Tools

Wed, 27 Mar 2024 20:05:11 Z

CourseGateway (CGWY) was a 3-year partnership between EDUCAUSE and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. It provided resources for faculty, instructional design teams, and administrators to discover, evaluate, select, and implement digital classroom tools.

Fall Planning for the New Normal: Moving Higher Ed Online

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 17:24:22 Z

The Fall Planning for the New Normal: Moving Higher Ed Online report sheds light both on the general trends that have taken shape as institutions planned and made preparations for fall education and on the particular practices and models that institutions have deployed.

Higher Education’s 2020 Trend Watch & Top 10 Strategic Technologies

Fri, 17 Jan 2020 21:51:07 Z

The 2020 Trend Watch and Top 10 Strategic Technologies report focuses on those trends, technologies, and practices that are going to be most influential and receive the most attention from IT leaders as they face shifting higher ed, social, political, and technological landscapes in the year ahead. A focus on security and privacy, student success, and the promises and pitfalls of data will exert a great deal of influence on IT strategy in 2020. And IT leaders will be concentrating their attention on technologies and practices that enrich student experiences and success and advance their institution’s capabilities in safely and systematically using data resources.

Higher Education’s 2019 Trend Watch & Top 10 Strategic Technologies

Mon, 08 Apr 2019 19:18:18 Z

This research examines technological investments institutions will spend the most time implementing, planning, and tracking in 2019, as well as the related trends that could influence institutional IT strategy.

Data Almanac by Institution Type: The 2019 Top 10 Strategic Technologies

Fri, 25 Jan 2019 16:25:50 Z

This 2019 almanac depicts four ways to view the top 10 strategic technologies: by all U.S. institutions (overall rank order), by Carnegie Classification, by technology approach (early, mid, and late adopters), and by institution size (as measured by student FTE).

2018 NMC Horizon Report

Tue, 31 Jul 2018 21:11:52 Z

The NMC Horizon project, which identifies and describes emerging technologies likely to have an impact on learning, teaching, and creative inquiry in higher education. EDUCAUSE is publishing this 15th edition to both honor and work actively with the NMC’s Horizon legacy.

Learning in Three Dimensions: Report on the EDUCAUSE/HP Campus of the Future Project

Mon, 30 Jul 2018 21:08:48 Z

Extended reality (XR) is having a dramatic impact on pedagogy in higher education. To explore the potential of XR technologies in higher education, Hewlett-Packard (HP) and EDUCAUSE collaborated on the Building the Campus of the Future: 3D Technologies in Academe project, focusing on XR technologies encompassing 3D simulations, modeling, and production.

7 Things You Should Know About Emerging Classroom Technologies

Mon, 09 Apr 2018 16:36:22 Z

Emerging technologies show great promise for engaging students in more active and personalized learning and deeper participation in collaboration. By facilitating deeper engagement in learning on the part of students, emerging technologies can support current trends in learning design, including improving the way we assess how students learn and what they are learning.

Higher Education's 2018 Trend Watch and Top 10 Strategic Technologies

Wed, 21 Feb 2018 14:17:30 Z

This report focuses on the widespread trends and emerging technologies influencing higher education institutions.

Data Almanac by Institution Type: The 2018 Top 10 Strategic Technologies

Mon, 22 Jan 2018 23:13:52 Z

Higher Education's Top 10 Strategic Technologies and Trends for 2018

Fri, 16 Feb 2018 20:00:11 Z

The technologies and trends report provides a snapshot of the relatively new technological investments colleges and universities will be spending the most time implementing, planning, and tracking in 2018, and summarizes the influence of related trends on institutional IT strategy.

Integration of Information Technology in a Building that Marries Library and Classroom: Purdue’s Wilmeth Active Learning Center

Thu, 25 Jan 2018 17:10:22 Z

The Wilmeth Active Learning Center (WALC) marries the traditional functions of a library and a classroom by including such traditional elements as a reading room and stack space with library study space distributed throughout the building.

7 Things You Should Know About Video Walls

Fri, 01 Dec 2017 23:42:11 Z

A video wall is a large-scale ultra-resolution digital display that joins multiple display screens with minimal bezels to create what is essentially one large screen. Video walls help create a dynamic, interactive, hands-on educational environment that enhances research, encourages active learning, and bolsters collaboration between faculty and students. Some users see video walls as an essential component in the development in higher education of applications based on virtual reality and mixed reality.

Interactive Case Scenarios: The 7Cs Framework

Mon, 23 Oct 2017 16:18:18 Z

Interactive case scenarios build on the strength of case-based learning by integrating digital learning tools and strategies. The 7Cs framework provides a structure and process for developing compelling scenario narratives.

7 Things You Should Know About Research on Active Learning Classrooms

Thu, 14 Sep 2017 15:37:22 Z

Research into active learning classrooms (ALCs)—spaces explicitly designed to support and promote this kind of learning and pedagogy—is expanding. This research provides educators with insights about how best to implement active learning pedagogies and support learners in ALCs.

7 Things You Should Know About Startup/Accelerator/Entrepreneurship Centers

Wed, 14 Jun 2017 16:45:11 Z

Colleges and universities increasingly provide central convening spaces where innovation, learning, ideation, and business creation all converge. These centers typically include physical environments for co-working, often including offices, makerspaces, and lab facilities. Services might include access to conference facilities as well as free Wi-Fi and printing. These centers provide a fertile environment where many of higher education’s interests converge, and they can serve as both classroom and laboratory for the development of business and workplace skills.

2017 Horizon Report

Mon, 06 Feb 2017 19:38:30 Z

This 14th edition describes annual findings from the NMC Horizon Project, an ongoing research project designed to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have an impact on learning, teaching, and creative inquiry in education.

Data Almanac by Institution Type: The 2017 Top 10 Strategic Technologies

Fri, 20 Jan 2017 20:39:43 Z

This almanac depicts four ways to view the top 10 strategic technologies: by all U.S. institutions (overall rank order), by Carnegie Classification, by technology approach (early, mid, and late adopters), and by institution size (as measured by student FTE). These views can help personalize the top 10 strategic technology experience and compare your institution’s status to your peers’.

Top 10 Strategic Technologies 2017, Interactive List

Tue, 17 Jan 2017 16:28:49 Z

Based on survey responses to how much time, active attention, and priority CIOs and IT leaders gave to 85 different technologies, EDUCAUSE has identified the top 10 strategic technologies for higher education.

7 Things You Should Read About Design Thinking

Fri, 14 Apr 2017 20:50:41 Z

Design thinking is an approach to solving problems that focuses on end users and their experiences with a product or service. It challenges traditional models of design by using a core set of principles, such as embracing ambiguity and failure, cultivating empathy for users, and being willing to iterate through creative options. The resources below explore design thinking as a concept and its application in the context of higher education.