The Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges is bringing together educators to broaden their understanding of teaching, relate effective practices, and exchange insights, methods and strategies that promote and support student learning. Two members of the eLearning Services team presented at the Assessment, Teaching & Learning Conference 2013 about “Teaching and Technology: Video [...]
Educause: 2012 Students and Technology
April 3, 2013 By Leave a Comment
ECAR has surveyed undergraduate students annually since 2004 about technology in higher education. In 2012, ECAR collaborated with 195 institutions to collect responses from more than 100,000 students about their technology experiences. The findings are distilled into the broad thematic message for institutions and educators to balance strategic innovation with solid delivery of basic institutional [...]
WACUG Presentations
March 27, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Washington Canvas User Group 2013 Conference The Washington Canvas User Group (WACUG) is hosting its first annual conference March 28-29, 2013. EWU staff members are presenting two sessions at this conference, “Moving forward with Canvas @ EWU” and “Working with Canvas and Google Docs”. Both sessions highlight how Canvas can be positioned and integrated with [...]
Shared Google Spreadsheet – Canvas API
March 27, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The following document will explain and guide you through the use of a shared document created in Google Drive that can be tied to Canvas. Canvas data can be added to a Google doc using the Canvas API. To access your course you will need to create what is called a Canvas Token. This token [...]
Journal of Educational Technology & Society July 2012, Vol. 15, Issue 3
October 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The Journal of Educational Technology and Society has published a special issue focused on “Learning and Knowledge Analytics”. Many of those that are currently leading the field of learning analytics have articles published in this special edition. People such as George Siemens, Dragan Gasevic, Simon Buckingham Shum, Rebecca Ferguson and many many more. All together 11 of the 23 [...]
Analytics in Higher Education: Benefits, Barriers, Progress, and Recommendations
September 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Many colleges and universities have demonstrated that analytics can help significantly advance an institution in such strategic areas as resources allocation, student success, and finance. Higher education leaders hear about these transformations occurring at other institutions and wonder how their institutions can initiate or build upon their own analytics programs. Some question whether they have [...]
eLearning Services 2012 Infographic
September 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The 2012 eLearning Services infographic highlights EWU’s student, staff, and faculty increase in the use of the instructional technology tools and the impact it has had on education at Eastern.
Creating Effective Collaborative Learning Groups in an Online Environment
August 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Abstract: Collaborative learning in an online classroom can take the form of discussion among the whole class or within smaller groups. This paper addresses the latter, examining first whether assessment makes a difference to the level of learner participation and then considering other factors involved in creating effective collaborative learning groups. Data collected over a [...]
ELI – Designing Mobile Learning Experiences for Higher Education
August 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
This webinar will explore the what and how of mobile education with some hands on activities to start applying mobile concepts. ELI – Designing Mobile Learning Experiences for Higher Education Date: September 24, 2012 Time: 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM Duration: 3 hours Register Now: http://www.educause.edu/events/eli-online-seminar-designing-mobile-learning-experiences-higher-education Mobile has been the fastest growing industry, ever. In [...]
