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Thursday, February 25, 2016
Teaching and Learning and IT Issues: Exploring the Intersections - Veronica Diaz and Malcolm Brown, EDUCAUSE Review
Optimizing Educational Technology, #2 on the EDUCAUSE Top 10 IT Issues list, closely aligns with several of the ELI Key Issues. Faculty development (ELI Key Issue #1) is about improving practice and enabling faculty members to support learning with the effective use of technology. Academic transformation (ELI Key Issue #2) is about using information technology creatively to support new teaching and learning models. Learning analytics (ELI Key Issue #5) refers to studying data about learners and their contexts in order to understand and optimize learning and the environments where it occurs. Finally, working with emerging technology (ELI Key Issue #3) is about having an ongoing awareness of innovations, developing an effective process by which to discover them, utilizing pilots, and considering full-scale implementation.
http://er.educause.edu/articles/2016/1/teaching-and-learning-and-it-issues-exploring-the-intersections