EDUCAUSE Review Magazine, Volume 40, Number 5, September/October 2005

Features

• If Higher Education Listened to Me . . .
  Kitzzy Aviles, Bill Phillips, Tim Rosenblatt, and Jessica Vargas
  Four students—representing Baby Boomers, Generation-Xers, and Millennials—discuss the use of technology in teaching and learning, the role of professors and the adoption of technology by professors, the importance of technology for social networking, and the need for more university-provided technology services.
• Five Points of Connectivity
  Sarah E. Smith and Anthony Potoczniak
  Two graduate students share their perspectives, gained from their experiences on both sides of the lectern, about how various technologies can be used successfully in classroom settings to improve learning through connectivity.
• Father Google and Mother IM: Confessions of a Net Gen Learner
  Carie Windham
  To bridge the technology cultural gap between many faculty and administrators and the youngest generation of college students, a recent graduate reveals what being a "Net Gener" really means and how that can translate to the classroom.
• "Engage Me or Enrage Me": What Today's Learners Demand
  Marc Prensky
  Among the various types of students, one group is quickly becoming the majority and presents the top challenge for educators today.

• Learners, Learning, and Technology: The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative
  Diana G. Oblinger
  Understanding learners, learning principles, and learning technologies is necessary for institutions with a goal of using IT to improve learning. Helping institutions to do so—and thus to advance learning through IT innovation—is the goal of the ELI.

Departments

• techwatch
  Information Technology in the News
• Leadership
  Getting Ready for the Net Generation Learner
  Kenneth W. Dobbins
• E-Content
  Oldies, Music Rights, and the Digital Age
  Peter McDonald
• IT Myths
  The Myth about Students
  Diana G. Oblinger and Brian L. Hawkins
• New Horizons
  The Value Proposition in Institutional Repositories
  Erv Blythe and Vinod Chachra
• policy@edu
  A Review of Creative Commons and Science Commons
  Mia Garlick
• Viewpoints
  Life of Lambda
  Tracy Futhey
• Homepage
  Lost and Found
  Richard N. Katz