Read a number of articles in the most recent Educause Review that focus on the student perspective on teaching & learning with technology.
Check out these article titles:
- If Higher Education Listened to Me…
- Five Points of Connectivity
- Father Google and Mother IM: Confessions of a Net Gen Learner
- “Engage Me or Enrage Me”: What Today’s Learners Demand
It’s great to see the student perspective moving to the fore. Some of the work done in UBC’s e-portfolio pilots have shown that students want to have their perspectives acknowledged, that they feel a greater investment in and engagement with their work if they feel the tools they are enabled to use truly represent their experience as students.