Making it easy to engage students

Today’s students are digital natives. They use technology and digital media to stay connected to friends, to express themselves and to share their ideas and discoveries. We need to create media-rich learning environments that provide them with "their kind of learning experience".

Students use technology every day. A recent survey of graduating high school students, showed that less than 20% used the library for research, whereas over 50% used Wikipedia and another 50% used YouTube™. They regularly watch videos to explore their interests, participate in online social groups to share ideas and information, upload their work to community sites like Flickr and MySpace for comment, and answer other people’s questions within their areas of expertise on Adrvark.

itslearning makes such vehicles for education available to faculty with less effort than it used to take to upload a syllabus.

Integrated audio and video tools make multimedia content creation a two click process
Integrated Web 2.0 tools make it a two-step process to embed a YouTube video into a lesson, or refer students to an RSS feed
Integration with the Diglib digital content management system makes it a three click process to use licensed material from either major or specialty publishers
Multimedia discussion groups enable students to communicate with professors and peers using text, images, audio and video – with no extra effort

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Making it easy to engage students

Today’s students are digital natives. They use technology and digital media to stay connected to friends, to express themselves and to share their ideas and discoveries. We need to create media-rich learning environments that provide them with "their kind of learning experience".