College Completion

  • Sustainability, Partnerships, Focus on Users: Lessons from Sinclair College’s Student Success Plan

    By Russ Little Project Director, Student Success Plan, Sinclair Community College Learning analytics, in which institutions use large data sets to improve learning outcomes,  was in its earliest pioneering phase two years ago in spring 2011 when Sinclair Community College received Wave I NGLC...

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  • Trending Now: Postsecondary

    Last month, Kristen Vogt inaugurated a monthly series on the latest news and reports on next generation learning, contributing the view from the postsecondary sphere. Leading off her inaugural post were notes on the rapidly evolving new federal policies about financial aid funding eligibility for...

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  • Do the Math SAILS into Tennessee High Schools

    By John Squires This month, the number of students potentially ready for college in Tennessee got a significant boost as a version of Chattanooga State College’s “Do the Math” project, one of NGLC’s “Building Blocks for College Completion” grantees, expanded its...

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  • Blazing the Trail in Texas: Work in Progress on the Texas Affordable Baccalaureate

    “What we’re talking about is a different satisfactory academic progress model than most of you are used to,” said project leader Van Davis to a large group of faculty from the two Texas campuses implementing the Texas Affordable Baccalaureate. Far from being shocked by his...

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  • Exploring and Designing Breakthrough Models in Higher Education

    With the release of an updated EDUCAUSE on Campus toolkit, Exploring and Designing Breakthrough Models in Higher Education, NGLC completes a trio of publications intended to guide those of you who are interested in making the move towards tech-enabled next generation learning. Complementing the...

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  • Pathway to Possibility: A Framework is Renovated and Refined

    Last September, Next Generation Learning Challenges published a white paper laying out our perspective on what next generation learning is and what it requires. The six dimensions of the framework were built out of observations of the work of NGLC grantees and a scan of the field. Since then, we...

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  • WATCH NEXT GENERATION LEARNING IN ACTION The National Repository of Online Courses

    Editor’s Note: This video, produced by NGLC and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is the next in a series called “Profiles of Next Generation Learning.” Follow NGLC on Vimeo to stay up to date with new videos. High school students at Sierra Vista, an alternative education...

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  • WATCH NEXT GENERATION LEARNING IN ACTION:USC Hybrid High School: A High School for the 21st Century

    Editor’s Note: This video, produced by NGLC and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is the next in a series called “Profiles of Next Generation Learning.” Follow NGLC on Vimeo to stay up to date with new videos. Over 1 million high school kids, mostly in urban...

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  • Touchstone Education: Reinventing What School Looks Like

    Editor’s Note: This video, produced by NGLC and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is the next in a series called “Profiles of Next Generation Learning.” Follow NGLC on Vimeo to stay up to date with new videos. Touchstone Education is committed to creating a school...

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  • Winds of Change: Higher Productivity in Higher Education

    By Brandt Redd, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Editor’s Note: This guest post by Brandt Redd suggests that personalized learning approaches can address the dual pressures on higher education: increasing societal needs and expectations and flat or declining funding. Brandt is Senior...

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