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Van L. Davis, Ph.D., Director of Special Projects, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
This week, NGLC headed off to SXSWedu in sunny Austin, Texas. Only in its third year, this conference has grown to 6,000 attendees from 30 countries and draws an exciting mix of instructional designers,...
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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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Several conversations, sessions, and keynote speakers at this year’s annual meeting of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, ELI2013, focused on
what next gen learning is (you can tell us what you think here),
how we get there from here, and
how we know if it works.
Perfect...
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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.
Most students can tell you about a handful of teachers who...
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Editor’s Note: This post is the first in a series of Monday posts which will each highlight a distinguishing design characteristic of NGLC’s recently funded Breakthrough Postsecondary Models, as described in their profiles.
NGLC's third wave of funding sought to foster the...
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BioBook: Making Biology accessible
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.
Traditional textbooks...
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This week, NGLC staff headed west to attend Big Ideas Fest, an annual gathering of teachers, policymakers, funders, and researchers dedicated to surfacing “big ideas” in education. After three days of networking, we left inspired, refreshed, and excited that so many of the big ideas our...
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Last week, the world of higher education IT convened in Denver for the 2012 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference. Countless sessions considered the future of higher education, debating MOOCs and OER or exploring competency-based models and learning analytics. (A great primer? See Michael’s Horn’s...
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Across today’s news outlets are stories on the critical issues facing higher education. In the Huffington Post last June, Wagner College president Richard Guarasci summed those issues: “The crisis facing American higher education is rooted in a series of challenges around access, cost,...
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Use EDUCAUSE and NGLC resources to plan a professional development event exploring the future of higher education.
By NGLC Staff
The shifting forces challenging higher education, both within and outside the academy, have dominated countless newspaper headlines and led to a...
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