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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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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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Ten innovative postsecondary institutions and organizations received funding in NGLC’s most recent wave of investments. Along with the announcement of their status as winners, NGLC sent an invitation to gather and to meet one another in Denver at the 2012 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference. As a...
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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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What will it take for next generation learning to help more students attain significantly better outcomes more affordably? That’s the question Next Generation Learning Challenges tried to answer in a draft framework for next generation learning. My colleague Andy Calkins and I wrote the...
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Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC), an EDUCAUSE initiative to accelerate educational innovation through applied technology to improve college readiness and completion in the United States, announced the final six grants in its current round of support for breakthrough degree programs today...
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The high school student glanced up from her laptop, looked her school district superintendent in the eye, and uttered the words that froze her in her tracks – and have galvanized her into action ever since.
“You people are slowing me down.”
The superintendent, a member of...
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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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