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Reimagining Assessment

Designing a Better Learning Environment

A project of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, the Learning Space Rating System (LSRS) has been developed by leading community experts for rating formal learning spaces to determine how well classroom design supports and encourages active learning.
Technology Tools

Digital Natives vs. Digital Immigrants

As the school year ramps up, it's easy for anyone to get caught up in an adversarial approach to technology and learning; digital immigrants versus digital natives. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
New Designs for School

Diving into Project-Based Learning

Ways to apply project-based learning in your classroom to help make learning deeper, more authentic, relevant, and personal.
Enabling Change

Do the Math SAILS into Tennessee High Schools

Through SAILS, high school students in Tennessee can become college ready in math with Chattanooga State's Do the Math course.
New Designs for School

Does Your Classroom Design Affect Student Learning?

Is your classroom conducive to learning? Examine six environmental factors that may encourage—or impede—students' performance.
Building Community

Education Innovation Clusters: Help is on the way!

How do you motivate people with mutual interest in education innovation but divergent missions and incentives to work together when the exact benefits of doing so are unknown?
New Designs for School

Embracing the Hard Parts: 8 Video Resources for Authentic Learning Design

To understand how the magic of authentic learning emerges from the methods teachers use behind the scenes, sometimes you just need to see PBL in action.
New Designs for School

Evidence of Personalized Learning Practices in NGLC Schools

There’s so much more within RAND’s Early Progress: Interim Research on Personalized Learning than students’ MAP scores.
New Designs for School

Hard to Do Well: Project-Based Learning and Authentic Learning Design

Authentic, holistic learning design is vital for developing the broader, deeper competencies students need in our increasingly complex and fast-changing world, but it's hard to do it well.
Technology Tools

Expectations for the Next Generation Digital Learning Environment

The Next Gen Digital Learning Environment report sparked a dialogue among several prominent bloggers, and now, we’d like to respond to some of the discussion that emerged since its publication.