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Open Learning Objectives

OpenEd and the Learning Accelerator have partnered to create a list of open learning objectives. Learn how you can use them and support the effort.
Professional Learning

Teaching & Learning is an Open Book at Turner Middle School

Turner Middle School opened its classrooms for its peers in Colorado's Thompson School District to see how it personalizes competency-based education.
Enabling Change

Pathway to Possibility: A Framework is Renovated and Refined

NGLC re-releases a foundational white paper presenting the six dimensions of next generation learning.
Professional Learning

A Personalized Learning Approach to Professional Development at Education Achievement Authority

At Michigan's Education Achievement Authority, teachers experience personalized learning with a twist: sometimes, they're the students.
Why Schools Need to Change

Postsecondary Trending Now: Too Many Students Start College But Don’t Finish

Although access to higher education has improved, college completion rates have not. What can we do to better serve our most vulnerable student populations?
Technology Tools

The Potential of Games and Simulations in Higher Education

Digital games have potential as a higher education learning environment. NGLC project simSchool seeks to realize that potential by providing a “flight simulator for teachers.
Why Schools Need to Change

The Practical Value of a Liberal Education

University of New England Provost James Koelbl argues that skills learned from a broad liberal education are linked to success in any career and in life.
Reimagining Assessment

Preparing Students for Competency-Based Hiring

Transcripts have historically been the official record for what a student has learned in college, but do not provide the details employers need to understand regarding what a student knows and can do on the job.
New Designs for School

Putting the "Breakthrough" in Breakthrough Model Schools

Today, NGLC announces eight new recipients of $450,000 breakthrough school model launch grants and 30 recipients of $100,000 planning grants. There's a lot to observe about these varied and enormously promising school designs, but at some level, this is the most important: Each of the 38 applications makes you think, "Ooh! I want my kid to go to THAT school!"
New Designs for School

RETHINK: Planning and Designing for K-12 Next Generation Learning

This flexible and dynamic toolkit developed by iNACOL and NGLC can help you manage change and connect with experts to design next gen learning.