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Enabling Change

Collaborative Course Design with OER in the Kaleidoscope Open Course Initiative

Three aspects of collaborative course design made a difference in the success of the Kaleidoscope Open Course Initiative, now Lumen Learning,
Building Community

Creating Breakthrough Schools, One Region at a Time

NGLC has a call out for regionally-based partner organizations to become local incubators of next generation learning. The goal is a critical mass of new or redesigned schools that meet the needs of individual students and result in dramatic improvements in student outcomes.
New Designs for School

Competency-Based Education: Faculty Goals and Student Grades

Two insights from the ELI Annual Meeting are helping me think about how to proceed at Western Kentucky University: faculty goals and student grades.​
Designing for Equity

Curriculum, Defaults, and Equity

​Schools across the country have an equity problem: vastly different engagement from students in tasks with varying degrees of challenge in nearly every U.S. town.
Technology Tools

The Conversion of a Skeptic: My Journey into Online Teaching, Part 1

Student demand for online learning led to some transformational changes by a faculty member and self-professed skeptic of asynchronous teaching.
Reimagining Assessment

Digital Badges and Academic Transformation

In higher ed, digital badges represent successful completion of a variety of learning experiences both inside and outside of the traditional for-credit course.
Professional Learning

Digital Badging: the Rise of Skillbuilding Recognition at EDUCAUSE

If you haven’t already earned a digital badge—or don’t know someone who has—you might be wondering what they’re all about. Digital badges are a highly visible way to document incremental, lifelong learning that can also be used to recognize professional engagement and achievements.
Why Schools Need to Change

Embracing Real-World Work as Bona Fide Learning Experience

Some colleges and university systems are exploring alternative routes to granting academic credit.
Technology Tools

Investing in Personalized Learning Strategies to Improve College Student Outcomes

Jason Palmer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation shares his passion for the power of education to transform lives.
Technology Tools

Leveraging analytics to study and improve learning

With E2Coach, the University of Michigan is using data and student and faculty feedback to tailor support to students.