The Degree Qualifications Profile
Through this document, Lumina Foundation for Education offers a “Degree Qualifications Profile,” a tool that can help transform U.S. higher education. A Degree Profile — or qualifications framework —...
View ArticleCompetency-Based Transcripts
"Students who enroll in a new competency-based program at Northern Arizona University will earn a second transcript, which will describe their proficiency in the online bachelor degree’s required...
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Integrated Planning and Advising Services (IPAS) Research
ECAR RESEARCH HUBRenewed emphasis on student progress and degree completion is driving higher education to take a fresh look at services that promote student success. Integrated planning and advising...
View ArticleTrending Now: Recent News in the Postsecondary World of Next Generation Learning
Summer – at least in theory – offers us opportunities to step back, think about the big picture, and consider some of those analyses that have been published in recent months. In that spirit of...
View ArticleTrending Now: Recent News in the Postsecondary World of Next Generation Learning
Let’s call this month’s review of recent news and reports…eclectic. First, I take a look at the plan President Obama put forth in his college affordability bus tour two weeks ago. After that, I...
View ArticleBuilding Blocks for College Completion: Learning Analytics
Six projects awarded grants by Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) in its first funding wave, “Building Blocks for College Completion,” sought to develop specific tools for learning analytics...
View ArticleProgress Report: NGLC Learning Analytics Projects
Think of learning analytics as the warning lights of online learning’s dashboard – that gleaming assemblage of dials and icons that alerts a driver at once if gas in the tank is running low, a door is...
View ArticleAnd the Winners of the Breakthrough Models Academy Competition Were…All...
CloudU … ClassMob … U.Belong … WIL Academy … MapEd … Silicon Valley ed-tech startups, perhaps? In fact, these –and five other designs—are creations of the change agents who emerged from the first-ever...
View ArticleIncubating Strategic Innovation
Normally we think of successful innovations as brilliant ideas that explode on the scene. In truth, innovations emerge from the collision of ideas and collaborations with leadership that recognizes...
View ArticleHelp Your Campus Consider a Breakthrough Model
What is a breakthrough model, and where does this concept fit in today's volatile environment and the careers of tomorrow's leaders in higher education technology? With NGLC's Breakthrough Models for...
View ArticleBlazing Trails: Launching the First Online Degree Completion Program at the...
By extending cutting-edge research and resources to online students in the high-demand field of early childhood education, the University of Washington paves the way for additional degree completion...
View ArticleTrending Now: Recent News in the Postsecondary World of Next Generation Learning
Near the end of 2013, developments in higher education that caught our attention included a nationally telecast meeting in Washington on competency-based education at community colleges and a report...
View ArticleTrending Now: Recent News in the Postsecondary World of Next Generation Learning
In December, the Center for American Progress put out a report, A Path Forward: Game-Changing Reforms in Higher Education and the Implications for Business and Financing Models by David A. Bergeron....
View ArticleFixing the Broken Textbook Market
Because of the steady increased cost of new and used textbooks, students are choosing to abstain from purchasing these resources or decreasing their courseload to afford the resources needed to obtain...
View ArticleManaging Data Risk in Student Success Systems: EDUCAUSE IPAS Summit Report
Student success has come into sharp focus for higher education. New models have emerged in response to outcome-based funding at the state level and a completion agenda at the national level. Integrated...
View ArticleNext Gen Tools: Faculty Engagement
This innovation brief from Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) focuses on the collaborative, faculty-driven process established by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Texas...
View ArticleUsing Data to Manage Enrollment and Graduation
Managing enrollment and graduation with ever-changing targets and goals is tricky. Find out how we used data to help us navigate through these waters at Sac State and how you can do it too.OUTCOMES:...
View ArticleEntrepreneurs Within: What We Learned While Launching a New Model within an...
The NGLC Breakthrough Models for College Completion are diverse, but they have one thing in common: they all demand an entrepreneurial approach from those working to implement them. Hear from...
View ArticleTop 10 Blogs about Postsecondary Next Gen Learning
What blogs do you read and rely on to stay up-to-date with the latest developments in – or speculations about – next generation learning? My NGLC colleague Stefanie Blouin surveyed the K-12 community...
View ArticleUsing Technology to Engage the Nontraditional Student
Higher education needs to focus on the success of nontraditional students, those who fail to graduate during their first engagement in college, by leveraging new technology solutions that better align...
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