Collaborative Learning

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Collaborative Learning

Trending Now: Postsecondary

June 14, 2013

Recent research on next gen learning explores MOOC effectiveness and what it takes to create a new model for postsecondary education. Editor’s Note: In this monthly series, NGLC staff shar…

Northern Arizona Wins Regional Accreditor’s Approval for Personalized Learning Program

June 7, 2013

It’s all systems go, at last: Northern Arizona University, one of the ten institutions presently developing breakthrough degree programs with NGLC support, recently got the gree…

Grit

June 3, 2013

What does it take to address the 2013 top-10 IT issues and be a CIO? Grit. Grit, it seems, may be as essential as intelligence. People with grit persevere. They have a passion for their goal. …

Randy Pausch's Boldest Innovation

June 2, 2013

A central concern with MOOCs and other student directed learning experiences is that by decentering the traditional gatekeeping role of teachers, such experiences lack an authoritative center f…

Refactoring Coursera

May 30, 2013

There’s really four elements companies like Coursera have brought to the table. Massive Classes : This was the original “intellectual” pitch. Massive data was going to build better …

Lessons from Dewitt by Mike Chapple

May 23, 2013

Recently the higher education IT community suffered a great loss when Dewitt Latimer was tragically taken from us after a motorcycle accident in Montana. The news of Dewitt’s accident spread qu…

Trending Now: Postsecondary

May 16, 2013

MOOCs dominate recent news and reports in next generation learning, while Southern New Hampshire makes history with competency-based learning. Last month, Kristen Vogt inaugurated a month…

Why MOOCs are like Farmville, Part II

May 12, 2013

On January 18th, I laid out my concerns with Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) , understanding their rapid ascent within the confines of Gartner’s Hype Cycle . In doing so, my purpose…

Listening - The First Step of Many

April 30, 2013

When I was asked by EDUCAUSE to write a blog about the experiences of a first-time CIO, I was concerned that I wouldn't have enough to write about that would be of interest to the EDUCAUSE c…

Exploring and Designing Breakthrough Models in Higher Education

April 29, 2013

  With the release of an updated EDUCAUSE on Campus toolkit ,  Exploring and Designing Breakthrough Models in Higher Education , Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) com…