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Future of Higher Education

Future of Higher Education True Higher education's p…

7 Things You Should Know About Connected Learning

May 9, 2013

Higher education is entering a new, evolutionary phase defined by connections between everything and everyone . Connected learning is rooted in the active participation of students, instruct…

Exploring and Designing Breakthrough Models in Higher Education

April 23, 2013

The shifting forces challenging higher education, both within and outside the academy, have dominated countless newspaper headlines and led to a flurry of new books and research discussing trend…

Emerging Technologies, Innovation, and Academic Transformation: A Report on the ELI Focus Session

January 31, 2013

On October 2 and 3, 2012, the ELI teaching and learning community gathered for an online focus session on emerging technologies, innovation, and academic transformation . This white paper is…

Ultra-Affordable Online Courses and the Transformation of Higher Education

January 23, 2013

Brian Voss and Burck Smith will explore higher education's changing landscape and what it means for our IT community. Join us for a discussion spanning traditional institutions, entrepre…

Winds of Change: Higher Productivity in Higher Education

March 27, 2013

Editor’s Note: In this post, Brandt Redd suggests that personalized learning approaches can address dual pressures on higher education: increasing societal needs and expectations and flat or …

Unleashing the Potential of Technology in Education

August 1, 2012

The long-promised technology revolution in education is now possible—but hardly inevitable. Educators and policymakers must act today to unleash the potential of technology to improve instruc…

Kicking Up Dust in Austin at SXSWedu

March 8, 2013

By, Van L. Davis, Ph.D., Director of Special Projects, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board This week, NGLC headed off to SXSWedu in sunny Austin, Texas. Only in its third year, this …

Improvisation and Innovation: Rhetoric and Reality - Sponsored by Tuition Management Systems

March 13, 2013 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference

We are unlikely to achieve the kind of institutional agility we desire—openness to new ideas, responsiveness to a changing world—if we persist in addressing questions of innovation, improvisati…

Napster, Udacity, and the Academy

November 12, 2012

Clay Shirky provides a thoughtful discussion in this blog on MOOCs and its early stages of possible disruption of higher education. Clay Shirky p…