Institutional Management

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Institutional Management

Going Exponential – Growing the Charter Sector’s Best

January 1, 2011

The supply of seats in the nation’s best charter schools is not growing rapidly enough to serve the millions of low-income children who need better schools.  Based on lessons from the fastes…

Encouraging Social Innovation through Capital: Using Technology to Address Barriers

November 1, 2011

This report, co-authored by Bryan Hassel for Bellwether Education Partners, examines how technology can optimize the flow of investment capital to drive innovation in public education. As descr…

Horizon Report: 2011 K-12 Edition

January 1, 2012

The NMC Horizon Report series is the most visible outcome of the NMC Horizon Project, an ongoing research effort established in 2002 that identifies and describes emerging technologies likely t…

Measuring How a College Education Lays the Foundation for “Thinking Like an Expert”

December 1, 2009

Authors: Larry Gallagher, Geneva Haertel, Louise Yarnall This report from SRI International summarizes the first-year progress of the Domain-Specific Assessment project, a prototype assessment…

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…

Sequester Impacts: Army, Marines Suspend Tuition Assistance

March 11, 2013

The American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) recently reported about another impact of the across-the-board automatic federal budget cuts known as the “sequester" …

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 …

Building Blocks for College Completion: Blended Learning

December 11, 2012

Ten projects funded by Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) in the initiative’s first round of investment in 2011, known as Wave I, sought to scale the adoption of blended learning model…

ITSM Governance: Moving Ahead and Staying on the Rails

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

Perhaps the only thing more challenging than starting a service management initiative is keeping it going. After implementing some ITIL processes, how do you maintain momentum, build on successes, …

Real-Time Visual Analytics to Evaluate Online Collaboration

March 12, 2013 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference

In this interactive session, participants will explore the use of learning analytics to improve the design and facilitation of online discussions. These emerging analytics tools provide real-time v…