Planning

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Planning

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…

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…

What We're Reading, April 2013

April 25, 2013

"The 3-D Printing Revolution: Dreams Made Real, One Layer at a Time," Rachel Ehrenberg, Science News 183 (5) (March 9, 2013) http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/348429/de…

Blazing the Trail in Texas: Work in Progress on the Texas Affordable Baccalaureate

April 25, 2013

  “What we’re talking about is a different satisfactory academic progress model than most of you are used to,” said project leader Van Davis to a large group of faculty from the two Tex…

Trending Now: Recent News in the Postsecondary World of Next Generation Learning

April 15, 2013

  One of the more captivating issues we at Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) have been watching is the federal guidance regarding financial aid funding eligibility for comp…

Peanut Butter Meets Chocolate: Hewlett OER and Deeper Learning Grantees Join Forces for a Day

April 11, 2013

The San Diego weather was cooler than usual last week, but an occasional chilly breeze off the Pacific did little to cool the enthusiasm among the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation grantees ga…

MOOCs and Intellectual Property: Ownership and Use Rights

April 8, 2013

Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have become the buzzword these days.  Besides the interest and the hype associated with MOOCs, campuses are having serious discussions about the opportuniti…

Pathway to Possibility: A Framework is Renovated and Refined

April 4, 2013

Last September, Next Generation Learning Challenges published a white paper laying out our perspective on what next generation learning is and what it requires. The six dimensions of the framew…