The Six Dimensions of Next Generation Learning

September 10, 2012

Andy Calkins and Nancy Millichap

Agenda

Introduce Next Generation Learning Challenges

Present Examples of NGLC Grantee Work

Identify Six Dimensions of Next Generation Learning

Extend an Invitation to Comment

Read the Paper: Next Generation Learning: The Pathway to Possibilityhttp://www.educause.edu/library/resources/next-generation-learning-pathway-possibility

The Six Dimensions of Next Generation Learning

Next Generation Learning Challenges

About NGLC

Next Generation Learning Challenges accelerates educational innovation through applied technology to dramatically improve college readiness and completion in the United States.

NGLC’s PremiseThis goal requires a fundamental rethinking of education practices, policies, and structures, if we are to meet individual and societal needs in the 21st century.

How It Will HappenThese changes will arise from field-based innovation and achieve scale through distributed networking within and across communities of practice.

Erik Van Dusen graphic

NGLC’s RoleNGLC’s role is to accelerate the development of those innovations, foster that networking and advance the distribution of new knowledge.

To Date:

• $25 million distributed to 65 grantees representing more than 300 partner institutions

• 29 postsecondary projects focused on blended learning, open core courseware, learning analytics and deeper learning

• 19 secondary education projects focused on innovative technology tools linked to the Common Core

• Nearly 30 new breakthrough secondary and postsecondary schools or programs (by October 2012)

Projected number of students served by scaled-up NGLC projects within five years: 2.5 million

NGLC’s Approach

Multiply Impact

Accelerate Adoption

Build an evidence base and create communities of practice.

Invest in Innovation

NGLC Partners

What outcomes are we shooting for?

How do we and our students measure progress towards those outcomes?

NGLC Grantees: Goals

NAU Personalized Learning Division

http://tinyurl.com/NAUPersonalizedLearning

U of Massachusetts Math Tutor

http://wayangoutpost.com/

For Students, Problems with Resources

For Instructors, Detailed Dashboard

Goals: Common Themes

Prepared for career and civic life Knowledge that cuts across traditional lines Applying multi-disciplinary knowledge to an issue Outcomes relevant to students and employers Deeper learning: critical thinking, conceptual understanding,

transfer of knowledge Non-cognitive skills: motivation, self-efficacy, learn how to

learn A range of outcomes, a range of measures Performance not memorization Mastery Assessment is learning

Goals: Building the Framework

Define Content knowledge 21st century competencies

Cognitive Interpersonal Intrapersonal

Measure Assessing for learning Assessing for attainment Assessing for system performance Supporting analytics

MEASURE

DEFINE

Goals: Questions?

MEASURE

DEFINE

What learning and business models can generate those outcomes affordably for all students?

What must change in order for these designs to be implemented effectively?

NGLC Grantees: Methods

Southern New Hampshire UniversityPathways Project

http://www.snhu.edu/15513.asp

New Charter University

http://new.edu/info/

Methods: Common Themes(from a student’s perspective) Personalized to the ways I learn best

Flexible so that I can try different ways to learn

Interactive and engaging so that I participate in the learning

Relevant to the life I’d like to lead

Organized around my own progress against goals I understand

Constantly informed by different ways of demonstrating and measuring

my progress

Collaborative with instructors, peers, and others, unlimited by proximity

Agile and supportive when I need extra help

Challenging but achievable, with opportunities to become expert in an

area of interest

Available to me as it is to every other student

Methods: Common Themes

Online and blended learning environments Pay a flat-rate and progress at your own pace Disaggregated faculty roles Deploying resources differently

Counteracting higher costs of technology with greater efficiencies and higher rates of student success

Training staff and students for new roles and new technologies

Recognizing institutional culture while trying to change how it operates

Feedback and iterative design is baked in

Methods: Building the Framework

Design Learning

Personalized, Competency-based, variable-paced progression Active/inquiry-based Collaborative Online/blended

Learner Supports Academic, social, personal, technical/career Inclusivity/accessibility

Implement Resource innovation: people, time, money,

curriculum, learning tech Infrastructure: operations, data, systems tech Culture: organizational, ecosystem, RDD

process

IMPLEMENT DESIGN

Methods: Questions?

MEASURE

IMPLEMENT DESIGN

DEFINE

What policy and other environmental conditions must be in place for the new designs to be piloted with fidelity to their founding ideas?

What broader conditions must be in place in order for effective designs to scale up?

NGLC Grantees: Environments

Texas Affordable Baccalaureate

http://tinyurl.com/TexasAffordableBaccalaureate

University of Central Florida

http://blended.online.ucf.edu/

Environments: Common Themes

State system-level support for public institutions Connecting to initiatives supported by policymakers, legislators Communicating with community at the institution and in the local

area Networks of sharing across institutions Open educational resources

more accessible and flexible for students reduced cost of adoption and configurable to different environments

for institutions External vendors provide on-going service to users Guides, resources, and training materials to support adoption

with low-touch but high quality support Long-term perspectives on internal capacity Rethinking assumptions about credit hours, recognition of prior

learning, accreditation Collecting evidence

Environments: Building the Framework

Enable Internal/organizational

Policy and governance Leadership Startup funding

External/public Policy and regulation Access to innovation Community/public will

Scale Evidence-building: processes & outcomes Investment: public & private Openness Change management support Cost-effectiveness

SCALE

ENABLE

How do all of these dimensions relate with each other?

What purposes might educators and other innovators find for this framework?

The Six Dimensions

The Six Dimensions of Next Generation Learning

MEASURE

IMPLEMENT DESIGN

SCALE

DEFINE

ENABLE

GOALS

METHODS

ENVIRONMENTS

Invitation to Comment

The Six Dimensions of Next Generation Learningnextgenlearning.org

acalkins@educause.edu nmillichap@educause.edu