Donald M. Norris

Tuesday was kickoff day at EDUCAUSE, and we used the occasion to talk with a number of analytics leaders who have perspectives on new developments today and in the future.  Their full interviews will be posted and linked to our site, as will white papers, case studies, and applications briefs.  Keep following the posts over the next week as the full body of knowledge supporting these conversations is built.

Follow this link for interview summaries from the first day of EDUCAUSE.

Recently, the IEEE Learning Technology Newsletter published an article titled Bridging Intellectual and Technological Innovations: The Collaborative Culture of Assessment written by my colleague, Stacy Sculthorp, and me.

While we were writing this article we wondered how others engage faculty in building a collaborative culture of assessment given the foundation of existing intellectual and technological innovations. Specifically, what were your experiences, challenges, and solutions that resulted in best practices?

To read the full article visit http://www.ieeetclt.org/issues/july2010/IEEE-LT-Jul10.htm

Juanita Ikuta, PhD
Stacy Sculthorp, MA

Specialists
Assessment and Learning Analytics
Capella University

A Special Report on Managing Information - From The Economist Print Edition, February 25, 2010

Information has gone from scarce to superabundant.  That brings huge new benefits - but also big headaches.

The National Center for Academic Tranformation

The National Center for Academic Transformation (NCAT) is the only national organization focused on both academic quality and cost savings in higher education. Working with state and system educational authorities that need to affect substantial change among their institutions, the NCAT is able to replicate its successful course redesign methodology developed at the national level and produce similar results at the state level.

The National Center for Academic Transformation

The Roadmap to Redesign (R2R) was a NCAT program, funded by FIPSE to establish an efficient means of spreading the ideas and practices of the NCAT's "Program in Course Redesign" to additional institutions.  It was conducted from 2003 – 2006.  R2R partnered experienced, successful institutions with new institutions, using a streamlined redesign methodology.