As postsecondary credential options proliferate and questions persist about a traditional college degree's value, higher education institutions are challenged to improve how they signal a degree holder's specific skills, qualifications, and knowledge to the job market.
Is it possible to have the best of both a networked learning environment and an adaptive learning model implemented in the same system? The authors share their vision of the “next” next generation digital learning environment, the N2GDLE.
Although central to the business of higher education, the LMS has also become a symbol of the status quo that supports administrative functions more effectively than teaching and learning activities.