Networked Improvement Communities, Complex Adaptive Systems and the Learning Analytics Research Collaborative Download a copy of the presentation here: In this interactive webinar, George Rehrey will discuss the relationship between the theory of Complex Adaptive Systems in Higher Education (Siemens et al. 2019) and the Learning Analytics Research Collaborative (LARC), one of the four Research Action Clusters within the BVA. Led by Indiana University Bloomington, the other BVA institutions … [Read more...]

by: Doug Ward, Associate professor of journalism, Associate director, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Kansas   Three universities in the Bay View Alliance have helped generate a national conversation about the way teaching is evaluated. The three institutions, the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, the University of Colorado, Boulder, and the University of Kansas, are part of a project known as TEval,which is working to create a more nuanced approach to evaluating … [Read more...]

Collaborative Dynamics in Collective STEM Reform Initiatives Thursday, October 24, 2019 11:00 am PT | 12:00 pm MT | 1:00 pm CT | 2:00 pm ET Presenter: Lucas Hill, University of Wisconsin-Madison Abstract: Reform efforts in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education increasingly rely on collaboration from diverse stakeholders to achieve collective change goals. The basic premise is that initiatives can achieve more collectively than through individual siloed reform … [Read more...]