As Deputy Director for Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC), Andrew Calkins helps to lead a national effort, managed by the nonprofit organization EDUCAUSE and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation along with several other philanthropies, to fundamentally transform secondary and postsecondary education through the development of personalized, competency-based, student-centered, blended learning models, enabled in part by technology. Since its inception late in 2010, NGLC has invested more than $60 million in a range of “building block” innovations and whole-school and college degree-program models designed by educators to create more personalized learning and substantially improved outcomes for students.
