Educom Announces Major Higher Education Learning Initiative

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At its annual conference in San Antonio in November, Educom announced the formation of the National Learning Infrastructure Initiative (NLII). The purpose of the NLII is to assist in restructuring higher education through the inclusion and use of information technology. Currently, 46 businesses, universities, colleges, and policy-making organizations have joined NLII.

Carol Twigg, vice president of Educom and one of the principal designers of the NLII, states, "Clearly, we need to turn the teaching infrastructure on its head to focus on the learner. Unlike today's teaching infrastructure, which relies on highly individualistic institutions, a learning infrastructure will be …