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iDesign partners with colleges and universities to create, expand, and support fully online to hybrid, adaptive, or competency-based educational programs.
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NP demand up 40% by 2033. But policy lags:

🔵 27 states grant NPs Full Practice Authority (FPA).
🔵 23 states/territories impose Reduced or Restricted Authority, requiring career-long oversight.

It's time for autonomous practice nationwide.

dailynurse.springerpub.com/nurse-practi...
Split graphic showing contrast between rising demand and restricted access, with the left side in blue featuring an upward arrow labeled ‘40% demand increase’ above a free running female figure, and the right side in red showing a map of the United States locked with chains and padlock above a kneeling, shackled female figure with the word ‘RESTRICTED’ across the center.
November 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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2.8 million students in dual enrollment. Yet, policy is reactive & incomplete.

States heavily fund teacher credentialing but overlook holistic quality: advising, college navigation, and supportive systems. We must prioritize systems before scale.

www.insidehighered.com/news/student...
3D illustration of interlocking gold gears labeled ‘Systems Before Scale’ pushing up a large blue and green arrow labeled ‘Dual Enrollment Growth’ against a light, futuristic background
November 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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The ADA Title II "Time Bomb" is ticking. 💣

New federal rules require WCAG 2.1 AA for all web & media. The game-changer is audio descriptions for video, creating a massive, unquantified compliance risk starting April 2026.

@philhill1.bsky.social: onedtech.philhillaa.com/p/the-other-...
Illustration of a large iceberg floating in dark blue water, with a small visible tip above the surface and a massive portion hidden below. The text reads “ADA Title II Deadline: April 2026” above the waterline and “Thousands of Videos – Audio Descriptions Mandate (WCAG 2.1 AA)” below the surface, symbolizing the unseen scale of accessibility work required.
November 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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AI is here. Is your CBE program resilient? 🤖

Join @idesignedu.org for the #CBExchange session on AI-Proofing CBE. We show how moving assessment to mastery, not completion, creates authentic, durable learning. Featuring @whitneykilgore.bsky.social.

When: Nov 12, 3:30 PM MST
Promotional graphic for iDesign’s session at CBExchange. Text reads: “Join us at CBExchange — Wednesday, November 12th | 3:30–4:00pm MT. Reimagining CBE: The Role of AI and Instructional Design in Shaping the Future.” Featured speakers include Dr. Amelia Brown from The University of Tennessee, Whitney Kilgore, PhD from iDesign, and Leah Davis from iDesign. The iDesign logo appears at the top, with headshots of the three speakers below. The background is light blue with curved design elements.
November 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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In the AI era, universities must stop treating industry as a vendor.

Partnerships must be built on shared purpose and mutual growth to benefit the learner. They expand opportunity; transactions narrow it.

www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

#HigherEd #EdTech
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November 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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High-Quality Advising is not a checklist, it's a holistic developmental process.

New framework from @harvard.edu (HGSE) defines what students deserve: career-centered advice, starting in grade nine, with robust support beyond transactional talks.
#StudentSuccess

www.gse.harvard.edu/ideas/news/2...
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October 30, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Join @idesignedu.org at the #AACN Leadership Conference in Washington D.C. where Whitney Kilgore, PhD, addresses the biggest barrier to the AACN Essentials: faculty workload.

🎤: Whitney Kilgore, PhD, CAO, iDesign
📍: Longworth (Meeting room level)
🗓️ : November 2, 2025
🧭: 8:30-9:30a
Promotional graphic for the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Academic Nursing Leadership Conference, November 2, 2025. Features Whitney Kilgore, Ph.D., Chief Academic Officer at iDesign, with the session title ‘From Gaps to Gains | Using Technology to Transform Nursing Competency Alignment.’ Includes the iDesign and AACN logos.
October 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Here it is... the 2026 EDUCAUSE Top 10!
2026 EDUCAUSE Top 10 - Making Connections 1: Collaborative Cybersecurity 2: The Human Edge of AI 3: Data Analytics for Operational and Financial Insights 4: Building a Data-Centric Culture Across the Institution 5: Knowledge Management for Safer AI 6: Measured Approaches to New Technologies 7: Technology Literacy for the Future Workforce 8: From Reactive to Proactive 9: AI-Enabled Efficiencies and Growth 10: Decision-Maker Data Skills and Literacy
October 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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The AI Tsunami is here. Education must be systemically redesigned.

The answer is Interactionalism: using AI to foster dialogical learning and assess processes (not just products). AI helps us become "more deeply and distinctly human".

er.educause.edu/articles/202...

@educause.bsky.social
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October 28, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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AI is not a collapse, it's a catalyst.

@educause.bsky.social article with the opinion that the goal is to deliver artisanal-quality learning at an industrial scale. AI handles the repetitive tasks (24/7 Socratic tutoring) to let human faculty focus on mentorship.

er.educause.edu/articles/202...
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October 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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By 2030, we must adopt agentic AI and embodied AI (robots) to create a "synergetic campus" that democratizes mastery-based learning at scale. Delaying adoption risks being left permanently behind.

#HigherEdAI #FutureofHigherEd #EdTech

www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Futuristic university building illuminated by glowing blue digital energy streams, symbolizing data connectivity and technology integration across campus. The image features the title “The Synergetic Campus: Higher Ed by 2030” against a twilight sky, representing the transformation of higher education through innovation and digital synergy.
October 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Enrollment Strategy WIN: Coppin State University is up 26% in overall enrollment & has its largest freshman class in 25 years.

The secret? Offering in-state tuition to students from states without an #HBCU.

www.insidehighered.com/news/institu...
The incoming class at Coppin State pose in the shape of the institution’s initials.
October 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Need to improve hundreds of online courses without a full redesign? 🤯

@snhu.edu's BOPs (Program-Level Optimizations) model is scalable, data-informed, and effective. See how they reduced course melt and boosted satisfaction.

Join the Spark Session: Oct 22, 11:15 AM MT.
bit.ly/WCET2025_iDe...
Promotional graphic for WCET 2025 conference session hosted by iDesign and Southern New Hampshire University. The session is titled “BOP-It: Inside SNHU’s Scalable Course Optimization Model,” scheduled for October 22nd from 11:15 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Mountain Time in room Colorado A-B. Featured speakers are Brian Tidwell from SNHU and Leah Davis from iDesign, with their headshots shown below the session details. iDesign and Southern New Hampshire University logos appear at the top of the image.
October 15, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Stop solving fast. Solve smart.

Our live preconference workshop on networked consultancy helps you pause and reframe urgent #highered challenges. Bring your problem, leave with a repeatable process.

Limited seats for this experiment: Oct 21, 9-11 AM MT.
bit.ly/WCET_2025
Promotional graphic for the WCET 2025 conference. The headline reads, “Meet us at WCET!” Below, it highlights a featured workshop titled “Stop Solving the Wrong Problems: A Live Experiment in Better Decision Making.” Featured speakers include Brian Fleming, Founder of Design Futures, and Whitney Kilgore, Co-Founder and Chief Academic Officer at iDesign. The event takes place in Denver, Colorado, on October 21st, 2025, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Mountain Time. The WCET logo appears at the top with circular graphics and light blue design elements in the background.
October 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Nursing schools are stuck: 66,000 qualified applicants were turned away in 2023 due to limited hospital clinical placements. The debate centers on whether simulation training should count for more required hours.

#NursingShortage #HigherEd

hechingerreport.org/nurses-are-i...
Four healthcare professionals in blue scrubs are actively engaged in a medical simulation, gathered around a patient training dummy while using tablets and monitoring vital signs on large screens.
October 9, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Brian Fleming, Ed.D: Don't fall into the Solution Trap. Institutions are in VUCA Denial, believing data can eliminate irreducible uncertainty. We need VUCA Readiness: resilience, not prediction.

bnfleming.substack.com/p/vuca-denial

#HigherEd #Strategy #EdTech #VUCA
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October 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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The nation's first! @olemiss.bsky.social Law School launched a fully online M.S. in Air and Space Law, built in collaboration with @idesignedu.org. It creates an accessible pathway for non-lawyers to lead in the $1.8T aerospace policy sector.

bit.ly/4gZqBsZ

#SpaceLaw #OnlineLearning
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October 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Employers are focused on durable skills: 70% say these are deciding factors in promotions. Higher ed must integrate skills education and work-based learning to meet this demand.

#HigherEd #CareerReadiness #DurableSkills

www.insidehighered.com/news/student...
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October 2, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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The structural problems don't end at admissions. Institutions are scoring an "own goal" on student persistence by failing to solve basic course scheduling. Fix the system that is pushing students out.

onedtech.philhillaa.com/p/the-course...

#HigherEd #StudentSuccess #EdTech @philhill1.bsky.social
Chart of U.S. higher ed students taking at least one online course, 2012–2023. Pre-COVID online enrollment grew steadily, spiked to 74% in 2020, then settled around 54% by 2023—well above pre-pandemic levels.
October 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Great news: 80% of students rate their education highly. The mandate? Limit high-stakes exams (45%) & connect learning to careers (40%). The solution is intentional #coursedesign.

www.insidehighered.com/news/student...
Survey chart showing more students rated their education quality as good or excellent in 2025 than in 2024 across all institution types.
September 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Generative AI isn't a threat, it's an ultimatum. A new piece from @insidehighered.com argues that higher ed must reinvent itself and focus on the skills machines cannot replicate.

er.educause.edu/articles/202...

#HigherEd #EdTech #AIinEducation
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September 25, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Nursing informatics is on the rise! A new article from Daily Nurse breaks down the benefits and challenges of emerging tech in the field, from AI to telehealth. It's a must-read for anyone in healthcare.

#NursingInformatics #HealthTech #EHR #AI #Nursing

www.dailynurse.com/articles/nur...
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September 24, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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@idesignedu.org welcomes three nationally recognized leaders to our new Board of Directors: Dr. Amelia Manning, Thomas B. Evans, and Dr. Vernon Johnson!

bit.ly/iDesign_Board

#iDesign #HigherEd #EdTech #Leadership
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September 23, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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@brandeisuniversity.bsky.social is investing $25M to reinvent the liberal arts, requiring students to get job-ready skills and an internship. This trend is heating up in #highereducation.

#HigherEd #LiberalArts #CareerReadiness

www.insidehighered.com/news/institu...
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September 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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This week student success: a rundown on the "leaky pipeline" in community college admissions, a campaign at Hamilton College encouraging students to "embrace failure," and a baffling study on how students choose majors.

#HigherEd #StudentSuccess #Admissions

onedtech.philhillaa.com/articles/202...
Infographic titled 'Disconnected Recruitment and Retention Efforts Leave Students Behind' showing a student pipeline: 1,000 applied, 400 enrolled, 300 retained after the first term, and 200 completed a credential. It highlights challenges at each stage, including inefficient manual processes, ineffective SEM plan, murky ownership and tech rigidity, confusing onboarding process, lack of data visibility, staff capacity issues, and unclear pathways.
September 17, 2025 at 1:25 PM