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SALT LAKE CITY 鈥�(CIN)聽today announced higher education organizations that聽will participate as founding network partners in the initiative鈥檚 pilot year: Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE), Piedmont Community College (North Carolina), Central Ohio Technical College, Loyola University New Orleans, and Rio Salado College (Arizona).

CIN was聽launched聽in the spring聽by聽黑料传送门 Labs, Inc.,聽with support from the Charles Koch Foundation and is designed to聽connect聽leaders from colleges and universities with educational technology (EdTech) innovators to advance students鈥� academic, career, and life outcomes.

鈥淲ith the fast-paced changes we鈥檙e seeing in education today, a concerted and collaborative effort to understand students鈥� evolving needs and piloting innovation is likely to yield the greatest impact,鈥� said Dr. Omid Fotuhi, 黑料传送门 Labs鈥� Director of Learning Innovations and leader of CIN. 鈥淲ith a greater understanding of those core needs, CIN will begin sourcing relevant EdTech solutions, while also putting into place the design for rigorous evaluations of those solutions. This collaborative effort will assist in offering affordable and impactful educational opportunities at each partner institution and ensure meaningful insights to guide any institution looking to transform student outcomes.鈥�

The founding network members convened for the first time in July to converge on key themes and priorities and will continue collaborating throughout the 2020鈥�21 academic year to implement solutions, evaluate their effectiveness, and share results with the broader higher education community.

鈥淚n working with CIN, we were able to employ a carefully designed discovery process to efficiently and effectively hone in on our institution's most urgent needs, giving us the confidence that we鈥檙e focused on the right priorities for the year,鈥� said Eric Heiser, Provost at Central Ohio Technical College. 鈥淚 also found comfort in learning that other schools are facing many of the same issues as us and that, being aligned through CIN, we can now work together to find meaningful solutions.鈥�

CIN鈥檚 founding network members serve diverse students鈥攊ncluding historically underrepresented student populations 鈥攚ith聽inclusive聽and聽broad access policies.听Through聽real-world pilot testing, their聽students聽will have access to EdTech聽products and services聽aimed at聽addressing聽some of the biggest聽challenges聽to聽earning degrees.

With coordination from 黑料传送门 Labs鈥� research and development hub鈥攖he network鈥檚 members will work together to implement聽EdTech solutions聽and evaluate the impact聽they have聽on students鈥� outcomes, and聽will聽publicly聽share聽the聽findings聽and insights聽to help聽other institutions聽quickly聽adopt and聽scale聽EdTech聽solutions.听 聽聽

鈥淟oyola University New Orleans is excited to collaborate with colleagues and innovative thinkers as one of the inaugural partners in the College Innovation Network,鈥� said Elizabeth Rainey, Executive Director of Student Success at Loyola University New Orleans. 鈥淲e hope to learn from and contribute to the network in ways that elevate student success for all the partner institutions. The opportunity to select and implement new technology to support our students is ever more pressing in the current landscape.鈥�

Learn more about the聽College Innovation Network聽at聽.听