Reflecting a major shift in the way students learn and acquire knowledge, GLASS Lab will research and develop digital games to engage students and measure learning.
The mission of the SMILE Consortium is to cause a paradigm shift within education by enabling students to be active agents in their learning through an inquiry-based learning model.
Indeed, Common Core and competency-based learning should be a natural fit, as the former creates learning maps for students to master that can shift the emphasis from time to mastery of deeper learning.
The Scottish government said that although there may be fewer students they are spending more time in college with a shift to full-time courses directly related to the workplace.
Aimed first at companies rather than individual students, the innovation class is intended to spur "a reputational shift" for the school, said Barry Feierstein, chief business officer at University of Phoenix.