Networked Improvement Learning and Support (NILS™) Platform
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Networked Improvement Learning and Support (NILS™) Platform
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WHAT IS NILS?
NILS is an online platform designed to facilitate the initiation and development of NICs [Networked Improvement Communities] working on shared problems of practice in a disciplined manner. Its main goal is to promote social, organizational learning through curation and synthesis, as well as to disseminate tacit and explicit knowledge for improvement in education by moving much of what we currently do face-to-face in improvement practice into a virtual learning environment.
NILS ROADMAP
At the Carnegie Foundation, the development of NILS is treated as an improvement project. Through iterative testing and PDSA cycles, the platform is constantly evolving.
NILS was initially developed through collaboration with the Tennessee Early Literacy Network and the Student Agency Improvement Community. Based on feedback from this first phase, Carnegie further developed the platform and onboarded the Early Literacy Meta-Network and the Rural Innovative School Leadership network within a second phase. A third phase, which will see the public release of the NILS code base, is currently in progress. Going forward, there are plans to include enhanced features for social learning and connection management, expansions to the current PDSA and driver diagram process flows, and enhanced data tracking and synthesis to derive knowledge from a NIC’s data collection cycles.
NILS is an online platform designed to facilitate the initiation and development of NICs [Networked Improvement Communities] working on shared problems of practice in a disciplined manner. Its main goal is to promote social, organizational learning through curation and synthesis, as well as to disseminate tacit and explicit knowledge for improvement in education by moving much of what we currently do face-to-face in improvement practice into a virtual learning environment.
NILS ROADMAP
At the Carnegie Foundation, the development of NILS is treated as an improvement project. Through iterative testing and PDSA cycles, the platform is constantly evolving.
NILS was initially developed through collaboration with the Tennessee Early Literacy Network and the Student Agency Improvement Community. Based on feedback from this first phase, Carnegie further developed the platform and onboarded the Early Literacy Meta-Network and the Rural Innovative School Leadership network within a second phase. A third phase, which will see the public release of the NILS code base, is currently in progress. Going forward, there are plans to include enhanced features for social learning and connection management, expansions to the current PDSA and driver diagram process flows, and enhanced data tracking and synthesis to derive knowledge from a NIC’s data collection cycles.
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Networked Improvement Learning and Support (NILS™) Platform. (n. d.). Retrieved May 1, 2022 from https://www.carnegiefoundation.org/resources/nils/
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