Examples of My Work
- The Credentialing Economy: Transformed by and for Its Beneficiaries
This paper was published in the November/December 2013 edition of the EDUCAUSE Review Online and selected as an "Editors' Pick." It's about making credentialing more affordable to all the parties involved, while also scaling up educational justice and attainment. - H. G. Wells' race between education and catastrophe
Learn why humanity's grand challenge to scale up and sustain social, economic, and environmental justice is increasingly educational and technological in its nature. - El Gran Reto de la Educación: Equidad | Logro Académico | Rendición de Cuentas
This 2013 publication is a compilation of my major papers from 2005-2012 translated into the Spanish Language. I'm indebted to my now deceased colleague, Joaquin Huerta, for his effort and kindness in conceiving and completing this project on behalf of our clients and colleagues in the Spanish-speaking world. - Presentation in Spanish
This is the latest version of my presentation in the Spanish language. - Should Educational Attainment Be a Free and Open Common Good
This is draft commentary (2 pages). - Is Education's Past Its 2050 Prologue?
My most recently published paper is about educational attainment and justice and thier economic governance (through an Education Leadership Commons). - Adaptive Leadership for the Completions Priority: Establishing an Education Leadership Commons
A Recent Draft Paper on How to Redesign Education. - Education Leadership Commons
This "prospectus" explains the intent to form a nonprofit, non-governmental economic governence organization to enable education reform that serves equally both education providers and thier external investors. - Facing Education's Mounting Challenges with Collaboration and IT
ECAR Research Bulletin published on April 12, 2011. - Education's Priority Challenges
This is my latest attempt to capture the current challenges facing education providers and education's external "investors." - Strategic Thinking about Educational Attainment
I update this document frequently and share it with those interested in thinking strategically and integratively about the grand challenges facing education - and the necessary, but not sufficient, role of digital technologies in meeting those challenges. - Affording and Quality-Assuring Educational Attainment
This is my latest paper. I will update it periodically, and will maintain the latest version here -- date stamped at the bottom of page 1. - Waste Not the Learning Productivity Crisis
This monograph is "organic" -- i.e., edited and updated periodically. It is written from a policy perspective to offer a comprehensive overview of the current "learning productivity" crisis. It goes on to explain why and how resolving the crisis requires the strategic use of technology, and it proposes an Education Assurance Consortium to as part of the solution. - Let's Not Waste a Perfectly Good Learning Productivity Crisis
This draft explains learning productivity, WHY the time is right to use IT to increase it, and HOW to do so. - PRESENTATION
This is my latest presentation related to the themes of this blog. Review it by "playing" it in slideshow mode. After the title slide, navigate from the hotlinked items on the left-side menu column -- the navigational model used by many websites. - Voluntary Counter-Reformation: Stepping Up to the Challenge
The EDUCAUSE Review (July/August 2007) published this amended, abridged form of my white paper on measurable performance improvement. - Measurable Performance Improvement (white paper)
This white paper has been amended and published in abridged form in the 2007 July/August EDUCAUSE Review. - Distance Ed and Institutional Performance
This August 2006 academic computing column for Campus Technology explains why distance ed should be viewed, not as an end in itself, but as a strategy for improving institutional performace. - Winning with Win-Win Sourcing
This February 2006 Academic Computing Column for Campus Technology interprets Thomas Friedman's (The Workd Is Flat) flattening forces as new sourcing models that higher education can adopt in the interest of improving institutional performance through IT-enabled service process redesign. - The Object of Content Management
This July 2005 Academic Computing Column for Campus Technology is about the role of digital content repositories in improving academic performance. Russ Adkins (Broward CC) and Jeff Larson (SunGard Higher Education) supplied most of the expert content for the column.
Biography
Dr. William H. (Bill) Graves is Senior VP, Academic Strategy, at Ellucian. He helps clients develop actionable, IT-enabled strategies for measurably improving upon and accounting for mission performance. More broadly, he views the credentialing economy as a common-good resource that is critical to humanity's grand challenge to advance and sustain social, economic, environmental, and educational justice. His numerous publications and presentations accordingly describe and promote an IT-scaled credentialing economy that is more open and flexible than today's. This vision will require scaling up and sustaining educational justice and attainment while making credentialing more affordable to all of its economic beneficiaries: learners, credential providers, governments, and others.
During the 30 years before joining Ellucian, Graves served the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as math professor, dean, acting academic officer, senior IT officer, and founder of the Institute for Academic Technology, a joint effort with IBM. During those years he served on boards for CAUSE, EDUCAUSE, and the Coalition for Networked Information, and helped launch the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, IMS Global Learning Consortium, and Internet2. Now he serves on governing or advisory organizations for Antioch University, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science, IMS Global Learning Consortium, National Center for Academic Transformation, U.S. Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, and the International Association of University Presidents.