Our Initiatives

Uprooting Learning’s Wicked Problems

Investing in a New Direction for Education

WGU Labs offers learning design and development services tailored to your long-term goals, making your learning more effective, engaging, equitable, and scalable. Pay only for the services you need. All of our services can be customized, bundled, or used individually.

Our Approach

Education needs effective and scalable solutions for learners who are left out. Our initiatives skip broad, mass-appeal approaches in which profit or traditional measures are the goal. Instead, we focus on bold projects, pushing ourselves, our partners, and postsecondary education into areas not yet ventured to uncover solutions for learners who must navigate systemic barriers to reach opportunity. In pursuit of that goal, our initiatives are flexible, assuming the format that is needed to meaningfully understand a challenge and inform a solution.

Our Initiatives

Experiment

Progress depends on exploration. We lead bold, focused experiments to understand what is effective so institutions can make informed decisions at scale and confidently expect a return on investment.

Solutions Lab

Collaborate

For too long advancement in higher education has happened in silos. We convene stakeholders around critical, well-defined initiatives to develop comprehensive solutions.

College Innovation Network

Our Impact

Students

177,287

The College Innovation Network was a diverse group of higher education institutions whose collective work improved the student experience in a tech-enabled world.

Learning Pilots

2

The Solutions Lab is a structured research sandbox that conducts small-scale, exploratory pilots to uncover scalable solutions.

Ideas

118

WGU Creates!™ is a WGU program that supports university-wide goals to transform the higher education sector through innovation and ideation.

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