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Society looks to higher education as a source of innovation to address major challenges and fuel economic vitality. IT can be a source, catalyst, and supporter of innovation. As the higher education technology association, EDUCAUSE embraces the principle of innovation. EDUCAUSE understands not only the importance of innovation to higher education but also the supporting role that technology can play as a tool for innovation in the learning, discovery, and engagement offered by colleges and universities. Please share your showcases for innovation with us.

Articles and Reports

A Disruptive Look at Competency-Based Education: How the Innovative Use of Technology Will Transform the College Experience, Center for American Progress, June 2012. This issues brief from Center for American Progress, provides a short primer on competency-based education in postsecondary education. The author then discusses the four elements of disruptive innovation theory and uses these elements as a guide to study education initiatives that could promote disruptive innovation.
College 2.0: An Entrepreneurial Approach to Reforming Higher Education, June 2012. "College 2.0: An Entrepreneurial Approach to Reforming Higher Education," is a report that was created as part of a Kauffman Foundation retreat in December 2011 that brought together a panel of 30 education analysts and practitioners to examine the challenges facing higher education and generate ideas to overcome them.
The entire issue of the EDUCAUSE Review Magazine, Volume 45, Number 1, January/February 2010 is largely devoted to innovation and the future of higher education.
2012 Horizon Report, ELI and NMC, January 2012
The Future of Higher Education: Beyond the Campus, EDUCAUSE White Paper, January 2010

Podcasts and Videos

Education Innovation Clusters: Accelerating Innovation through Interdisciplinary Partnerships, EDUCAUSE Live! August 8, 2012
What Does It Take to Make Innovation Work? Measure and Understand the Impact , EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2011
Doing More with Much Less: Pursuing an Innovative Teaching and Learning Agenda in a Time of Fiscal Austerity, ELI Annual Meeting, January 2010
Advancing Innovation in Teaching and Learning in an Era of Budget Cuts, EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2009

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Podcast: Leading Sustained, Desired Change: November 28, 2012

Speakers: Laurie G. Antolovic, Deputy Chief Information Officer, Indiana University Bloomington Michael Kubit , Director ITS Run, Case Western Reserve University Emerg…
Podcast: Ganesan Ravishanker on the Democracy and Pitfalls of Data Analytics: July 12, 2012

Ganesan Ravishanker is Chief Information Officer at Wellesley College. In this conversation he shares his cautious insights into the challenges and benefits of analytics. …
Podcast: Christina Royal on Innovation and eLearning: March 1, 2012

Christina Royal is associate vice president for eLearning and innovation at Cuyahoga Community College. In this interview with Ethan Benatan , she discusses how she strives to create a w…
EDU11: There's Never Been a Better Time to Be an Innovator: November 7, 2011

Innovation is an imperative . This discussion with Aneesh Chopra , United States Chief Technology Officer, and Jim Shelton III , Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and …
EDU11: Innovation Trenz: November 4, 2011

Linda Cureton , the CIO of NASA , is well-known for leveraging social networking tools, leadership skills, and innovation in an organization that shares many characteristics and issues…
Podcast Interview: A. Michael Berman on Innovation and the Economic Realities of Higher Education: July 22, 2011

A. Michael Berman is Chief Information Officer for California State University, Channel Islands. In this interview with Colin Currie , Berman talks about creating and maintaining in…
Podcast: Can We Do It? Making It Work in the New World: June 14, 2011

Listen to this session from the EDUCAUSE 2011 Southeast Regional Conference to hear stories from three campuses on how they delivered specific initiatives, driven by campus need, to overcom…
EDUCAUSE Now: - #34 - 1) CIOs Staying Nimble 2) Policy and Law for Higher Ed IT: December 9, 2010

This month on EDUCAUSE Now , we feature two discussions. First, we hear from three university CIOs about how they keep their organizations nimble and what keeps them up at night! We also featu…
E10 Session Podcast: Collaboration in a Competitive Environment: Sustaining Success Through Sharing Services: November 4, 2010

JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) uses public funds to provide national shared IT services to all the U.K. universities including the U.K.-wide education and research network, SuperJanet…
E10 Session Podcast: Service in a Global Network University in 2010 and Beyond: November 4, 2010

"To serve, to lead, to innovate": living up to this purpose articulated in 1998 for Information Technology Services at NYU seemed a reasonable challenge. Then context changed: for the e…

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