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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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2012 Horizon Report: February 3, 2012

Co-produced by ELI and NMC each year, the Horizon Report describes six areas of emerging technology that will have significant impact on higher education and creative expression over the next one…
A Disruptive Innovation Arrives: January 1, 2007

© 2007 Ron Bleed EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 42, no. 1 (January/February 2007): 72–73 A Disruptive Innovation Arrives Ron Bleed Ron Bleed is Vice Chancellor Emeritus of the Ma…
A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change: March 21, 2011

In A New Culture of Learning , Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown explore a second sense of culture, one that not only adapts but integrates change into its process as an environmental va…
A ‘Disruptive’ Look at Competency-Based Education: How the Innovative Use of Technology Will Transform the College Experience: June 7, 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 in…
Advancing the Next Generation of Learning through Evidence: What We Learned at ELI 2013: February 8, 2013

Editor's Note: This post originally appeared on the NGLC blog at nextgenlearning.org . Several conversations, sessions, and keynote speakers at this year’s annual meeting of …
Breakthrough Models for College Completion: The Next Generation of Models for Higher Education: November 28, 2012

This compilation of Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) grantee profiles illustrates the innovative approaches of 10 new postsecondary degree program designs awarded grants under NGLC&…
Breakthrough Models for College Readiness: An Introduction to Next Generation Blended Schools: November 28, 2012

This compilation of Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) grantee profiles illustrates the innovative approaches of 20 new blended learning school models awarded grants under NGLC's…
Bringing Business Analytics to the College Campus:Using Fiscal Metrics to Steer Innovation in Postsecondary Educations: September 19, 2011

This Center for American Progress and Delta Project report provides an overview of how business analytics could be used to improve the return on investment in higher education instruction. …
Building Blocks for College Completion: Blended Learning: December 11, 2012

Ten projects funded by Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) in the initiative’s first round of investment in 2011, known as Wave I, sought to scale the adoption of blended learning model…
Business Model Innovation: A Blueprint for Higher Education: November 1, 2012

Christine Flanagan is Student Experience Lab Director for the Business Innovation Factory . Established in 2004, BIF designs, prototypes, and tests new models in education, health car…

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