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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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EDUCAUSE Library Items for Innovation
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A ‘Disruptive’ Look at Competency-Based Education: How the Innovative Use of Technology Will Transform the College Experience
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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…
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Bringing Business Analytics to the College Campus:Using Fiscal Metrics to Steer Innovation in Postsecondary Educations
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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. …
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Clearing the Path: Creating Innovation Space for Serving Over-Age, Under-Credited Students in Competency-Based Pathways
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December 1, 2010
This paper provides guidance on creating competency-based approaches for over-age, under-credited students that have fallen off the track toward graduation. Drawing on a wide range of expertise…
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College 2.0: An Entrepreneurial Approach to Reforming Higher Education
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June 7, 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 …
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Disrupting College
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February 9, 2011
A new report discusses how disruptive innovation can deliver quality and affordability to postsecondary education. A new report discusses how d…
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Lessons Learned from Virtual Schools: Experiences and Recommendations from the Field
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November 1, 2010
Virtual schools are a vibrant movement in education reform—extending the possibilities of learning beyond time and space constraints, and opening access for all students to a world-class educ…
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Next Generation Learning: Defining and Scaling the Opportunity
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January 1, 2011
Parthenon’s Education Practice is pleased to share the publication of Next Generation Learning – Defining and Scaling the Opportunity, co-authored by Parthenon’s Seth Reynolds and Tammy B…
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Rethinking Higher Education Business Models
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March 28, 2012
Information technology has long been seen as a major key to meeting this challenge, but the results thus far have been disappointing. In this brief, the authors argue that the fault is not with …
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School Finance in the Digital-Learning Era
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January 1, 2011
America’s system for financing K-12 education is not neutral about innovation and the use of new technologies. Indeed, that system is stacked against them. To remedy this, our education-fundi…
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The New Voice of the CIO
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December 17, 2009
How are today's chief information officers successfully growing profits for their businesses? The 2009 IBM Global CIO Study explored this and other issues facing CIOs during challenging time…
