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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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Chapter 10: University of Phoenix: May 2, 2012

A chapter from Game Changers William (Bill) Pepicello Introduction The University of Phoenix was founded in 1976 on the principle that a large number of people wished to earn a d…
Dancing with History: A Cautionary Tale: February 4, 2010

© 2010 Brenda Gourley. EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 45, no. 1 (January/February 2010): 30-41 Brenda Gourley ( brendagourley1@gmail.com ) was Vice Chancellor and CEO of The Open Universit…
ELI Releases New White Paper on Seeking Evidence of Impact: June 2, 2011

ELI has released a new white paper, Seeking Evidence of Impact: A Report on the ELI Focus Session , by Malcolm B. Brown and Veronica Diaz (EDUCAUSE). On April 13–14, 2011, the…
Encouraging Faculty Adoption and Innovation in Teaching and Learning with IT: May 18, 2009

A Solutions in Action Webcast - View the session archive . New technologies rise and fall on an almost daily basis in the marketplace, making it increasingly difficult to keep f…
Hallmarks of the Breakthrough Models, #1: Modular Courses: January 15, 2013

Editor’s Note: This post is the first in a series from Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC). Each post highlights a distinguishing design characteristic of NGLC’s recently funded Brea…
Instruction and Technology: Two Pillars of Success: February 17, 2010 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Southwest Regional Conference 2010
The Faculty Innovation Center (FIC) supports instructional innovation by providing faculty and media development services to engineering faculty at the UT Austin. By integrating the science of lear…
Navigating the Next IT Revolution: September 19, 2011

It has become commonplace to open discussions of technology with a nod to the ubiquity of change. Storage, network bandwidth, and computing power double every 18 months. Today's smartphones…
Seeking Evidence of Impact: A Report on the ELI Focus Session: May 26, 2011

On April 13–14, 2011, the ELI teaching and learning community gathered for an online focus session on seeking evidence of impact. This white paper is a synthesis of the key ideas, themes, and …
The Future of Higher Education: Beyond the Campus: January 13, 2010

Higher education’s purpose is to equip students for success in life—in the workplace, in communities, and their personal lives. While this purpose may have remained constant for centuries, th…
University IT: Essential and Strategic in Changing Times: February 4, 2010

© 2010 Jerrold M. Grochow. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.…