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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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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…
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…
Exploring and Designing Breakthrough Models in Higher Education: April 29, 2013

With the release of an updated EDUCAUSE on Campus toolkit , Exploring and Designing Breakthrough Models in Higher Education , Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) com…
Fayette County Public Schools: The STEAM Academy: November 28, 2012

Urban Fayette County Public Schools is designing and implementing this blended high school in partnership with the University of Kentucky so that students will graduate college and career rea…
Generation Schools Network: West Generation Academy: November 28, 2012

This Denver public 6-12 school operated by Generation Schools Network, which opened in Fall 2012, redesigned the academic model to a rotational blended model for greater personalization, more t…
Kicking Up Dust in Austin at SXSWedu: March 8, 2013

By, Van L. Davis, Ph.D., Director of Special Projects, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board This week, NGLC headed off to SXSWedu in sunny Austin, Texas. Only in its third year, this …
Leadership Public Schools: Oakland R&D Campus: November 28, 2012

With this new 9-12 school in Oakland, CA, Leadership Public Schools is expanding its role as “collaborative innovator,” working with teachers and students to design blended learning environ…
Pathway to Possibility: A Framework is Renovated and Refined: April 4, 2013

Last September, Next Generation Learning Challenges published a white paper laying out our perspective on what next generation learning is and what it requires. The six dimensions of the framew…

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