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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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Where Innovation Matters, IT Matters: January 1, 2003

© 2003 Peter M. Siegel EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 38, no. 6 (November/December 2003): 96–97. Where Innovation Matters, IT Matters Peter M. Siegel In May 2003, the Harvard Bu…
What Nonprofits and For-Profits Can Learn from Each Other About Teaching and Learning: October 19, 2011 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference
Come for a panel discussion with representatives from nonprofit and for-profit institutions on teaching and learning issues where the sectors may learn from each other—with a focus on technology,…
What NERCOMP Innovators Can Learn from Hollywood. Keynote presentation by Scott Kirsner at NERCOMP 2008: March 21, 2008

Notes from: “What NERCOMP Innovators Can Learn from Hollywood” A podcast of this general session is available at http://connect.educause.edu/blog/gbayne/podcastwhatinnovatorscanl/46455. …
What Does It Take to Make Innovation Work? Measure and Understand the Impact: October 21, 2011 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference
In the Netherlands, higher education institutions are jointly seeking to optimize the preconditions to facilitate promising IT initiatives by determining successful approaches through measurable im…
What Do We Have in Common?: March 23, 2012

“Today, the distribution and reuse of information digitally via the Internet is rapidly changing the game, rewarding those who instead aggregate and scale toward a common infrastructure. It is…
Welcome to the 2011 ECAR Symposium: Changing the Game: July 28, 2011

Presentation at the 2011 ECAR Symposium, July 28, 2011, in Chicago, Illinois. Welcome and opening remarks. How to Cite This Work : Grajek, Susan. "Welcome to the 2011 ECAR Symposium:…
WebCT, An EDUCAUSE Gold Partner - Innovation and Outcomes: Voices of Experience: March 13, 2006 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2006
E-learning technology has become an enabling force behind innovative programs and practices at educational institutions around the world. Join WebCT to hear about the latest advancements in WebCT&#…
Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning?: January 1, 2006

The Web version of this article differs somewhat from the print edition, reflecting recent and fast developments in the Web 2.0 world. Nothing has been cut from the earlier, print version; inst…
Waste Not the Learning Productivity Crisis: Transforming Educational Opportunity into Educational Assurance: February 4, 2010

The time is right for higher education to pursue “best for the world” strategies enabled by the strategic use of information technology to improve learning productivity by serving more studen…
Venture Academy: November 28, 2012

Opening in Fall 2013, this 6-12 charter school in Minneapolis MN is designed to educate the next generation of innovative entrepreneurs and inventors who can use knowledge to pull apart, reas…

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