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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

Updated September 2012

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Napster, Udacity, and the Academy: November 12, 2012

Clay Shirky provides a thoughtful discussion in this blog on MOOCs and its early stages of possible disruption of higher education. Clay Shirky p…
The Ultimate eLearning Design and Development Checklist: April 9, 2012

Blogger Nicole Legault created a comprehensive checklist for those involved in the design and development of eLearning courses. Subject areas include; Instructional Design Assessments…
The Evolving LMS Market, Part I and Part II: December 21, 2010

In this post,the author discusses what the data are telling us so far about the recent shifts in the market, describe how colleges and universities come to decide that they need to go to market f…
Social Media guidelines: June 4, 2009

This blog from Florida International University provides some guidelines for how to communicate on behalf of FIU on social media sites. This blog…
Toward a Product Evaluation Framework: March 7, 2010

This evaluation framework is offered not as a final model, but as a route by which people can think through and share some ideas around this goal. Conversation, disagreement, and dialogue about t…
Learning about Lecture Capture Technology: February 21, 2010

This blogger is in the process of picking a lecture capture technology and is blogging about the experience and their findings. This blogger is i…
Copyright Threats End UCLA Library’s Online Video System: February 5, 2010

Michael Weinberg writes in a Public Knowledge blog, "Being able to watch videos on your own time is a great boon to students. There is no practical reason that a student has to be in a certa…
The Meaning of Open: December 21, 2009

A blog entry from Google executive, Jonathan Rosenberg, Senior Vice President of Product Management on the meaning on "Open". A b…
Cyber-Insurance Advancement Underscores Data Breach Risk Recognition: January 15, 2009

While the market for cyber-insurance remains largely nascent, with most private sector organizations still unable to adequately safeguard their financial and operational well-being against a majo…
Got Cyber Insurance?: March 31, 2007

Q. What do most companies not have none of, most companies think they have some of, but no company ever wants to use any of? A. Cyber Insurance …