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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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Leadership Panel - Looking at the Horizon: Supporting Campus Core Technology: April 16, 2013 | A session at the ACTI Annual Meeting
Thought leaders discuss what they see as top core IT areas for campuses to focus on in the near future. Thought leaders discuss what they see as …
Using Technology to Personalize Learning and Assess Students in Real-Time: October 6, 2011

This paper examines new models of instruction made possible by digital technologies. Pilot projects from across the country are experimenting with different organizations and delivery systems…
Next Generation Learning: Defining and Scaling the Opportunity: 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…
Interview and Interactive Q&A Session with General Session Speaker Elizabeth Coleman, Bennington College: March 13, 2013
Join us for an exclusive interview and take advantage of this unique opportunity to engage in dialogue with the general session speaker who will comment on and discuss her presentation from the f…
The Future is Bright: Reflections on Innovations 2013: March 19, 2013

More than 3,600 administrators and faculty from the nation’s most creative community colleges came together in Dallas March 10 to 13 for the 15 th annual Innovations Conference of the …
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…
Cultivating a Culture of Creativity and Innovation: Learning from Jazz Improvisation - Sponsored by Acquia: March 12, 2013 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference
Today's world involves change at an unprecedented pace. Managing creativity and innovation is becoming the most important responsibility for leaders in this new century. Leaders must build t…
Improvisation and Innovation: Rhetoric and Reality - Sponsored by Tuition Management Systems: March 13, 2013 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference
We are unlikely to achieve the kind of institutional agility we desire—openness to new ideas, responsiveness to a changing world—if we persist in addressing questions of innovation, improvisa…
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 …
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…

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