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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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A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change: March 21, 2011

In A New Culture of Learning , Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown explore a second sense of culture, one that not only adapts but integrates change into its process as an environmental va…
Disrupting College: February 9, 2011

A new report discusses how disruptive innovation can deliver quality and affordability to postsecondary education. A new report discusses how d…
Information Technology and Tomorrow's University: A President's Confessions and Advice: February 7, 2011

Jolene Koester ( jolene.koester@csun.edu ) is President of California State University, Northridge. Comments on this article can be posted to the web via the link at the bottom of this p…
The Changing Landscape of Higher Education: February 7, 2011

David J. Staley ( staley.3@osu.edu , David.Staley@harrison.edu ) is Director of the Goldberg Center at The Ohio State University and is National Dean for General Education at Harrison Col…
Evolution and Innovation: November 30, 2010

© 2010 Diana G. Oblinger. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0…
Lightweight Pilots for Faster, Cheaper Innovation: October 13, 2010 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2010 Annual Conference
The pace of technical development and scarcity of resources require us to be more nimble in testing, choosing, and rolling out new solutions and innovations. This session will explore the notion of…
DC News: US House Science, Space, and Technology Subcommittee Hearing on Spectrum Crunch – 4-18-12: April 16, 2012

The U.S. House Science, Space, and Technology Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation holds a hearing on "Avoiding the Spectrum Crunch: Growing the Wireless Economy through Innovation.&qu…
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…
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…
The Future of the Internet IV: February 19, 2010

A survey of nearly 900 Internet stakeholders reveals fascinating new perspectives on the way the Internet is affecting human intelligence and the ways that information is being shared and rendere…

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