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Many professors worry when they hear the word “innovation,” or when they see college leaders looking to the business world to upgrade practices o
Driving academic innovation is a truly wicked problem. There is the motivational challenge: Convincing stakeholders that there is a pressing problem – whether it’s student completion, student engagement, learning outcomes, workforce preparation, affordability, or tapping new revenue streams and markets – that needs to be solved, without diluting the quality of an education. Then there is the bystander challenge: Whenever responsibility for solving a problem is diffuse, no one is likely to take charge.
From corporate giants to startups to world class labs, here are the 6 things every successful innovator has in common.
To be innovative, companies need to employ people with a wide range of technical and non-technical skills, a new study has found.
This report and toolkit is meant for universities, colleges, community colleges, not-for-profits ,and organizations that serve the higher education landscape who want to reimagine their vision of higher education.
Before you call in the consultants, stress test your business strategies, intrapreneurship and culture.
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Innovation is now a currency of its own, a standard by which institutions are judged and even ranked. Experts offer three guiding principles for how to make it work.
Anyone who reads the vast, rapidly expanding literature on innovation in higher education will be struck by the pervasiveness of certain discourses and tropes. Three stand out.
“No one can see a bubble. That’s what makes it a bubble.” So says a disgruntled investor to hedge fund manager Michael Burry in the 2015 hit film “The Big Short,” skeptical of the quirky but brilliant Burry’s prediction that the U.S. subprime mortgage market is primed to implode. As we all know,
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We recently told you about Canada’s blossoming tech scene. Now, some of the world’s biggest education influencers are gathering in Toronto to shape our schools of the future. Andreas Schleicher, a Director at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), is just one acclaimed speaker who’ll be tackling themes of big data, gamification, social media, coding and digital culture at …
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University of Sydney has invested $110 million in its centre for nanoscience research, alongside $40 million from the federal government.
Experts weigh in on the challenges of student success and the need for innovation in higher ed.
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