
Higher Ed, Open Innovation, and 'The Smartest Places on Earth'

By Steven Mintz. 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. Read more...
By Steven Mintz. 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. Read more...
By Colin Mathews. Proponents of digital badges and alternative credentials have valuable goals, writes Colin Mathews, but are pushing a universal language of credentialing that is unnecessary and unfair. Read more...
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. In higher education, it’s paramount that we be able to recognize patterns and trends early in the life of a cutting-edge project. More...
Le Ministère du Travail, de l’Emploi, de la Formation professionnelle et du Dialogue social, la Fondation Agir Contre l’Exclusion (FACE), et EDF ont annoncé ce jeudi 13 octobre, sur le site EDF Paris - Saclay, le lancement opérationnel de la Fondation Innovations Pour les Apprentissages (FIPA). Voir l'article...
Assemblée générale donnant naissance à l'Agence de Développement et de l'innovation à Mayotte (Adim). Voir l'article...
Situé à Paris, le Lab de Pôle Emploi accueille aussi bien les demandeurs d’emploi que les collaborateurs de Pôle Emploi, les partenaires et startups du secteur de l’emploi. Ils peuvent se retrouver pour un travail collaboratif dans le but de développer de nouveaux services pour les usagers, toujours dans une démarche créative. Voir l'article...
By Andreas Schleicher. People have quite different views on the role that digital technology can and should play in schools. But we just can’t ignore how digital tools have so fundamentally transformed the world around schools. More...