What could be more innovative that custom-building an adaptive learning platform from the ground-up to specifically tailor learning to your institution’s mission. More...
5 universities taking innovation from buzzword to practice
By Meris Stansbury - . Are college and university investments in innovation worth the time and money? Only if your incubators lead to scalable, sustainable success, says new research. More...
What is Innovation in Education?

•Backchannel: •Go to http://www.downes.ca/chat •Select What is Innovation in Education?
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Live Stream http://t.co/9s0nCpubIj. More...
Innovative Knowledge-Practice Networks
By Thomas Carey. In the first part of this post, we reviewed the concept of faculty emotional ownership in an innovative teaching community as a way to reduce Not-Invented-Here obstacles to scaling up effective teaching practices for student success. In this follow-up, we’re going to focus on emerging developments that are centered on course-related collaborations. That usually involves some kind of repository of shared course resources, but it’s important to see the repository as a tool for supporting the collaboration (not the other way round, where the shared course is seen as the targeted result and the collaboration is just there to support it). More...
Collaboration, not Commoditization
By Thomas Carey. In a previous post I made a case for the importance of emotional ownership in scaling up educational innovations, in particular how we could “build a bigger Here” as a way to address Not-Invented-Here obstacles. In this post I want to drill down on some encouraging new opportunities to build emotional ownership of educational innovations. More...
Innovation managériale : inspirer et respirer l'entreprise

Speculate to accumulate? You need to innovate to innovate

By Davina Madden. How many new innovation tools are being pioneered in UK universities? Does higher education have an adequate innovation system of its own? Do our higher education institutions know What Works? More...
Is it worth investing in student enterprise through innovation funding?

By Alice Frost. Our exploratory study of the value of student start-ups published today and our report last year: Knowledge exchange performance and the impact of HEIF in the English higher education sector address these questions. More...
Le compte à rebours est lancé : plus que 50 jours avant le GMA 6
Le programme du GMA 6 est dès à présent final. Les débats promettent d'être passionnants et très stimulants!
Consacré au thème de L'innovation sociale: défis et perspectives pour l'enseignement supérieur, cette 6e édition du GMA invitera les participants à discuter de la manière dont les associations d'établissements d'enseignement supérieur et leurs membres peuvent avoir un impact sur le développement d'une société plus durable et contribuer à l'élaboration et à la mise en place de solutions nouvelles et innovantes aux défis d'aujourd'hui et de demain.
Pour vous inscrire et en apprendre plus au sujet du programme, rendez-vous sur le site web du GMA dès maintenant!
Contact: Élodie Boisfer, Chargée de programme. Voir l'article...
The Final Countdown Has Started : 50 days until the IAU GMA 6
The Programme of the IAU GMA 6 is now final. Debates promise to be exciting and very stimulating!
Focusing on Social Innovation: Challenges and Perspectives for Higher Education, this 6th edition of the GMA will invite participants to discuss whether and how associations of higher education institutions and their members can have an impact on the development of a more sustainable society and can contribute to find new and innovative solutions for today's and tomorrow's challenges.
To register for the event or to learn more about the programme, please go to the GMA website now!
Contact: Élodie Boisfer, Programme Officer. More...