Building a Culture of Innovation in Higher Education
Published in: Education
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- 1. Created in partnership between & Building a Culture of Innovation in Higher Education: Design & Practice for Leaders Emerging Lessons and a New Tool April 2015 Structure & Process Resource Allocation Capacity Leadership Communication Learning Agenda Policy Environment
- 2. “The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright and Novelist
- 3. Introduction Why Focus on Higher Ed? What We Learned What’s Innovation & Culture All About? Putting it Together: “Culture of Innovation” Why Education Innovation Can Be Difficult Building Culture Within a Shifting Landscape Organization as the Unit of Change Factors Driving Innovation Culture A New Tool for Higher Education Leaders How to Use This Tool Defining Key Terms Innovation Scorecard Tool: Assessing Culture of Innovation Suggested Action Steps Concluding Thoughts Who We Are About the Authors Acknowledgements Consulted Works 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 52 53 54 55 57 14 15 18 20 50 Contents 2 The Learning Accelerator By Bryan Setser and Holly Morris Significant contributions by Nicole Falcone Designs by Catherine Lange
- 4. 3 2Revolutions, in partnership with The Learning Accelerator, released a publication in 2014: So You Think You Want to Innovate? Emerging Lessons and a New Tool for State and District Leaders Working to Build a Culture of Innovation. The publication provided an analysis of what innovation culture means within an education context; described why it's essential that we all get better at building it; introduced a new framework that defines the factors that influence a robust and healthy culture of innovation; and shared a self-assessment tool that educational leaders can use on their path to building innovation culture. This work builds on that effort and methodology, but focuses, instead, on the higher education landscape. Now more than ever we have to fulfill our promise to provide a viable path for young people from college to the workforce that equips them with the intellectual, emotional and experiential preparation necessary to face, tackle and solve complex social problems. Transformative solutions to the challenges before us are within sight, if we cultivate our human capital to respond thoughtfully and courageously. To prepare today’s students to meet our most pressing challenges, we need to build the future of higher education...now. 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 do this work; who want to reimagine their vision of higher education. Rethinking something, tinkering with it, breaking it apart and starting over, all requires an innovator’s mindset. But how can higher education institutions cultivate that? And who is already doing work in this area to make it happen? That’s what this report works to uncover and share. To do this next round of research and analysis, 2Revolutions partnered with EDUCAUSE’s Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC). For the past five years, NGLC has accelerated educational innovation by encouraging institutions to strategically and creatively apply technology to dramatically improve college readiness and completion in the United States. Providing investment capital to expand the use of proven and emerging learning technologies, collecting and sharing evidence of what works and fostering a community of innovators and adopters, NGLC has stimulated the development of a variety of tools, solutions and institutional transformations that are poised to significantly improve the quality of learning experiences in the United States. Because many potentially breakthrough solutions are being developed and tested by educators, institutions, technologists and entrepreneurs, too often they operate with little access to each other or to opportunities to disseminate their innovations. Support is needed to refine and rigorously test their solutions, to connect with other like-minded innovators, and to develop strategies to broaden their reach and impact. This is the “why” behind our partnership. Introduction