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3 education innovations to watch in 2024 (hint: it’s not just about skills and AI)

Christensen Institute

Despite these growing proof points, efforts to improve education lean on mental models, theories of change, and investment strategies that routinely ignore the social side of opportunity. I think that’s because in most conversations about education innovation today, skills are the “what”, and tech-enabled efficiency is the “how.”

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A policy playbook for school innovation, given continued struggles for students

Christensen Institute

As educators, policymakers, and the media fret that the unprecedented levels of federal investment in our nation’s schools during the pandemic haven’t had the impact that they had hoped on helping students rebound, some have asked how policy can help schools rethink and reinvent schooling rather than stick with the status quo.

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University Education – A New Model for a New Era

IdeaSpies

CATEGORIES. INNOVATION BLOG. Search for: Clever Ideas , Innovation Blog. University Education – A New Model for a New Era. The consequence to the student is painful, and the cost to our economy is profound: these graduates are taking roles that someone without an expensive university education can easily fill.

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8 higher ed resolutions from innovative college and university presidents for 2023

Christensen Institute

For decades, higher education was defined by rankings lists, with those at the bottom scurrying to catch up to those at the top. Indeed, in a moment of generic gloom about the future of higher education, online institutions have seen their enrollment grow , especially among traditional-aged students. Drive equity from the ground up.

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Students need internships, but internships need disrupting

Christensen Institute

In other words, two offerings in the same general category are best suited to very different functions. In other words, work-integrated learning opportunities (like everything else in education) shouldn’t be one-size-fits-all. Outcomes data will reveal where more modular, affordable solutions could and should arise.

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How college presidents can last in the job to create lasting change

Christensen Institute

Surveying the long tenures and transformational impact of higher education leaders like Freeman Hrabowski, Michael Crow, Paul LeBlanc, Richard Levin and Pat McGuire surfaces a daunting reality. The Tools of Cooperation theory groups these tools into four different categories: leadership tools, power tools, management tools, and culture tools.

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Multiple Generations. One Dynamic Workforce.

Daniel Burrus

Resolving the Fear of Change with Educational Collaboration In 2021, we began to face a phenomenon known as the Great Resignation. Be an educator. We live in a Both/And world , and as mentioned earlier in this blog, “out with the old and in with the new” is not seamlessly applicable. Don’t be in that category.

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