The Human Factor

JANUARY 31, 2024

These avatars are like super-smart computer buddies who are making our learning time way better! It’s not supplanting our educators; it’s simply adding a touch of enjoyable to our examples. With DEEPBRAIN AI avatars, our study halls are changing to turn out to be really fascinating and invigorating. How cool is that?

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Christensen Institute

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Every few years it seems that hype grows around the possibilities of unbundling education. The latest fuel is the emergence of at least 14 states with education savings accounts (ESA) programs that allow families to pay for a variety of educational programs and supports from public funds.

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Christensen Institute

JANUARY 3, 2023

2022 marked a confusing year in the world of education innovation. Together, these made many “new” approaches to education feel too overwhelming to even entertain. Together, these made many “new” approaches to education feel too overwhelming to even entertain. This presents a huge learning opportunity for the field.

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Digital Tonto

JUNE 4, 2023

The simple truth is that change rarely, if ever, starts at the top because it is people with power that create the status quo. That’s why, to bring about genuine change, you need to mobilize people to influence institutions. You have changed me. Change never happens all at once and can’t simply be willed into existence.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

But what struck me about their work is that they also focus on culture and change management. In a time when everyone is focused on analytics, on artificial intelligence, on strategy and on mission, focusing on change and culture is almost counterintuitive, but it's probably what we should be focusing on. Change is difficult.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Shaping Innovation for a Meaningful Change Following on from my initial post, “ Our Need is to Shape Innovation Dynamically, ” this post outlines the eight value-adding points that I can help build out and deliver alongside you in different delivery modules to fit your circumstances and budgets.

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Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Career Innovation Through Continuous Learning Platforms. Learning is a continuous process that is not confined to the classroom alone. Digitization of learning platforms has brought innovation to education. In modern times, learning is becoming a continuous process. None of that would be possible without learning.

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Christensen Institute

MAY 30, 2023

K-12 education has a perennial hunger for change, improvement and innovation. Meanwhile, priorities such as school discipline reform, instituting culturally affirming curriculum, addressing COVID-19 learning loss, treating a youth mental health epidemic and curtailing educator burnout have been added to the mix.

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Tullio Siragusa

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Design Thinking in Education: Shaping Creative Minds for the Future In a world characterized by rapid changes and complex challenges, the traditional education model, which primarily focuses on the dissemination of knowledge, is increasingly proving to be insufficient.

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Christensen Institute

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The concept of value networks explains why districts often struggle to make major changes to their organizational models and why charter schools often find it easier to innovate. There are lots of promising innovations in tiny pockets of the education system, but decades of advocacy and investment have failed to see those innovations scale.

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ImagineNation

APRIL 7, 2024

Because it is currently being challenged by poor sales performance, it has bunkered down and frozen any change initiatives, learning programs or new projects until mid-2025. The company she works for is acknowledged as an entrepreneurial industry leader.

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Christensen Institute

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Applying innovation theory lenses to the trends, patterns, news bites, and field data gathered over the course of 2022, here are our education researchers’ favorite blogs that either they or their colleagues have written this year, and the reasoning behind their picks. Robert Markle, research project manager, education.

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ImagineNation

AUGUST 3, 2021

I was privileged to attend one of the first Theory U; Presencing Leadership for Profound Innovation and Change Workshops presented by the Sloane School of Management, in Boston in 2008. Intentional change and learning. Intentional change and learning.

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Christensen Institute

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The pandemic cast education technology (edtech) into a starring — and some might argue above-its-paygrade — role in education. For many students and overwhelmed parents, virtual learning became synonymous with isolation. After all, virtual learning was put to the test under dire circumstances. Click To Tweet.

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Christensen Institute

MARCH 2, 2023

As part of this increased call-to-action, strategies around accelerated learning, personalized learning, and building students’ relationships have dominated headlines and conference circuits. Increase equitable access to high-touch tutors to accelerate learning. Create a truly personalized education system. Here’s how.

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Christensen Institute

APRIL 5, 2022

Students benefit from a range of learning experiences that happen outside of schools and classrooms. Might it be possible to develop learning ecosystems that stack various learning experiences together to create a formal education? In other words, what if our education systems were more like education ecosystems?

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Idea Champions

JUNE 2, 2020

"Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each." - Plato. Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all." - Aristotle. 7. ." - Buddha.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Strategic Education, Inc., is an education services holding company and was formerly known as Strayer Education, Inc. The company owns online Capella University and Strayer University, as well as non-degree programs schools such as DevMountain, Hackbright Academy, and Sophia Learning. Ben, Welcome!

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Innocentive

DECEMBER 28, 2017

In the quarter-century since the first website was published, the internet has changed our lives. But how much has the power of the online network changed education? But how much has the power of the online network changed education? We know that the web has transformed the way we shop, consume media and socialize.

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Christensen Institute

JUNE 8, 2022

This piece is authored by Becky Klein-Collins, VP of research and impact at the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL) , an organization that’s been a leader in advocating for Credit for Prior Learning (CPL) for nearly 50 years. Click here to learn more about CAEL and its mission. Why shouldn’t that credit count?

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Business and Tech

MARCH 16, 2023

The United States is taking bold steps to reinvigorate its economy through game-changing investments in high-tech research and manufacturing. Simultaneously, the COVID lockdown exposed huge pockets of the United States that do not have access to modern tools nor technology to educate our young. For more than 50 years, U.S.

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Christensen Institute

AUGUST 1, 2022

In our recently published paper titled Leveraging Market-Creating Innovations to Solve Brazil’s Education Paradox , we describe how Brazil currently spends more money on education than its Latin American peers, however much of the outcome of its education system is subpar to theirs in comparison. Thankfully there is hope.

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Christensen Institute

APRIL 27, 2023

If you’re reading this post, there’s a good chance you’re in the business of “organizational change.” But a major body of work happening in K–12 education today boils down to organizational change. Blended learning? Competency-based education? Social-emotional learning? Project-based learning?

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The ability to learn new skills, knowledge, understanding, and values is essential in every area of our lives. While we often think of school as the place of learning, people actually learn throughout their lifetimes both in and outside of the classroom, through trial and error, life experience, and from others.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Education is about more than going to class. In education, flexibility, creativity, and thoughtful application are rewarded. That’s made schools of all levels and the wider education industry that supports them a fruitful ground for crowdsourcing approaches. Columbia University. Georgetown University.

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Christensen Institute

MARCH 14, 2023

It’s about using technology to personalize learning and unlock progress for children who otherwise would struggle to learn to read and do math. Solar panels also help provide lighting in schools, which improves the learning experience for students. They can keep progressing in grade levels, but it doesn’t mean they are learning.

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Christensen Institute

DECEMBER 7, 2023

In July 2023, our team published “ People-powered pathways: Lessons in how to build students’ social capital through career-connected learning.” In the report, we describe successes and challenges in bringing social capital–building strategies to a variety of educational settings. But key staff members are bound to change over time.

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Christensen Institute

MAY 24, 2022

For learning ecosystems to become viable alternatives to schooling for more families, they need “orchestrator” organizations to knit together learning experiences from diverse providers. The pandemic sparked unprecedented interest in new models of learner-centered education, such as learning pods and microschools.

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Christensen Institute

JULY 11, 2023

As I’ve thought about this experience recently, I’ve noticed some interesting parallels with common approaches to improving education. We often attempt small tweaks and modifications in our educational system—upgrading curriculum, training teachers on new instructional strategies—hoping to see major gains in student achievement.

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etventure

MARCH 26, 2020

What do we have to learn today to be prepared for tomorrow? To discuss these questions with some of the most innovative minds in this field, etventure has teamed up with CODE University in Berlin and invited them to the “Future of Education” event at wavespace Berlin. It’s clear that learning is not a one-sided process.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

When looking at radically different thinking and design in business, where Ecosystems become central, you need to ask yourself what industries would benefit from such an alternative design and thinking due to the changing complexities and challenges they are facing. Markets today are radically changing and are more demanding.

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IdeaScale

MAY 16, 2018

I was surprised to read the findings of a recent survey in which researchers found that only 38% of graduates reported that their educational establishment was at the forefront in adopting innovations. That’s one of the key reasons that Entangled Solutions wrote about the rise of the Chief Innovation Officer in the education sector.

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Destination Innovation

JANUARY 24, 2024

It involves deliberately questioning established norms, encouraging unconventional perspectives, and embracing risks to create breakthrough changes. Disruptive thinking can apply across various fields, including technology, art, business, healthcare, education, and social innovation. It is intended to start a revolution.

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Christensen Institute

OCTOBER 26, 2023

In July 2023, our team published “ People-powered pathways: Lessons in how to build students’ social capital through career-connected learning.” In the report, we describe successes and challenges in bringing social capital–building strategies to a variety of educational settings. Other sites focused on long-term outcomes (e.g., “Our

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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Transformation and change initiatives are usually designed as strategic interventions, intending to advance an organisation’s growth, deliver increased shareholder value, build competitive advantage, or improve its speed and agility to respond to fast-changing industries, in a disruptive business environment.

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Christensen Institute

AUGUST 31, 2022

It’s easy to get excited about the virtues of mastery, or competency-based, learning. What’s not to like about a system that guarantees that students learn, as opposed to one that is focused on the amount of time students sit in seats? Were this our current education system, he would have received a grade—perhaps a C.

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