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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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.

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Christensen Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

As members of the media have bemoaned the tragic results of students on the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)—also known as the nation’s report card—many have been all too willing to jump into the game of who is responsible. Click To Tweet.

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Christensen Institute

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

These include access to quality health care, plus predominantly non-medical factors, such as education access and quality, access to and affordability of healthy foods, social connections and support, stable employment and housing, safe neighborhoods, clean air and water, and more.” work together to create better health for children.

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Christensen Institute

NOVEMBER 2, 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. You make it part of the everyday experience.

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Christensen Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Removed from the habit of traditional schooling, increasing numbers of families are opting for alternative forms of education for their children. That’s the conclusion of newly released research by Tyton Partners, an education consultancy. Parents said they were dissatisfied with districts’ lack of personalized learning experiences.

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Christensen Institute

AUGUST 24, 2023

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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Business and Tech

DECEMBER 6, 2021

A recent data report by SCORE , mentors to America’s small businesses found that hiring the right talent is the No. 1 challenge facing small business owners, with nearly two-thirds reporting unfilled job openings within the past six months. To learn more, visit SCORE.org. What do small businesses need right now? Finding support.

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Christensen Institute

DECEMBER 21, 2023

As we wrap up 2023, we’re looking back on a great year’s worth of learning and connecting with many of you. This year, we deepened our work with three national intermediaries working across 20 career-connected learning sites to launch social capital pilots. AI is making networking and social skills more critical.

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Christensen Institute

JANUARY 2, 2024

To state the obvious, 2023 has been a tumultuous year in higher education. And according to a Bain & Company report , two-thirds of institutions must shift their business models to survive and thrive. Online learning will continue to have its moment, but a shakeout is beginning. That’s no longer the case.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

To support you in building out your innovation competencies, capabilities and capacity that requires a deeper investment in skill development in a culture of continual learning. It is a journey of building innovation, fitness and dynamics drawn out in a new way of thinking and design within innovation ecosystems.

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Christensen Institute

APRIL 7, 2022

At the end of each piece, we ask one of our education researchers to weigh in on what Theories of Disruptive Innovation have to say about the innovation. Education has no shortage of challenges. Stay tuned! We aim to have one “Innovation in action” piece each month! This piece is authored by Jess Stokes, Director, WGU Labs.

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Christensen Institute

APRIL 21, 2022

This piece is authored by Chelsea Waite, senior researcher at the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE). Encouraging innovation in schools right now can feel sorely out of touch with educators’ current realities. What does it mean to center marginalized students in school design?

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Christensen Institute

MAY 5, 2022

At the end of each piece, we ask one of our education researchers to weigh in on what Theories of Disruptive Innovation have to say about the innovation. On Monday, April 4th, more than 200 superintendents, education policymakers, futurists, workforce, and university leaders toured 11 Cajon Valley Schools as part of The ASU+GSV Summit.

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Christensen Institute

JANUARY 31, 2023

In April of 2022, the Christensen Institute and Bay View Analytics conducted a final series of surveys on the state of teaching and learning in K-12 schools across the country in the wake of the pandemic. However, as we all learned during the pandemic, a lot can change within a year. Question: Is student participation still low?

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Learn how to get those creative juices flowing with tools such as: Google Docs Visual Thesaurus Coggle and more. Read more about how to design your innovation strategies taking globalization into consideration. It gathers relevant data through educated opinions that can be used to formulate ideas that guide product development.

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Christensen Institute

JULY 30, 2023

Here is my recorded testimony, prepared in text below, on why accreditation needs an innovation overhaul and the need to focus on student learning outcomes instead of institutional inputs. In our current system of higher education, we pay for what we get. Not learning. My name is Michael Horn. Not employment. Not life outcomes.

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Christensen Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 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.

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CMOE

JANUARY 28, 2020

Recent research has highlighted how the Learning and Development (L&D) landscape is chock full of innovative practices. In a similar report from findcourses.co.uk , 42% of respondents reported professional development as their most valued employee perk, and L&D is a key factor in encouraging employee retention.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 31, 2019

This webinar is designed to facilitate better engagement between you and local government. Learn how towns, cities, and counties can use online and mobile channels to start a dialog for improving communities. They work to keep citizens safe, clean the streets, and educate children.

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Innovation in Practice

DECEMBER 9, 2019

In findcourses.com’s 2019 L&D report , conversations with practicing L&D professionals revealed that an innovative training strategy translates to innovative business practices. The report found that companies with growing revenue are 3x more likely to predict an increase in their L&D budget.

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Christensen Institute

DECEMBER 6, 2023

All too often, education research falls short of giving educators on-the-ground actionable advice. Over the last couple of decades, education research has, thankfully, moved to embracing randomized control trial (RCT) when possible. And that is what leads to better understanding. captures the point.

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Christensen Institute

MAY 31, 2022

Education wonks in Washington have once again worked themselves in a tizzy trying to micromanage how colleges and universities serve students. By making the outcomes from all higher education programs far clearer so that students can make more informed decisions about where to enroll that best meets their needs.

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Christensen Institute

JULY 26, 2022

In all the buzz about education in times of COVID, here’s some news you might not have seen: According to our recent survey conducted in partnership with Bay View Analytics, 97% of teachers reported in April 2022 that they were teaching in-person. Flipped Classroom: Make the most of independent and in-class learning.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

The Stages and Gates Process Explained The Stages and Gates process, a cornerstone of innovation management, is a framework designed to guide new products and services from conception to launch. The term may also be applied to any machine that exhibits traits associated with a human mind, such as learning and problem-solving.

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Christensen Institute

MARCH 22, 2022

The last two years have been tough for K–12 schools and educators, but these challenging times have not been without their bright spots—and there’s much to learn from them. The Prepared Project report notes that the schools studied for the project spent years before the pandemic developing their shared visions of 21st century success.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The Feynman Technique is a popular learning strategy that has gained a lot of attention in recent years. The technique is a simple yet powerful method for learning anything, and it can be applied to any subject or skill. How can I apply the Feynman Technique to my own learning? Who invented the Feynman Technique?

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ImagineNation

JUNE 3, 2019

In the same way, new platforms, products and services, business models and other emerging creative surprises are, disrupting the learning game. To also develop the skills required to surmount future challenges, so what then, is the role of continuous learning? New model for education. The world has turned upside down.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2019

As a report, the 2019 Global Innovation Index (GII) is a whopper, at 450 pages, although 50% of this is detailed economic profiles and data tables for each country within the index. This GII report investigates and reports on 129 countries and then analyzes and ranks them accordingly.

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Christensen Institute

MAY 10, 2022

It’s become common knowledge that students who’ve returned to in-person school this year in the wake of the pandemic are not only experiencing potential setbacks in their learning progress, but also severe mental health challenges. Depending on their background, students report vastly different webs of relationships at their disposal.

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Christensen Institute

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

We’ve published most of our thinking in our “ Missing Metrics” report , first released in 2021 and updated with fresh examples and analysis this spring. Counting participation as a proxy for all sorts of outcomes is a familiar trap in education. a student or educator) how a relationship is faring, you’re not getting the full story.

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Christensen Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 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.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Curious : Exhibiting a strong desire to learn and understand more. Encouraging a Mindset of Continuous Learning Continuous learning is the bedrock of innovation. Leaders who prioritize learning are more likely to introduce innovative ideas and solutions.

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Christensen Institute

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

After an unprecedented infusion of federal money in local schools to deal with the devastation and learning loss stemming from COVID, the public is learning that districts and states have billions still waiting to be spent. Many report that they know a fiscal cliff is fast approaching. Those are important.

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Christensen Institute

JUNE 9, 2022

As communication and media technologies carry information around the world in an instant, reported tragedies can float to the back of our awareness as we carry on with our lives. New CDC data released this spring revealed that more than four in 10 teens report feeling “persistently sad or hopeless.”

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Christensen Institute

JANUARY 16, 2024

That’s a missed opportunity: on a long list of career-related skills, networking is where college seniors report feeling least confident, by a wide margin. There is also an emerging market of courses and learning. Universities should consider offering access to more paid work-integrated learning experiences for students.

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Christensen Institute

AUGUST 25, 2022

In a recent Pew Research Center poll , one-third of adolescents reported that they feel less close to their classmates and teachers than they did before COVID. About half of teens reported a sense of social stability, feeling that their various connections across school, family, and friends were “about the same” as pre-pandemic.

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