Creating Innovators

Creating Innovators
Author: Tony Wagner
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2012-04-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1451611498

Reveals the importance of innovation in American global competitiveness, profiling some of today's most compelling young innovators while explaining how they have succeeded through the unconventional methods of parents, teachers, and mentors.

Learner-Centered Innovation

Learner-Centered Innovation
Author: Katie Martin
Publisher: Impress, LP
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2018-02-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781948334150

When we tell kids to complete an assignment, we get compliance. When we empower learners to explore and learn how to make an impact on the world, we inspire problem solvers and innovators.

Educational Research and Innovation Measuring Innovation in Education 2019 What Has Changed in the Classroom?

Educational Research and Innovation Measuring Innovation in Education 2019 What Has Changed in the Classroom?
Author: Vincent-Lancrin Stéphan
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2019-03-05
Genre:
ISBN: 926431167X

Measuring innovation in education and understanding how it works is essential to improve the quality of the education sector. Monitoring systematically how pedagogical practices evolve would considerably increase the international education knowledge base. We need to examine whether, and how ...

Learning Innovation and the Future of Higher Education

Learning Innovation and the Future of Higher Education
Author: Joshua Kim
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2020-02-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1421436639

Ultimately, the authors make a compelling case not only for this turn to learning but for creating new pathways for nonfaculty learning careers, understanding the limits of professional organizations and social media, and the need to establish this new interdisciplinary field of learning innovation.

Educational visions

Educational visions
Author: Rebecca Ferguson
Publisher: Ubiquity Press
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2019-12-18
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1911529803

What have been the biggest successes in educational technology – and why have they succeeded when others have failed? Educational Visions shows how innovations including citizen science, learning at scale, inclusive education, learning design and analytics have developed over decades. The book is shaped by the visions pursued by one research group for the past 40 years. It outlines the group’s framework for innovation and shows how this can be put into practice to achieve long-term results that benefit both students and teachers at every educational level.

Innovation in Education

Innovation in Education
Author: Charles Leadbeater
Publisher:
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2012
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9789992194416

Innovation in Education explores the work of 16 pioneers around the world who have developed new, effective approaches to education that work at scale. These pioneers are almost all drawn from applicants for awards from the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE). By tracing the story of how these pioneering innovations came about, developed, spread and grew to scale, the book aims to raise awareness of why innovation in education is needed, where it comes from and how it can be generated.

Creating Great Schools

Creating Great Schools
Author: Phillip C. Schlechty
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2005-02-21
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Helping educational leaders sustain continuous innovation and improvement in schools, this text presents a framework for understanding the norms, behaviours and structures that make school systems so intractable to change.

Innovation in Professional Education

Innovation in Professional Education
Author: Richard E. Boyatzis
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1995
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

"The book provides specific designs, methods, and procedures for conducting outcome assessment studies, including five types particularly relevant to professional schools: alumni studies, employer studies, faculty studies, student-change studies, and professional competency studies"--Book jacket.

Scaling Educational Innovations

Scaling Educational Innovations
Author: Chee-Kit Looi
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2015-07-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9812875379

This volume stimulates critical discussions of the different variants of implementation, translation and scaling research approaches. It presents an integrated collection of different implementation and scaling studies that analyse the different facets of co-design, learning design, curriculum development, technology development, professional development and programme implementation. It also provides critical reflections on their impact and efficacies on transforming practices, informing policy-making, and theory derivation and improvement. The chapters in this volume will provide readers a deeper understanding of scaling of educational innovations in diverse socio-cultural contexts.

10 Perspectives on Innovation in Education

10 Perspectives on Innovation in Education
Author: Jimmy Casas
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2018-12-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 042994196X

How do great educators bring about real change to make a difference in students’ lives? In this first volume of the Routledge Great Educators Series, 10 of education’s most inspiring thought-leaders come together to share their top suggestions you need right now to innovate in your school or classroom. You will gain fresh insights and practical strategies on these essential topics: Personalizing professional learning (Jeffrey Zoul) Promoting a positive school culture (Todd Whitaker) Improving our hiring practices (Jimmy Casas) Designing spaces that maximize learning (Thomas C. Murray) Empowering students in their learning and assessments (Starr Sackstein) Flipping the classroom to reach each student (Kirk Humphreys) Positioning libraries as learning hubs (Shannon McClintock Miller) Helping others embrace technology changes (Katrina Keene) Developing personal, not just professional, skills (Dwight Carter) Embracing each student's passions and strengths (LaVonna Roth) Filled with inspiring stories throughout, the book will leave you feeling motivated to take risks and try new things in your own school or classroom. As the authors say, if we want to make a real difference, it’s not enough to do the things we do better; we must also do new and better things!