Measuring Innovation in Education

10/7/2009 11:32:30 AM By E.J. Reedy
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) recently held a brainstorming workhop on how innovation conceptually could be measured in education.  From the presentations shown online, I can't tell if there were major conclusions reached, but I found one document interesting for summing up particular possible directions.  I would be very hesitant to implement a Community Innovation Survey-like direction for education because I just have a hard time conceptualizing the theoretical model and questions from that line of work in the education environment.  Education and public services more generally are very different concepts for measuring innovation.  It is good to see the conversation but I have trouble seeing much progress made here unless there is an institutional player driving this conversation which I am not aware of. 


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Michelle - 11/2/2009 8:10:56 AM
A colleague and I are writing a book chapter on information and communications technology applications in U.S. higher education. It seems as if multi-user virtual environments and their variations can drive “curriculum innovation.” The innovation (the new idea put into action) is based on a shift to a more “constructivist” teaching approach. One could perhaps measure how curriculums are adapted with the incorporation of new technologies—something I really doubt has been looked at much anywhere. Surveys that combine qualitative and quantitative methods and case studies are the only ways I have seen to gather information about this unless an institution has a top down approach to curriculum, which seems unlikely in a university setting, but perhaps less so in K-12.

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