Scaling Educational Innovations

Author : Chee-Kit Looi,Laik Woon Teh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789812875372

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Scaling Educational Innovations by Chee-Kit Looi,Laik Woon Teh Pdf

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.

Author : Chris Dede,James P. Honan,Laurence C. Peters
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781119177883

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Scaling Up Success by Chris Dede,James P. Honan,Laurence C. Peters Pdf

Drawing from the information presented at conference sponsored by the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Technology in Education Consortium, leading educators, researchers, and policymakers, Scaling Up Success translate, theory into practice and provide, a hands-on resource that clearly describes different models for “scaling up” success. This important resource is filled with illustrative examples of best practices that are grounded in real-life case studies of technology-based educational innovation3⁄4from networking a failing school district in New Jersey to using computer visualization to teach scientific inquiry in Chicago. Scaling Up Success show how the lessons learned from technology-based educational innovation can be applied to other school improvement efforts.

Author : Robert McLean,John Gargani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429886386

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Scaling Impact by Robert McLean,John Gargani Pdf

Scaling Impact introduces a new and practical approach to scaling the positive impacts of research and innovation. Inspired by leading scientific and entrepreneurial innovators from across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Middle East, this book presents a synthesis of unrivalled diversity and grounded ingenuity. The result is a different perspective on how to achieve impact that matters, and an important challenge to the predominant more-is-better paradigm of scaling. For organisations and individuals working to change the world for the better, scaling impact is a common goal and a well-founded aim. The world is changing rapidly, and seemingly intractable problems like environmental degradation or accelerating inequality press us to do better for each other and our environment as a global community. Challenges like these appear to demand a significant scale of action, and here the authors argue that a more creative and critical approach to scaling is both possible and essential. To encourage uptake and co-development, the authors present actionable principles that can help organisations and innovators design, manage, and evaluate scaling strategies. Scaling Impact is essential reading for development and innovation practitioners and professionals, but also for researchers, students, evaluators, and policymakers with a desire to spark meaningful change.

Author : Christian Seelos,Johanna Mair
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781503600997

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Innovation and Scaling for Impact by Christian Seelos,Johanna Mair Pdf

Innovation and Scaling for Impact forces us to reassess how social sector organizations create value. Drawing on a decade of research, Christian Seelos and Johanna Mair transcend widely held misconceptions, getting to the core of what a sound impact strategy entails in the nonprofit world. They reveal an overlooked nexus between investments that might not pan out (innovation) and expansion based on existing strengths (scaling). In the process, it becomes clear that managing this tension is a difficult balancing act that fundamentally defines an organization and its impact. The authors examine innovation pathologies that can derail organizations by thwarting their efforts to juggle these imperatives. Then, through four rich case studies, they detail innovation archetypes that effectively sidestep these pathologies and blend innovation with scaling. Readers will come away with conceptual models to drive progress in the social sector and tools for defining the future of their organizations.

Author : Elizabeth Ruilin Koh,David Wei Loong Hung
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811644696

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Scaling up ICT-based Innovations in Schools by Elizabeth Ruilin Koh,David Wei Loong Hung Pdf

This collected book is about the eduLab projects, an initiative with focus on Scaling Change through Apprenticising and Ecological Leadership, designed to surface and spread ground-up information and communication technology-based pedagogical innovations. It presents the goals and rationale behind eduLab, an overview of the research projects conducted by its principal investigators during its funding tenure, as well as synthesizing thoughts on the entire endeavor. This book not only marks the achievements of the eduLab programme but also serves as inspiration for future projects. It presents Singapore education in action – a continually evolving and adapting education system that delivers a system well known for its high quality as much as it is forward-looking.

Author : Anat Zohar
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783031159671

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Scaling-up Higher Order Thinking by Anat Zohar Pdf

This open access book addresses the evasive problem of why truly effective educational innovation on a wide scale is so difficult to achieve, and what leaders may do about this. Examining the case of system-wide reform processes centering on teaching a thinking-rich curriculum, it discusses general issues pertaining to implementing deep, large-scale changes in the core of learning and instruction. The book emphasizes challenges related to professional development, assessment, achievement gaps, and the tension between knowledge and skills in 21st century curricula. It summarizes insights the author has gained from approximately 25 years of engaging with these topics both as an academic and as a practitioner who led a national change process. With a Forward by David Perkins

Author : David Hung,Shu-Shing Lee,Yancy Toh,Azilawati Jamaludin,Longkai Wu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811363306

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Innovations in Educational Change by David Hung,Shu-Shing Lee,Yancy Toh,Azilawati Jamaludin,Longkai Wu Pdf

This book offers an ecological perspective to understand the opportunities and complexities of spreading and sustaining educational innovations. It explores the imperatives underpinning educational reforms and identifies the role of schools in developing, disseminating, and sustaining changes in Singapore’s educational context. It also includes international case studies that examine the dialectical relationships between structure, people and culture and demonstrate that cultivating ecologies involves leveraging affordances and resources across the education system to create new contexts, synergies and capacities. Further, it argues that educational innovations and reforms also need to consider tacit knowledge and conditions of transfer, which may be ambiguous and challenging. Few books address the nuances and interactions of innovation and change across levels of the education ecology – from the micro (classroom), meso (organisation / school), exo (partners), macro (policy) and chrono (time scales) levels. The ecological perspective adopted in this book explores the dynamic tensions in order to understand the interplays of policy and school-level influences that contextualize school innovations. By presenting multiple voices and views, it allows impediments and affordances of innovation diffusion to be discussed holistically, which is an integral caveat for nurturing a sustainable ecology that enables innovations.

Author : Barbara L. Schneider,Sarah-Kathryn McDonald
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 0742547310

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Scale-up in Education: Ideas in principle by Barbara L. Schneider,Sarah-Kathryn McDonald Pdf

Scale-Up in Education, Volume 1: Ideas in Principle examines the challenges of 'scaling up' from a multidisciplinary perspective. It brings together contributions from disciplines that routinely take promising innovations to scale, including medicine, business, engineering, computing, and education. Together the contributors explore appropriate methods for estimating the effects of innovations in larger, more diverse settings and provide theories and models to guide the design of innovations most likely to remain viable at large scales. Specially-commissioned commentaries also discuss the analytical requirements and theoretical possibilities of a program of educational research on scale-up built upon these foundations. This volume is ideally suited for researchers, policymakers, and graduate students charged with determining the effectiveness of educational interventions. With its insights into the conceptual and methodological prerequisites for obtaining rigorous, actionable evidence of intervention effects, the volume provides reading for program evaluation courses in schools of education and public policy.

Author : Rebecca Ferguson,Ann Jones,Eileen Scanlon
Publisher : Ubiquity Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781911529804

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Educational visions by Rebecca Ferguson,Ann Jones,Eileen Scanlon Pdf

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.

Author : Ann Mei Chang
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119506607

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Lean Impact by Ann Mei Chang Pdf

Despite enormous investments of time and money, are we making a dent on the social and environmental challenges of our time? What if we could exponentially increase our impact? Around the world, a new generation is looking beyond greater profits, for meaningful purpose. But, unlike business, few social interventions have achieved significant impact at scale. Inspired by the modern innovation practices, popularized by bestseller The Lean Startup, that have fueled technology breakthroughs touching every aspect of our lives, Lean Impact turns our attention to a new goal - radically greater social good. Social change is far more complicated than building a new app. It requires more listening, more care, and more stakeholders. To make a lasting difference, solutions must be embraced by beneficiaries, address root causes, and include an engine that can accelerate growth to reach the scale of the need. Lean Impact offers bold ideas to reach audacious goals through customer insight, rapid experimentation and iteration, and a relentless pursuit of impact. Ann Mei Chang brings a unique perspective from across sectors, from her years as a tech executive in Silicon Valley to her most recent experience as the Chief Innovation Officer at USAID. She vividly illustrates the book with real stories from interviews with over 200 organizations across the US and around the world. Whether you are a nonprofit, social enterprise, triple bottom line company, foundation, government agency, philanthropist, impact investor, or simply donate your time and money, Lean Impact is an essential guide to maximizing social impact and scale.

Author : Nancy Law,Allan Yuen,Robert Fox
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780387711485

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Educational Innovations Beyond Technology by Nancy Law,Allan Yuen,Robert Fox Pdf

The text explores the concept of innovation, and analyse and compare different dimensions of innovation found in the various case studies; the transfer of innovation and the mechanisms of change; on an innovative online case study database on education innovations that has been designed to be used by education practitioners to support organizational leadership, international collaboration and reflective practice in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) eEducation Leadership initiative; on a project aimed to support the establishment of communities of practice for education practitioners facilitated through an extendable online database that can be used to contribute and share case studies of their own ICT-supported pedagogical innovations. It discusses roles of the teacher and the anticipated changes to the education profession at a system level, in the coming decade on the basis of emerging changes observed in the case studies, and leadership issues at the school level. The book analyses change mechanisms for different kinds of innovation and how different contextual and cultural factors interact to bring about the changes observed.

Author : Bryan C. Hassel,Lucy Steiner,Innovations in American Government Program,Taubman Center for State and Local Government
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Educational acceleration
ISBN : OCLC:50407158

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Strategies for Scale by Bryan C. Hassel,Lucy Steiner,Innovations in American Government Program,Taubman Center for State and Local Government Pdf

Author : Barbara L. Schneider,Sarah-Kathryn McDonald
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 0742546616

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Scale-up in Education: Issues in practice by Barbara L. Schneider,Sarah-Kathryn McDonald Pdf

Scale-Up in Education, Volume 2: Issues in Practice explores the challenges of implementing and assessing educational interventions in varied classroom contexts. Included are reflections on the challenges of designing studies for improving the instructional core of schools, guidelines for establishing evidence of interventions' impacts across a wide range of settings, and an assessment of national efforts to bring reform to scale in high-poverty schools. This volume also includes findings and insights from several federally funded research projects charged with bringing conceptual and analytic rigor to studies of successful scale-up. All of the chapters address the challenges of conducting scientific research in schools and provide insights for obtaining the support of teachers and school administrators. The result is a highly readable volume ideally suited for educators interested in the issues that inform intervention research, researchers concerned with designing practical studies that are methodologically sound, and policymakers engaged in evidence-based school reform.

Author : Barbara Schneider,Sarah-Kathryn McDonald
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-12-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781461643234

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Scale-Up in Education by Barbara Schneider,Sarah-Kathryn McDonald Pdf

Scale-Up in Education, Volume 1: Ideas in Principle examines the challenges of 'scaling up' from a multidisciplinary perspective. It brings together contributions from disciplines that routinely take promising innovations to scale, including medicine, business, engineering, computing, and education. Together the contributors explore appropriate methods for estimating the effects of innovations in larger, more diverse settings and provide theories and models to guide the design of innovations most likely to remain viable at large scales.

Author : Ian R. Haslam,Myint Swe Khine,Issa M. Saleh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136195945

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Large Scale School Reform and Social Capital Building by Ian R. Haslam,Myint Swe Khine,Issa M. Saleh Pdf

This book introduces and explores the nature of large scale reform, and offers a fresh insight into the importance of social capital and professional development leadership for teachers and school management. It synthesizes research on the role of the professional development leader and the importance of social capital in schools, and examines its potential to impact large scale, system-wide, reform projects. The text presents a range of international examples and theories from renowned researchers and educationists, which illustrate the challenge of raising the prominence of education social capital in schools. Considering crucial research that informs effective adult learning interventions, underlying themes supporting constructivist and transformative interventions are identified and woven into the narrative. Factors and variables needed to encourage and implement initiatives are examined, and each section is accompanied by case studies from around the world. The book is split into five sections and twelve parts which include: -The Lesson of Large Scale Reform for Leadership Development -Assessment of Wide Scale Educational Reform Initiatives -Developing Social Capital through National Education Reform -System Improvement through Professional Learning Communities Large Scale School Reform and Social Capital Building will be of interest to policy makers and system reform leaders, along with researchers and postgraduate students with a focus on continuous professional development, educational reform and school leadership.