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The US Congress considers additional funding for research and development work focused on applying technology to improve education. Two main goals would be to fund digitisation of content and to act as a clearinghouse for R&D into advanced technology applications for training and learning

Over 350 innovative projects in Australia have been funded through the ASISTM initiative

transforming the way people learn through innovative technology and practice

The Futurlab site contains sections about projects: - the innovate award scheme; - the Models of Innovation project investigating conditions and strategies to support innovation in the design and development of digital learning resources; - teachers as innovators in teaching and learning with digital resources; - Why don't you? .. a porject about providing tested new tools and approaches that could be used to try something in a new way ... and available resources (reports; handbooks; articles,...)

Where the resistance lise!

It's hilarious when you think about it: technology is touted as being one of the key drivers of change, but those people sitting on power over how we use IT in companies and administrations are some of the least capable of embracing change.

The reactions give even more insight. Trying out innovative new tools is by the respondents regarded as sth that is not key to business processes. You should only be allowed to use tools that are tested. Understandable from some perspectives, but couldn't IT departments become a little more open in supporting and working together with advanced users?

Collective intelligence is the capacity of human communities to evolve towards higher order complexity and harmony, through such innovation mechanisms as differentiation and integration, competition and collaboration.

A talk by a specialist in teacher training about the impact of Web 2.0 on education. For those already interested in change in education thanks to ICT, this may bring little new. When are people going to go beyond statements about how things are radically changing to what we are going to do about it?

The UK Innovation Unit promotes innovation to improve education and children's services. It acts as a catalyst for change and draws on expertise from both the public and private sectors, combining practitioner expertise with the ambition of policy makers.

A series of papers about innovation, parrticularly patents but also on open source process and intellectual property.