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"Make #innovation in teaching & learning a strategic goal of the organization" @DrTonyBates adds to @JoshMKim's 5 ideas http://t.co/wXwYHl6C

Can Yammer become the "smartest person on campus"? The experiments in #3 are  our innovation pilots.

Innovation as an activity. Explore, experiment, exploit.

This resource is intended to distil lessons learned from various JISC innovation programmes into a "Good Practice Guide for Sustaining and Embedding Innovations". It is intended to support project steering groups and management teams in further and higher education in decision-making in this area and focuses on: Changing people and culture.Working with existing institutional structures to influence organisational change.Embedding or aligning with strategies, processes, systems, initiatives and services.Creating usable tools and resources (as part of project outputs) to meet stakeholder needs.Developing commercial and open approaches to sustaining and embedding innovation.

First of 2 blog posts on plagiarism vs iterative innovation in the gaming industry. Has some good discussion on the ethics and principles of re-using others work and the implications for creativity and innovation. Other post at http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/AndySchatz/20110815/8198/Fishing_the_iOS_Clone_market_and_PatentCopyright.php

Tony Bates on an innovation article published in Inside Higher Education.

Good article from Howard Jarche pulling together threads on how innovation happens and why we need to learn to work in networks.

Hype Cycle tracks innovations through stages - technology trigger, peak of inflated expectations, trough of disillusionment, slope of enlightenment, plateau of productivity. Can't see MOOCs any where on this graph! 

Report from UK on innovating in the TEL space.

Disruptive Innovation - an example from US HE of changing hthe way people access universities and undertake degrees.

Case studies of innovation in elearning (actually there's more here if you use the search)

"This emerging disruptive innovation-online education-also presents an opportunity to rethink many of the age-old assumptions about higher education."

Educational transformation / innovation group

Thoughtful article by George on the future of education and the role of business, entrepreneurs and innovation.

This controversial anti-piracy legislation is all about studios and other corporations making excuses for their technological backwardness and looking out for their short-term profit

We envision communications infrastructure that is owned and operated cooperatively, by the whole of humanity, rather than by corporations and states.We are using the power of peer-to-peer technologies to create a global network which is immune to censorship and resistant to breakdown.We promote freedoms, support innovations and advocate technologies that enhance and enable digital self-determination.

Innovating Pedagogy 2012. First report of an OU working group looking at exploring new forms of teaching, learning and assessment, to guide educators and policy makers

Feldstein on why open source and agile development will allow new technology to come on stream really quickly.

UoQ's new Centre for educational innovation and technology.