Dale Stephens about Disruptive Innovation in Higher Education: hacking your education Amy Holiday in Ashoka U Live Team • February 10, 2012 This is the sixth of a series of posts featuring Exchange participants and their understanding of “Disruptive Innovation in Higher Education”. This week we will be featuring Dale Stephens, Chief Educational Deviant of UnCollege. The landscape of education reform in the United States is turbulent, and there may be no idea more radical than that of 20-year-old […]
How Are You Driving Positive Change at Your University? Beeta Ansari in Uncategorized • September 6, 2011 Ashoka U will be hosting TEDxAshokaU on Feburary 10, 2012 at Arizona State University and we have reserved two TEDxAshokaU “Wildcard” spots for one student and one staff member from a Changemaker Campus. The theme of TEDxAshokaU will be disruptive Innovation in Higher Education and we are eager to hear about the “disruptive innovation” you […]
Finding Value in a Complex System Craig Wing in Changemaker Campus, Guest Bloggers • March 23, 2011 Positive deviance – the theory of replicating best practices was made popular by Jerry Sternin. In every community, organization, or social group, there are individuals with the same resources that somehow manage to with come up with exceptional behaviors or practices leading to better results. Without realizing it, these “Bright Spots” have discovered some measure […]
Exchanging Ideas: Stories of Impact Series Tommy Tobin in Exchange • March 8, 2011 As a community, we came to the Ashoka U Exchange with a challenge: to construct an environment that catalyzes changemaking on college and university campuses. To achieve our goal, the social sector interests of participants would need to be aligned with pathways to pursue innovation at educational institutions around the world. Defining Success The Exchange […]
On Exchanging Tommy Tobin in Exchange • February 24, 2011 The Ashoka U Exchange is upon us! Our Goals With about 300 attendees from 70 colleges and universities coming to Duke University this Saturday, we are ready to immerse ourselves in a weekend of exchanging ideas, stories, and experiences. With conferees hailing from 10 countries and 32 states, we aim to host an Exchange in […]