Facilitating innovation with technology: Key actors in educational ecosystems

Educational Ecosystems: A Trend in Urban Educational Innovation

There is an increasing reliance on market principles and values in the education space, particularly in urban contexts, accompanied by a growing diversification of educational service providers. Due in part to increased interactivity amongst constituents in this growing assembly of providers and actors, educational innovation ecosystem arrangements have emerged across urban centers. In this art...

Educational Technology as a Key to Educational Innovation - State of the Art Report from Germany

In this article we present an overview of educational technology initiatives in Germany on the school and university level. After a general introduction to the German education system exemplary projects are outlined to show how Germany seeks to integrate computers and the Internet into its educational system. In 1995, more computers than cars have been sold in Germany for the first time in hist...

Improving the Quality of Inclusive Education by Facilitating Learning from Experiences among Educational Actors

Dissidents with an innovation cause? Non-institutionalized actors' online social knowledge sharing, solution-finding tensions and technology management innovation

Essence: facilitating software innovation

Received: 13 August 2008 Accepted: 13 September 2008 Abstract This paper suggests ways to facilitate creativity and innovation in software development. The paper applies four perspectives – Product, Project, Process, and People – to identify an outlook for software innovation. The paper then describes a new facility – Software Innovation Research Lab (SIRL) – and a new method concept for softwa...