Innovation and radical strategic change are closely related. They both introduce a high degree of uncertainty to an organisation. Recent research has identified that there are particular processes that are more effective at facilitating the management of such activities by enabling the uncertainties to be reduced. There are parallels in other sectors concerning the way innovation and change pro...

The diffusion of innovation (DOI) is critical for any organization and especially nowadays for higher education institutions (HEIs) in the light of vast pressure of emerging educational technologies as well as of the demand of economy and society. DOI takes into account the initial and the implementation phase. The conceptual model of DOI in higher education (HE), where e-learning is considered...

This forum will initiate with a description of the implementation of a constructivist-based reform effort in k-12 classrooms in the US. The reform effort was an online collaboration among four teachers in 4 and 5 grades classrooms to implement a design problem-based unit meant to develop higher-order thinking responses in students. The unit design principles are correlated to current research i...

CS4900 teaches the practices of innovation. Learning these practices is part of the educational requirements for the entire NPS. Because innovating is one of the four central practices of computing professionals, the CS Faculty have included the lab courses 4900 and 4901 in the required curriculum. The story of the World Wide Web, a famous innovation in which computer scientists participated, r...

Here we describe “Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Medicine” (IEMed), a short elective course that exposed medical students to innovation and entrepreneurship. We assess students’ self-rated familiarity with various learning objectives after the course and report survey outcomes. Students were most interested in further educational offerings focused on startups and innovation. However, studen...

the objective of the paper is to design, arrange, and evaluate the causal model of creativity and innovation emphasizing the mediating role of knowledge management: analyzing the relations of organizational culture and social capital with knowledge management and the relations of knowledge management with creativity and innovation in educational offices staff in kurdistan province. all staff of...

In recent years online educational content, efforts at quality appraisal, and integration of online material into institutional teaching initiatives have increased. However, medical education has yet to develop large-scale online learning centers. Crowd-sourced curriculum development may expedite the realization of this potential while providing opportunities for innovation and scholarship. Thi...

This paper contributes to improvement of innovation management. An idea to be developed into an innovation needs a successfully managed whole invention-innovation-diffusion process. Innovation management remains a complex process. Managers with their specialist ́s narrow viewpoint can hardly be holistic enough. The difference in knowledge, educational level and specialization among entrepreneurs...

The Malaysian government has proposed to implement SBA (school-based assessment) in public schools with an attempt to replace the current public examinations. However, as SBA has yet to be in full swing, relatively little is known about the concerns of the teachers who would directly be involved in implementing SBA. This paper presents the findings from a survey on 40 English teachers who are c...