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IT Planning: Cultivating Innovation and Value
by Anne K. Keehn and Donald M. Norris
Syllabus November 2003
American universities are "innovation challenged" as enterprises. We encourage innovation with a small "i" - individual research, pilot projects, functional improvements, and new, experimental practices. But we often treat these innovations as "add ons" or "one offs" that operate in a parallel universe to existing core practices. In truth, colleges and universities have been ineffectual in innovation with a capital "I" - spreading the DNA from successful, proven innovations across the institution and changing core practices in response to new insights on best practices. Systemic, institution-wide innovation is our short suit, at the very time that such innovation is being shown to be essential to competitive relevance in the Knowledge Economy [8]. In order to thrive, colleges and universities must overcome this deficit and leverage collaboration, innovation, and creativity.
http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=8454
See also:
http://www.transformingknowledge.info/

A Revolution in Knowledge Sharing
by Donald M. Morris, Jon Mason, Robby Robson, Paul Lefrere, and Geoff Collier
EDUCAUSE Review September/October 2003
The pressure to transform our institutions of learning continues. Virtually every enterprise and institution is grappling with the disruptions and opportunities caused by Web-enabled infrastructures and practices. New best practices, business models, innovations, and strategies are emerging, including new ways to acquire, assimilate, and share knowledge. Using technologies that are already developed or that will be deployed over the next five years, best practices in knowledge sharing not only are diffusing rapidly but will be substantially reinvented in all settings: educational institutions, corporations, government organizations, associations, and nonprofits. But institutions of learning are in a unique position to benefit from an added opportunity: providing leadership in e-knowledge.
http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm03/erm035.asp

Faculty Development: The Hammer in Search of a Nail
by Anne Scrivener Agee, Dee Ann Holisky and Star A. Muir
The Technology Source September/October 2003
There is no doubt that faculty development can be a powerful tool for change. The question is, to what end is that tool being used? Many institutions have adopted a scattershot approach that awards money and other resources to early adopters to pursue their personal technology interests. Even programs that have evolved beyond this approach often do not tie faculty development to anything more than general improvement in the use of technology at the institution, or a simple increase in the number of faculty members who use technology in instruction. Given the many demands on institutional resources, it is critical to associate faculty development in technology with the institution's strategic goals for the use of technology.
http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1067

Blended Learning Exemplars
From New South Wales Department of Education and Training (Australia)
Blended Learning is learning which combines online and face-to-face approaches. The following material resulted from an ANTA-funded project which set out to investigate blended learning through a series of interviews with teachers.
http://www.det.nsw.edu.au/blended