Educational Innovation and Technology
A New Look at Scale and Opportunity to Learn
“There still remains room for optimism in technology’s ability to transform education, in part, because of its almost unique role in enhancing all students’ opportunities to learn,” write Carnegie Senior Partner and University of Pittsburgh professor Louis Gomez, Carnegie Visiting Resident Scholar Bernard R. Gifford and Kim Gomez, also of the University of Pittsburgh. The authors prepared the paper, “Educational Innovation and Technology: A New Look at Scale and Opportunity to Learn,” for the Aspen Institute’s Congressional Program Conference, “Transforming America’s Education Through Innovation and Technology.” It is now part of the Carnegie Foundation’s elibrary.
January 5, 2011
In a recent Education Week article, representatives from private and government organizations concerned with education research lined up behind the 90-day cycle model, developed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in Cambridge, Mass., as a way to accomplish “deep-dive, quick turnaround” education research. Carnegie leadership spent a week at…
March 16, 2011
In the past few years, organizations like ours have looked to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) as a model for employing improvement research to support sustainability and scaling efforts in various fields. There are many good reasons for this. IHI, created by Don Berwick and colleagues in the late…