CERI - Innovation Strategy for Education and Training: Related documents

Technological innovation in education

Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resource (2007)  deals with open and social innovation; E-learning in Tertiary Education: Where Do We Stand? (2005) addresses the challenges of the development and adoption of online learning; E-Learning: The Partnership Challenge (2001) looks at new business models for the development of e-learning.

Pedagogical innovation

Formative Assessment: Improving Learning in Secondary Classrooms (2005)  shows how this innovative assessment method was piloted in different countries and what the benefits and barriers to its adoption are; Teaching, Learning and Assessment for Adults: Improving Foundation Skills (2008) extends the study to innovative pedagogical practices for adults learners.

Educational research

Educational research: New Challenges for Educational Research (2003) reviews educational research in a few OECD countries and points to some ways to enhance its impact.

Evidence in Education: Linking Research and Policy (2007) argues for the use of randomised control trials in educational research, especially when it comes to policy use, and stresses the importance of brokerage agencies for disseminating educational findings. Understanding the brain. Understanding the Brain: The Birth of a Learning Science (2007)
shows how neuroscience is starting to cast light on cognitive processes in a way that can guide education policies.

Innovation and knowledge management in education

Knowledge Management in the Learning Society (2000)  claims that strengthening knowledge management at every level of the education system would make it more innovative and compares the processes of knowledge production, dissemination and use in the engineering, ICT, health and education sectors; Innovation in the knowledge economy.  Knowledge Economy: Implications for Education and Learning (2004)  looks at the sources of innovation (scientific knowledge, users and doers, modular structures, ICT) and assesses the extent to which they are active in the education sector.

Innovation networks

Networks of Innovation: Towards New Models for Managing Schools and Systems (2003)  shows how regional, national and international school networks have led and can lead to innovation and points to the challenges of having innovation becoming a real cultural transformation; Cities and Regions in the New Learning Economy (2001) shows how education is an important component of regional innovation systems.

Internationalisation and innovation

Internationalisation and Trade in Higher Education: Opportunities and Challenges (2004)  and Cross-border Tertiary Education: A Way towards Capacity Development (2007)  show how innovation and quality enhancement can be driven by internationalisation and the cross-border mobility of people, educational programmes and institutions.