Developmental Evaluation is not for you
Developmental evaluation is a powerful tool to support innovation, engaging communities, and foster deep learning. While it might be growing
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Elevating Design & Design Thinking
Design thinking has brought the language of design into popular discourse across different fields, but it’s failings threaten to
Read moreA Beautiful Idea
Is what you do, where you work, or how you organize, beautiful? Among the many words used to describe our
Read moreConfusing change-making with actual change
Change-making is the process of transformation and not to be confused with the transformed outcome that results from such a
Read moreDecoding the change genome
Would we invest in something if we had little hard data to suggest what we could expect to gain from
Read moreThe Ecology of Innovation: Part 2 – Language
Although Innovation is about producing value through doing something new or different than before, the concept is far from simple
Read moreThe urban legends of learning (and other inconvenient truths)
Learning styles, technology-driven teaching, and self-direction are all concepts that anyone interested in education should be familiar with, yet the
Read moreSeeing the lights in research with our heads in the clouds
Some fields stagnate because they fail to take the bold steps into the unknown by taking chances and proposing new
Read moreSocial Innovation Laboratories
Zaid Hassan’s new book The Social Labs Revolution provides a look at the messy world of social change making. While
Read moreThe New Zombie
Information is everywhere (and if you live in cities, people might be everywhere, too) and yet the volume of information we see is overwhelmed by what we do not see. Zombies are among us like information and because of that information might be less attuned to what is going on around them. This has enormous consequences and most of it is not good.
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