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{"id":314,"date":"2011-06-08T16:16:12","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T16:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncanning.wordpress.com\/?p=314"},"modified":"2011-06-08T16:16:12","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T16:16:12","slug":"what-is-innovation-in-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/?p=314","title":{"rendered":"What is innovation in higher education?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoyed Karen Smith's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informaworld.com\/smpp\/section?content=a937898644&amp;fulltext=713240928\">article <\/a>in <em>Teaching in Higher Education<\/em> exploring innovation in higher education. Smith addresses innovation in a university-wide context as well as the individual context. \u00a0She draws on Kanter's metaphor of innovation being like flowers. Of course some of those flowers turn out to be weeds.<\/p>\n<p>Karen Smith, \u201cCultivating innovative learning and teaching cultures: a question of garden design,\u201d <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informaworld.com\/smpp\/section?content=a937898644&amp;fulltext=713240928\">Teaching in Higher Education<\/a><\/em> 16, no. 4 (2011): 427-348<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"aditya-social\" id=\"aditya-cssanime\">\n<li class=\"aditya-twitter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fjohncanning.net%2Fwp%2F%3Fp%3D314&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fjohncanning.net%2Fwp%2F%3Fp%3D314\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Twitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-add-social-bookmarks\/images\/twitter.png\" alt=\"Twitter\" title=\"Twitter\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"aditya-delicious\"><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/post?url=http%3A%2F%2Fjohncanning.net%2Fwp%2F%3Fp%3D314&amp;title=What+is+innovation+in+higher+education%3F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"del.icio.us\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-add-social-bookmarks\/images\/delicious.png\" alt=\"del.icio.us\" title=\"del.icio.us\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"aditya-digg\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fjohncanning.net%2Fwp%2F%3Fp%3D314&amp;title=What+is+innovation+in+higher+education%3F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Digg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-add-social-bookmarks\/images\/digg.png\" alt=\"Digg\" title=\"Digg\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"aditya-facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fjohncanning.net%2Fwp%2F%3Fp%3D314&amp;t=What+is+innovation+in+higher+education%3F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Facebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-add-social-bookmarks\/images\/facebook.png\" alt=\"Facebook\" title=\"Facebook\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"aditya-technorati\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/faves?add=http%3A%2F%2Fjohncanning.net%2Fwp%2F%3Fp%3D314\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Technorati\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-add-social-bookmarks\/images\/technorati.png\" alt=\"Technorati\" title=\"Technorati\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"aditya-reddit\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reddit.com\/submit?url=What+is+innovation+in+higher+education%3F&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fjohncanning.net%2Fwp%2F%3Fp%3D314\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Reddit\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-add-social-bookmarks\/images\/reddit.png\" alt=\"Reddit\" title=\"Reddit\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"aditya-yahoo\"><a href=\"http:\/\/buzz.yahoo.com\/submit?submitUrl=What+is+innovation+in+higher+education%3F&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fjohncanning.net%2Fwp%2F%3Fp%3D314\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Yahoo Buzz\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-add-social-bookmarks\/images\/yahoo.png\" alt=\"Yahoo Buzz\" title=\"Yahoo Buzz\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"aditya-stumbleupon\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stumbleupon.com\/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fjohncanning.net%2Fwp%2F%3Fp%3D314&amp;title=What+is+innovation+in+higher+education%3F&amp;newcomment=What+is+innovation+in+higher+education%3F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"StumbleUpon\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-add-social-bookmarks\/images\/stumbleupon.png\" alt=\"StumbleUpon\" title=\"StumbleUpon\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoyed Karen Smith's article in Teaching in Higher Education exploring innovation in higher education. Smith addresses innovation in a university-wide context as well as the individual context. \u00a0She draws on Kanter's metaphor of innovation being like flowers. Of course some of those flowers turn out to be weeds. Karen Smith, \u201cCultivating innovative learning and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/?p=314\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is innovation in higher education?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,36,73],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-learning","category-learning","category-teaching","tag-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}