- Platform
- edX
- Provider
- University of Michigan
- Effort
- 2-4 hours a week
- Length
- 8 weeks
- Language
- English
- Credentials
- Paid Certificate Available
- Part of
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MicroMasters Program: Leading Educational Innovation and Improvement
- Course Link
Overview
Pursuing goals for ambitious teaching and learning requires that students, teachers, and educational leaders learn to work together in new ways. This course engages learners in exploring four leading logics of educational innovation: strategies and approaches to producing and using knowledge to improve educational practice and outcomes at scale, across many classrooms, schools, and systems. These logics include:
To understand both their potential and their pitfalls, learners will apply these logics in analyzing exemplary cases of large-scale, practice-focused educational innovation in the US and abroad.
With deeper understandings of these logics, learners will be able to be strategic in designing and managing local innovation. They will also be able to identify external programs and projects that can serve as effective partners in innovation and improvement.
This course is part of the Leading Educational Innovation and Improvement MicroMasters Program offered by MichiganX.
What you'll learn
Taught by
Donald J. Peurach
Pursuing goals for ambitious teaching and learning requires that students, teachers, and educational leaders learn to work together in new ways. This course engages learners in exploring four leading logics of educational innovation: strategies and approaches to producing and using knowledge to improve educational practice and outcomes at scale, across many classrooms, schools, and systems. These logics include:
- Shell enterprises
- Diffusion enterprises
- Incubation enterprises
- Evolutionary enterprises
To understand both their potential and their pitfalls, learners will apply these logics in analyzing exemplary cases of large-scale, practice-focused educational innovation in the US and abroad.
With deeper understandings of these logics, learners will be able to be strategic in designing and managing local innovation. They will also be able to identify external programs and projects that can serve as effective partners in innovation and improvement.
This course is part of the Leading Educational Innovation and Improvement MicroMasters Program offered by MichiganX.
What you'll learn
- To think and reason about innovation as producing, using, and refining practical knowledge in schools and systems.
- To evaluate the alignment between innovation strategies and local contexts.
- To coordinate innovation strategies with goals for ambitious teaching and learning.
Syllabus
Part 1: Review of Leading Logics of Educational Innovation
Relationships among Educational Policy, Research, and Practice
Part 2: Analyzing Cases of Large-Scale, Practice-Focused Educational Innovation
Note: Case studies will include Success for All, which operates in the US and abroad; Reading Recovery, which was initially developed in New Zealand and has since established a large presence in the US and around the world; and England’s National College for Teaching and School Leadership.
Part 1: Review of Leading Logics of Educational Innovation
Relationships among Educational Policy, Research, and Practice
Part 2: Analyzing Cases of Large-Scale, Practice-Focused Educational Innovation
Note: Case studies will include Success for All, which operates in the US and abroad; Reading Recovery, which was initially developed in New Zealand and has since established a large presence in the US and around the world; and England’s National College for Teaching and School Leadership.
Taught by
Donald J. Peurach