Denise Borders & Jim Kohlmoos - Presentation Slide Link
Last year at the Knowledge and Innovation Summit West Wind Ed Policy, the Stupski Foundation, and the Knowledge Alliance unveiled a vision for research, design, and development in education. Denise Borders of AED and Jim Kohlmoos of Knowledge Alliance kicked off Day 2 of this year's retreat by quickly reviewing the vision introduced last year as a frame of reference to inform and invigorate the day's discussions. Here are the basic assumptions and elements of this new vision for research, design, and development to transform education for the future.
Assumptions:
- Innovation is the lifeblood of continuous improvement in any organization.
- A robust R&D system can accelerate education improvement in significant, scalable and sustainable ways.
- The R&D system must itself be reinvented as a catalyst for innovation and continuous improvement.
Elements:
- A central mission that focuses on solving problems of practice.
- A knowledge ecosystem that constantly captures, generates and disseminates new knowledge.
- Dynamic networks that guide, aggregate and accelerate innovation and improvement.
- A design process that promotes rapid responses, rigorous testing, and scaling.
- Innovation centers and their interdisciplinary design teams that manage and implement the development process.
- Participating research sites that provide workable environments for the three phases of the development process.
- Funding that is ongoing, sustainable and sufficient.
Jim Kohlmoos concluded this session with the observation that we (Knowledge Alliance) have identified the basic features for an R&D system including: a problem solving mission; a knowledge ecosystem; design process; networks of innovation; centers and teams; and funding. Today, he said, "let's hang out in the stratosphere, test the big ideas, and surprise each other as we imagine a new future."
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