{"id":9366,"date":"2018-07-27T16:43:55","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T20:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=9366"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:50","slug":"digital-innovation-in-higher-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/07\/27\/digital-innovation-in-higher-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"How to foster digital innovation in higher ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8449\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8449\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8449\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/achievement-agreement-arms-1068523-e1527016182950.jpg\" alt=\"five arms fist bumping over table with various devices\" width=\"600\" height=\"392\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8449\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/group-hand-fist-bump-1068523\/\">(rawpixel.com\/pexels.com, CC0)<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>While many universities have established programs to foster digital innovation, getting faculty to try out new technologies can be a challenge. <a href=\"https:\/\/campustechnology.com\/Articles\/2018\/07\/25\/4-Ways-to-Fine-Tune-Academic-Innovation-in-Higher-Ed.aspx?Page=1\">A recent article in &#8220;Campus Technology&#8221;<\/a> highlights the work of U-M&#8217;s Office of Academic Innovation as one of several academic technology leaders that encourage faculty to experiment and engage with emerging technologies and pedagogies. The story cites U-M&#8217;s evolution from it&#8217;s early lab-based approach to it&#8217;s current team-based structure as an example of how to successfully adapt to changing technology needs.<\/p>\n<p>That change in structure was accompanied by a shift from a project-based mindset to more of a long-term focus, explained <strong>James Devaney<\/strong>, associate vice provost for academic innovation.\u00a0&#8220;As the community of faculty innovators grew, we saw opportunities to create different kinds of relationships with faculty,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Whereas the project-based mindset allowed us to work with faculty who had identified a particular problem we could help them solve, this is helping to create affinity groups of faculty members looking at similar areas of learning innovation.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While many universities have established programs to foster digital innovation, getting faculty to try out new technologies can be a challenge. A recent article in &#8220;Campus Technology&#8221; highlights the work of U-M&#8217;s Office of Academic Innovation as one of several academic technology leaders that encourage faculty to experiment and engage with emerging technologies and pedagogies. The story cites\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/07\/27\/digital-innovation-in-higher-ed\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[479,45],"class_list":["post-9366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-academic-innovation","tag-education"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/achievement-agreement-arms-1068523-e1527016182950.jpg",600,392,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/achievement-agreement-arms-1068523-125x82.jpg",125,82,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/achievement-agreement-arms-1068523-300x196.jpg",300,196,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/achievement-agreement-arms-1068523-768x502.jpg",665,435,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/achievement-agreement-arms-1068523-700x458.jpg",600,393,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/achievement-agreement-arms-1068523-e1527016182950.jpg",600,392,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/achievement-agreement-arms-1068523-e1527016182950.jpg",600,392,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/achievement-agreement-arms-1068523-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/achievement-agreement-arms-1068523-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/achievement-agreement-arms-1068523-658x300.jpg",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/achievement-agreement-arms-1068523-665x435.jpg",665,435,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/achievement-agreement-arms-1068523-e1527016182950.jpg",383,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"While many universities have established programs to foster digital innovation, getting faculty to try out new technologies can be a challenge. 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