Management of Innovations in Education

The purpose of this course is to provide students with opportunities to prepare themselves to take up a position of an innovator and to initiate innovations that are valid for a specific context. Students are provided with opportunities to apply theories of innovation management, to implement theoretical provisions, to select an innovation valid for a particular educational context and to develop a projects for its implementation.

To create conditions for students to learn to define the need for innovation in education, the conditions for implementation and the preconditions and readiness of personal commitment to innovation.

Basics of management and education

Introduction: education, change, innovation/novelty, and innovator. Definition of innovation. Managerial, socio-cultural, and psychological perspectives on innovation. Socio-cultural role of education and innovations: reproduction or development/advancement. Innovation theories. Types of innovations. Drivers and barriers of innovation. Radical, incremental and disruptive innovations. Product, service and process innovations in education. The states of participation of an educational organisation in the process of change: initiating change and responding to change, motivation for implementing innovation. Need for innovation: objective and subjective perspectives. Innovation in education in the 21st century. Ideas for innovation for a specific educational context. Innovation development methods: stage gate, phase review, PACE. Value creation chain. NABC. Strategies for implementing innovation. Management of innovations. Innovation strategies and plans. Monitoring of innovation projects. Innovation teams, leaders and champions. Innovativeness in the educational organisation. Formation of innovation culture in organisations. Human resource potential for change and its management.

An analysis of the need for innovation was performed in the work of the educational innovation project. Develop a logic matrix for an innovation project using value chain stages (NABC). An analysis of potential challenges and their solutions was performed in the specific context of education. Identification and comparison of different types of innovations. Identification of innovation failures and engines. The work of the educational innovation project raises an innovative idea, substantiates its constructiveness, and provides the level of innovation. In the work of the educational innovation project, the strategy of innovation implementation is chosen and justified, the project implementation plan corresponds to the principles of the chosen strategy. The roles of the innovator in the context of education are defined, which are in line with the proposed strategies for the implementation of innovations. Identify and compare the roles of leaders and champions. The concept of innovation is described, a dictionary of innovation management concepts is created, a map of innovation ideas is created. The work of the educational innovation project evaluates the idea of ??innovation and substantiates its constructiveness. An analysis of the critical evaluation of the innovation project is prepared and presented. Team building, management and support of innovators. Case and experience analysis.