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For over a decade, the New Media Consortium (NMC) has been charting the landscape of emerging technologies in teaching, learning, and creative inquiry on a global scale. The NMC’s advisory board includes 750 technology experts and faculty members from colleges and universities in 40 countries, and is supported by the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) and the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). The NMC’s latest research efforts were released this spring...

Despite the buzzwords, the world is certainly changing at a very fast pace and the need for businesses to stay ahead of their competition through innovative practice is becoming more apparent.

Scalable has been rather painted into a corner in recent years. It is the way we can scale a business is dangled out in front of us like a carrot, it is implied it is material to success, as with scalability comes profit, as the tantalizing reason to buy into those projects that scale. I wish it was that simple. Does scalability alone mean achieving success?

At Funnybone Toys, everyone shares a love of innovation and design, particularly when it is applied to games and toys. We founded Funnybone Toys in 2011 to create games and other products that would appeal to people in several different and unique distribution channels.

Check out some of our favorite innovation quotes from this past week! Author names will link you to the quoted articles.

We set visions, define idealized future states, define metrics, and create tools and processes to realize them. It’s all knit together, the puzzle pieces fight tightly, and it leaves out the most important part – people and their behavior.

Are our schools preparing pupils to cope with the workplace of tomorrow or are they preparing them to pass exams today? To succeed in a digital world rich in information and innovation, future skilled workers will need the ability to analyse problems, think critically, think creatively, find new solutions and have the courage to take risks and to cope with failure.

Ahmad Ashkar, CEO and Founder of the Hult Prize is an experienced voice in the arena of Crowdsourcing and Competition. Ahkar is a businessman who did more than envision an idea, he implemented it entrepreneurial-style to create a successful crowdsourced competition to tackle complex, global social issues.

Last month Jack Stilgoe, Richard Owen and Phil Macnaghten published an open access article in the Research Policy journal entitled 'Developing a Framework for Responsible Innovation', and I think it raises some interesting points for all of the innovation community.

Martha Chumo is a 19 year old programmer from Kenya who taught herself everything she knew. Chumo has something to teach us not just about having great ideas, but having the passion and the energy to devote towards her goals.