This article promotes the idea of innovation networks in education. Why innovation networks? "Teachers do it anyway," note the authors, and "most innovation is the activity of networked teams, not individuals." The latter part of the report outlines five conditions required to foster innovation networks: a climate fostering motivation, opportunity, skills and means to innovate; a means of protecting against innovation overload and focus on good practice; a mechanism to transfer innovation laterally through a peer to peer process; the use of information and communications technology (ICT) to create a communications network; and the fostering of an open source culture that encourages sharing and collaborative innovation. This is to a large degree what I advocate and try to foster here. More information. Via Seb Schmoller.
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