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05Aug
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How-To: Developing accessible and transparent communications strategies

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While our natural posture is to stick to the things we are used to using, polarization, gridlock, hyper-connectivity, fragmentation, movements, platforms, and exponential technologies suggest “new power[1]” communication strategies are needed to propel new templates for strategic communications. Templates that embody networked and collaborative leadership, including “leaderful” and ownerless engagement models; that cultivate cultures of […]
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15Dec
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Transforming the student experience through career education and exploration

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Over the past 8 months, Kinetic Seeds has been working with Jeffrey Selingo, author, Professor of Practice/Special Adviser, Arizona State University, and Visiting Scholar, Georgia Tech’s Center for 21st Century Universities conducting a 4-city journey to discover how to create better pathways from education to the workforce. Traveling to Denver, Atlanta, Philadelphia, and Indianapolis, we […]
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01Nov
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Announcing New Initiative: What Might an Aligned K-16 CBE System Look Like?

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In a rather serendipitous moment, the Illinois state legislature recently passed legislation to create an aligned P-20 system that will support competency-based education (CBE). This idea of an aligned system is well-timed for a new project Kinetic Seeds is tackling to conceptualize what it means to create a seamless CBE education system. CBE is an emerging academic […]
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26Apr
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Toolkit Tuesday: Ecosystem Mapping

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We’re suckers for a good ecosystem map. They are a wonderful tool that allows us to understand people’s experiences in the context of wider institutional and community systems. This ecosystem map – which we created following a facilitated activity with a group of higher education innovators – reflects one holistic view of a higher education ecosystem. The simple circular […]
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03Feb
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Performance Metrics, Performance Funding. What’s a state to do?

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Outcomes-based funding (OBF) policies can be a powerful tool for supporting increased postsecondary student attainment. Research suggests this form of financial incentive can be a catalyst for institutions to help students successfully complete degree programs. To date, 32 states have a funding formula in place that allocates some amount of funding based on performance indicators such […]
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25Jan
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Toolkit Tuesday: Innovation in higher education is like…

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One of our favorite exercises to use in model design workshops is to ask participants to frame a given context as a metaphor. It’s a surprisingly simple and effective activity because the humble metaphor can be a powerful catalyst for generating new thinking or reveal commonly accepted conventions and beliefs. It can quickly create a […]
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04Oct
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From the bookshelf: Profiles in higher ed transformation

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A few moons back I had the privilege of being interviewed by Susan Aldridge (president of Drexel University Online and former president of the University of Maryland) and Kathleen Harvatt about business model innovation. The duo had been commissioned by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities to write a book that offers practical […]
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30Sep
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One Big Idea for Scaling and Sustaining Personalized Adult Learning

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I’m going on a rant for a couple of paragraphs. Bear with me. For all the talk about student-centricity, personalization and adult learning, the customer service experience for people trying to re-enter higher education and persist through to degree completion just plain stinks. In this day and age, given the plethora of information and case studies […]
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29Sep
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From the bookshelf: Connected Company

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I’m ashamed to admit I’ve had this book on my shelf for a couple of years now. I even spent time with its author – Dave Gray – when he spoke at my former stomping ground’s annual innovation summit. But it wasn’t until I was beating my head against a wall for a gnarly challenge […]
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12Dec
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Kinetic Seeds Selected as a Winner of Lumina Foundation Innovation Challenge

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With a good deal of pride and a high-level hope that we might catalyze something big, we’re happy to announce that our entry for winning ideas to scale and sustain adult learning has been selected by College Unbound and the Lumina Foundation. It’s not a small challenge to tackle. Nearly 75% of today’s college students […]
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