Teaching Systems Lab MOOCs In Review: 2017-2019

The mission of the Teaching Systems Lab is to design, implement and research the future of teacher learning. Between 2017 and 2019, the lab released four MOOCs on change leadership, including Launching Innovation in Schools, Design Thinking for Leading and Learning, Envisioning the Graduate of the Future, and Competency-Based Education: The What, Why and How. This submission is a compendium of review papers describing findings from six instantiations of these four courses.

The JMC Innovation Project: A Pivotal Moment for Journalism, Media and Communication Education: Assessing the State of Innovation

The JMC Innovation Project recently released its first report, “The New JMC: Creating Cultures of Innovation in Schools of Journalism, Media and Communication,” which assessed the scope and status of innovation in schools and colleges of journalism, media and communication (JMC), based on personal interviews with 70 deans and directors from public and private universities across the country. A synopsis of the report was published in MediaShift. Here, we highlight key findings and offer our observations and takeaways from the interviews on the state of innovation in JMC schools and colleges. We encourage readers to visit the JMC Innovation Project website ( jmcinnovationproject.com ), which reports on how JMC deans and directors view and approach innovation—in their own words.