Invent Ed: How an American Tradition of Innovation Can Transform College Today [9780262552516]

Overview

An essential guidebook on innovation in higher education—and how we can ensure student success in college by looking to the history of American invention.

Invent Ed is a much-needed contribution to the broad ecosystem of innovation, creativity, and higher education in America. Our country’s many generations of inventors, from Benjamin Franklin to modern visionaries like Steve Jobs, have made important new discoveries by putting existing knowledge into unexpected new combinations. This inventive method has led to the discoveries that have made the nation a global power.

Influential educational leader Caroline Levander provides examples of how to integrate this creative method into the student experience. She offers industry leaders, regulators, and parents valuable insight into how to make the American college experience all that it should be. After tracing the riveting and forgotten history of invention in America, Invent Ed provides a succinct and useful account of how American colleges rose to global prominence and how they operate today. It then offers guidance on how to renew US higher education and thereby ensure the nation’s ongoing vitality.

The book, Invent Ed: How an American Tradition of Innovation Can Transform College Today [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN#9780262552516 in Paperback by Caroline Field Levander may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.