By: Kyle Wagner

Former design strategist and project Manager Kyle Wagner shares his experience working on our team and details his personal journey with the Office of Scholarship and Innovation.

By: Jennifer Stein and Cassandra Kellaris

Over 160 educators, leaders and community members engaged in Project Springboard from spring to summer of 2021, spanning across the US, Canada and Australia. The project wrapped up in August with a final online session, and we have created a report that summarizes the experience, outcomes and feedback we received. A common theme was the value of connecting with like-minded educators from across the world, especially during the challenges of COVID.

By: Sean Leahy

Revisit the keynote for the 2021 ShapingEDU Winter Games, a story of uncertainty, disruption, and resilience. See how we define learning futures, tackle the challenge of designing educational systems, explore strategic foresight tools, and build an ecosystem if resilience into our IgnitED Labs.

By: Punya Mishra

Danah Henriksen and I were recently invited to present a keynote (and conduct two workshops) on design thinking and STEAM education at the 2021 NV STEAM conference, organized by the Nevada Museum of Art and Desert Research Institute.

By: Kyle Wagner

In late 2019, the OofSI team was approached by Access ASU and Be A Leader Foundation about an opportunity to provide training to a group of newly hired coaches who would be working with schools in multiple school districts.

By: Benjamin Scragg

Learn about our team’s effort to lead a national workshop collaboration focused on the designing future undergraduate STEM education, and the lessons we learned along the way about collaborating remotely and at scale.

By: Punya Mishra

Implementing large-scale changes within educational systems can be a challenging task. In this paper we argue that these efforts can be fruitfully seen as being an act of design that take place within a complex social system.

By: Punya Mishra

“What knowledge is of most worth?” is a question asked over a 100 years ago by the English philosopher, Herbert Spencer. His unequivocal answer was—science.

By: Punya Mishra

It is rarely that I hear a talk that blows me away.

By: Punya Mishra

All of us involved in social design (and I include education in among those as well) ask ourselves, or are asked this question: How do we measure the impact of

By: Punya Mishra and Cristy Guleserian

This is the second of two posts on the topic of bringing principled innovation practices to designing learning futures.

By: Punya Mishra and Cristy Guleserian

This is the first of two posts on the topic of bringing principled innovation practices to designing learning futures.

By: Punya Mishra

Theory is of incredible importance to scholars and researchers. Theories allow us to understand, explain and predict phenomena in the world. That said it is often difficult to say just where theories come from.

By: Kyle Wagner

Before you can build an education or training game, it’s important to figure out what the instructional goals and learning objectives need to be for your players.

By: Punya Mishra

Our college has embraced the idea of Principled Innovation as being a core value that informs everything we do.