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Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change The World – now available!

Catalogue copy from the publisher (Scribner/Simon & Schuster): From a prominent educator, author, and founder of Harvard’s Change Leadership Group comes a provocative look at why innovation is today’s most essential real-world skill and what young people need from parents, teachers, and employers to become the innovators of America’s future. I N T H I S G R O U N D B R E A K I N G B O O K , education expert Tony Wagner provides a powerful rationale for developing an innovation-driven economy. He explores what parents, teachers, and employers must do to develop the capacities of young people to become innovators. http://www.tonywagner.com/resources/creating-innovators

Collaboration Suite for Higher Education

Wimba Collaboration Suite™ 6.0 The Wimba Collaboration Suite of products not only replicates the lively and dynamic interaction of traditional classroom instruction but actually improves and enriches teaching and learning for both blended and online learning. By combining interactive technologies such as voice, video, podcasting, instant messaging, application sharing, polling, and whiteboarding, students and instructors are empowered with a unique collaborative environment that extends learning beyond the boundaries of the physical classroom. Wimba offers the most comprehensive suite of collaborative products created exclusively for education. Enhance learning, improve outcomes, and increase student retention : http://www.wimba.com/solutions/higher-education/wimba_collaboration_suite_for_higher_education/