Classes

Variability is inevitable. As innovations scale across settings, their impact tends to diminish as they encounter different needs and situations. To scale impact successfully, innovations must anticipate relevant variables and design mechanisms to foster the conditions for...

What’s necessary for an innovation to have impact at scale in the world? Creating the innovation may be the easiest part. Potential users – those the innovation is designed to impact – must find it, try it, stick with it, and implement it with sufficient fidelity to produce...

In this intensive one-week module, students will serve as design consultants to a business or nonprofit “client,” gaining hands-on experience developing a design proposal for a new product, delivery platform, or feature for an existing program. The client—an educational...

We innovate in education to generate positive change, to address inequities, and to create opportunities. In T522 students will work through a sequence of deliverables to learn and apply a process for intentional impact design. Students will choose one of 5 broad areas in...

T408 exposes the complexities of innovating for impact in education and how a more collaborative and inclusive approach can yield more equitable interventions and results. In this course, educational impact innovation refers to the development and implementation of novel...