In many classrooms, teaching still relies on the old-fashioned 'sage on the stage' model. Is education ready for what technology can offer?

As part of a series of posts on open innovation, written for and published by InnoCentive, we pose the question of whether crowdsourcing is changing education. Read on to see what we think. In the quarter-century since the first website was published, the internet has changed our lives. Amazon puts access to over 500 million products before us, Spotify lets us stream over 30 million songs and Facebook allows us to connect with over 2 billion people around the world. We know t

Having recently come to the end of an intensive contract, I've found I've had more time to reflect. I have, of course, been thinking about what comes next. But I've also been considering my performance, and how I can continue to improve how I work. And that reflection has led me to a concept that's becoming well known in schools, but perhaps less so in business: a growth mindset. The concept was developed by Stanford Psychology Professor Carol Dweck, to describe the different

A recent article in the MIT Technology Review posed an important question. ‘Will robots and software replace most human workers?’ Are we in the age of the robot? And, if so, what does it mean for our future, and that of the next generation? Is the race against the robots one we can win? There is much debate about the impact that technology will have in the coming years. With more of us becoming aware of the Internet of Things, we might welcome the promise of smart devices aro