Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Embracing Failure to Spur Success: A New Collaborative Innovation Model - Kim Wilcox and Edward J. Ray, EDCUAUSE Review

On college and university campuses across the United States, we're surrounded by a resource that leads to discovery, innovation, and growth—yet we don't embrace it at the leadership level. That resource? Failure. Failure is happening every day in our labs and classrooms and is essential to the learning and discovery process in both settings. As our research scientists attempt to make breakthrough discoveries, they run through repeated trials that fail to deliver the hoped-for results, but each failure provides another clue pointing in the direction of a solution. In classrooms, we encourage students in every discipline to question and analyze the information we put before them. Have we ever criticized them for being "wrong"? Not at all. We congratulate them on having the courage to ask new questions, and we encourage them to keep going. http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/embracing-failure-spur-success-new-collaborative-innovation-model