Print Email Facebook Twitter Educational innovation projects in Dutch higher education Title Educational innovation projects in Dutch higher education: bottom-up contextual coping to deal with organizational challenges Author Schophuizen, M.J.F. (TU Delft Web Information Systems; Open University of the Netherlands) Kalz, Marco (Heidelberg University of Education) Date 2020-12-01 Abstract Understanding the process of initiation, design, implementation and embedding of educational innovations in higher education is necessary to develop better strategies for sustainable, large-scale educational innovation. Often early initiated educational innovation projects are not evaluated well enough, making it hard to identify lessons learned. The aim of this study is to investigate how project leaders of innovation projects in Dutch higher education institutions are coping with organizational challenges. To address this we analysed qualitative focus group data with innovators that run projects at Dutch higher education institutions through the lens of contextual coping theory. Results show that the innovators identified challenges (primary appraisal), proposed possible solutions (secondary appraisal) and also were able to take concrete steps (coping efforts) to overcome challenges to design and implement open online educational innovations. From these findings it can be concluded that bottom-up initiatives can create awareness and are capable of finding local resources to establish support for embedding innovations locally, yet, appropriate, synchronized and timely top-down action is needed in order to create a sustainable and institution wide support system for experimentation and embedding of educational innovations. These findings will contribute towards developing better strategies to develop innovative educational practices and quality education. Subject Coping theoryEducational innovationOrganizational embedding To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:313650ce-2887-40fc-b315-5db35a27de89 DOI https://doi.org/10.1186/s41239-020-00197-z Source International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 17 (1) Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2020 M.J.F. Schophuizen, Marco Kalz Files PDF s41239_020_00197_z_1.pdf 461.43 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:313650ce-2887-40fc-b315-5db35a27de89/datastream/OBJ/view