A Call for Missional Moonshots in Educational Innovation: Dr. Bernard Bull, President, Concordia University (NE)

<p>In this highly dynamic conversation, <a href="https://www.bernardbull.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Bernard Bull </a>shares his insights about everything from the importance of mission-informed innovation and understanding that innovation is not a one size fits all endeavor to building consensus and support for a new and creative effort, working through resistance to knowing when to move on, and what it takes to develop the mindset and capacity for educational innovation.</p> <p>Dr. Bull is not new to educational innovation. He launched one of the earliest online high school programs in the 1990s, led many curricular innovations, studied and learned from over a hundred innovative learning organizations and products, and launched the first master&#39;s degree program built upon competency-based digital badges. Bull is the author of eight books including the highly popular <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Missional-Moonshots-Inspiration-Educational-Innovation/dp/1936830868/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=missional+moonshots+bernard+bull&qid=1618330629&sr=8-1">⁠Missional Moonshots: Insight and Inspiration for Educational⁠</a> Innovation (2016), he created the blog Etale, which eventually ranked as one of the top 50 education blogs on the Internet for almost a decade, created the Moonshot Edu Show podcast, served as CEO of Birdhouse Learning Labs, and has given well over 100 invited and keynote presentations throughout the United States and around the world.</p> <p>Bull, a leader in Christian Lutheran higher education, assumed the presidency of <a href="https://www.cune.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Concordia University (NE) </a>in 2020, after leading a turnaround effort as <a href="https://www.goddard.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Goddard College (VT)</a> president. </p> --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/chelip/message