Crowdsourcing for Innovation in Higher Education

Significant disruption to the educational sector occurred due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This shed a light on the need for new delivery methods and greater collaboration, which has become urgent and obvious as existing structures and traditional channels have struggled to cope or shut down. Higher education institutions often fail to crowdsource successfully because crowds differ in how they are organized compared to traditional sourcing. Instead of managing, higher education institutions work with external contributors who self-select into the process.

Crowdsourcing has significant potential to transform the education space by enhancing existing methodologies and offering innovative possibilities to develop new pedagogical techniques. This offers benefits for practitioners, institutions, students and participants. Drawing on theory and best practice, illustrated with a wide range of the examples and cases, Crowdsourcing for Innovation in Higher Education offers invaluable guidance and will be of interest to researchers, academics, policymakers, and students in the fields of higher education, development studies, organizational studies, management science and knowledge management.

Regina Lenart-Gansiniec is Associate Professor at the Department of Management of Higher Education Institutions at Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland.

Lukasz Sulkowski is Professor and Head of the Department of Management of Higher Education Institutions at Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland, President of PCG Poland and Vice-Rector of Academy WSB from Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland.