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.

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荷兰高等教育的教育创新项目：自下而上的情境应对以应对组织挑战

了解教育创新在高等教育中的启动、设计、实施和嵌入过程对于制定可持续、大规模教育创新的更好策略是必要的。早期启动的教育创新项目往往没有得到足够好的评估，因此很难确定吸取的教训。本研究的目的是调查荷兰高等教育机构创新项目的项目负责人如何应对组织挑战。为了解决这个问题，我们通过情境应对理论的视角，与在荷兰高等教育机构开展项目的创新者一起分析了定性焦点小组数据。结果表明，创新者发现了挑战（初步评估），提出了可能的解决方案（二次评估），并能够采取具体步骤（应对努力）来克服设计和实施开放在线教育创新的挑战。从这些调查结果可以得出结论，自下而上的举措可以提高意识，并能够找到当地资源来支持在当地嵌入创新，但需要适当、同步和及时的自上而下的行动，以创造可持续和用于教育创新实验和嵌入的全机构支持系统。这些发现将有助于制定更好的战略，以发展创新的教育实践和优质教育。从这些调查结果可以得出结论，自下而上的举措可以提高意识，并能够找到当地资源，以支持在当地嵌入创新，但需要适当、同步和及时的自上而下的行动，以创造一个可持续的和用于教育创新实验和嵌入的全机构支持系统。这些发现将有助于制定更好的战略，以发展创新的教育实践和优质教育。从这些调查结果可以得出结论，自下而上的举措可以提高意识，并能够找到当地资源，以支持在当地嵌入创新，但需要适当、同步和及时的自上而下的行动，以创造一个可持续的和用于教育创新实验和嵌入的全机构支持系统。这些发现将有助于制定更好的战略，以发展创新的教育实践和优质教育。