INNOV 302Measuring and Evaluating Social Innovation for Impact

This course will introduce students to methods that can be used to measure the impact of social innovations across disciplinary domains. They will learn how to utilize a range of monitoring and evaluation methodologies and tools with a particular focus on impact measurements within constituent communities. Rather than taking a prescriptive approach, students will be encouraged to explore the limitations of these methods and understand the evaluation process as a dynamic process involving the evolving needs of constituencies as their circumstances change. Through this process, students will learn to integrate the evaluation process into the early development of their social innovation initiatives.