Presenter: Anthony F. Camilleri (EFQUEL)

Paper Contributors: Fabio Nasimbeni (MENON Network), Claudio Dondi (SCIENTER), Ulf Ehlers (EFQUEL), Carmen L. Padron-Napoles (ATOS Innovation)

Time for a New Approach to Innovation in Technology Enhanced Learning?

HOTEL: Holistic Technology Enhanced Learning

• FP7 Support Action

• Oct 2012 – Sept 2014

• Consortium

Issues addressed by HOTEL

• TEL research so far focused mostly on technologies developed «ad-hoc» for learning

• Bottom up innovation in TEL not yet sufficiently considered by research (input to learning theories)

• Impact of available learning theories on TEL practices not sufficiently analysed

Need for working paradigms on how to support innovation and

mainstreaming

• To design an innovation support model to speed up mainstreaming;

• To pilot the designed innovation cycle in three real life environments (Learning Exploratorium Labs on Higher Education, Workplace and Individual Professional Learning);

• To disseminate and create awareness in the research and practice community about the results of HOTEL;

• To help FP7 projects to identify new challenges and include TEL projects in the Labs, where relevant;

• To ensure sustainability and multiplication of HOTEL by providing to TEL actors and stakeholders a validated shortened Innovation Cycle for TEL.

The HOTEL objectives

The HOTEL workplan

• Report attempts comprehensive list of emerging technologies, grouped into clusters.

Emerging Technologies Landscape

• Web 2.0 based tools and systems• Ubiquitous computing• Augmented reality• Access-to-content related technologies• Human computer interaction• Learning analytics• Games and virtual worlds

• Environments and technologies for collaboration

• Semantic-aware systems• Personalised, adaptive technologies• Other technologies• Networks of excellence

• Each technology analysed in terms of relevance to education, and time/barriers to mainstream adoption

• Why do so many research projects into technology fail to provide sustainable results? (over 50 surveyed)

• What is missing from the typicalResearch Develop Pilot Disseminate Valorise methodology?

• How can we improve things (support action)?

Unofficial Research Question

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Contextualising within the Innovation Process

PLAN the innovation

testing process

ACT implement the innovation testing process

REVIEW The whole set of processes

in view of their further

development

ASSESS the results of the process

2 years

The HOTEL ambition

Looking for Practice

(Milwood, 2013)

Looking for Practice

(Milwood, 2013)

Looking for Practice

(Milwood, 2013)

• Public call for innovators via the HOTEL website

• C. 60 applications received – 21 to be tested to be tested conceptually, and 9 to be tested ‘live’

Scouting Grassroot Innovators

grassrootsimplementation scopesize of idea-generatordegree of actual change

not due to impact potential

• Lab 1: Learning in Higher Education – hosted by UNIR university (La Rioja)

• Lab 2: Learning at Work – hosted by UNIR

• Lab 3: Learning in Professional Networks – hosted by EFQUEL

Each lab will serve as a live test-bed for testing and implementing innovations

and the support model itself

Innovation Labs

Innovation Support ModelProcess Diagram

Testing Adoption / Diffusion Potential

Step 1: Classify cases in terms of learning-theories:

Testing Adoption / Diffusion Potential

Step 2: Collect information on target groups, and intended aims

Step 3: Analyse these in terms of needs / problems addressed and potential impact

Step 4: Assess Innovativeness – cross with emerging technologies map

• Stakeholder Panel to Assess Innovation• Innovator Panel to Assess Innovation

Analysing Perceived Characteristics of the Innovation

Criteria:• relative advantage: how is it better than the existing method in terms of

potential for learning?• efficiency: does it achieve the same learning with fewer resources?• complexity: how difficult is it to understand / interface with pedagogical

norms• startup difficulty: how hard is it to implement within the context of

existing systems• scalability: how easy is it to deploy across educational systems?

Desired Outcomes

Our Innovation Support Model, after several iterations should:

• Provide an analytical framework to classify innovations, and properly understand their advantage/contribution within a pedagogical context

• Assist decision-makers/funders to pick ‘winners’• Help innovators to:

• properly formulate their ideas in a way which aids introduction• highlight lacunae in their diffusion/adoption strategies• assist them in developing indicators to improve their

diffusion/adoption

• OVERALL: Accelerate mainstreaming of technologies into education

Questions and comments?

http://hotel-project.eu

Anthony F. Camillerianthony@camilleri.com

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