Vana Kamtsiou, BRUNEL(vana.kamtsiou@brunel.ac.uk

e-Learning micro-innovation matters!International seminar, 25-26 March 2014, CoR Brussels

First learning café: Barriers to scalability and mainstreaming

Input from HoTEL project

http://hotel-project.eu/

The HoTEL Innovation Support Model?

Scope: Model that will help innovators to come

• From point A (idea, research, early prototype, small scale innovative practice)

• to point B (innovation, advanced prototype, exploitable product, large scale innovative practice)

‒ making a significant progress, faster and in a consistent way

‒ taking a holistic approach (e.g. technical, theoretical, educational, relational, social, business, etc.)

─Multi-stakeholder ecosystem: 3 Exploratorium labs. Actual innovations and practical, on the ground, with real users and in a real context-setting; HEIs, Workplace, Professional net.

─3 strands: emerging technologies (WP1), emerging practices (WP2), bottom-up innovations (WP3).

Origins of TEL innovations models: need for a more integrative approach

Technology and Industry-led, in which the availability of a new technology, normally not specifically designed for learning, finds a number of educational or informal learning applications.

Research-led, in which learning theories search and find application in experimental learning settings that are created and monitored to check learning effectiveness, usability and other key features.

Practice-led, spontaneous bottom up innovation emerging from individuals or communities of teachers and learners that find original ways of using technology to materialise new ideas about learning and teaching and are able to demonstrate their effectiveness in new contexts of use;

Policy-led innovation, materialised by the many national programmes launched since the 80s to diffuse ICT and its use in classrooms.

Technology

PracticeTheory

TEL Innovation drivers

Holistic approach

HoTEL innovation ecosystems

Difficulty of adoption and scale: TEL Systemic Innovations

Systemically interconnected TEL innovation typesAdapted from Jari Kaivo, 2011

Systemic changes in one of these innovation types, can introduce changes or innovations in the other 3 types as well.

Not linear, single rooted, or independent

butSystemic, several

converging technologies, often competing, complex

interactions of many players, holistic solutions

Need for Supply –demand integration

What needs to change in coordinated fashion

Functional logic of the strategic innovation framework

Key element driving the innovation

Social Business

Learning practicesInnovations

Technological innovation framework

Subsystems

Related Business innovations, learning and social changes

Technology intelligence to assess technology gaps and plan for adoption

Technology forecasting : technologies possible evolution from existing trends. Assess technology readiness and ability to add value in existing solutions. (focus on incremental innovations)

Technology Foresight: The identification of emerging technologies and the possible commercialization of such technologies in TEL. (focus on disruptive innovations)

Technology assessment: Identification of risks, opportunities and threats related to such developments and the impacts of these technologies at some time in the future.

A plan for adoption of the foreseen innovations must be developed, which would include all the relevant actors involved in the innovations functional logic for implementation. (systemic)

Activities involvedTechnology forecasting: incremental innovations identify critical requirements and “products” to be developed (added value). identify major technology areas and technology drivers. identify technology alternatives and their possible evolution based on strong trends,

historical data, hype curves and technology life cycles or S-Curves.

Technology Foresight: disruptive innovations What are the possible innovation opportunities stemming from the emerging

technologies? What will be their potential for commercialization, in terms of desired applications,

products or services? Which products, technologies, practices or even markets will be replacing? What will be the resistance from the current players in the market? What it means in terms of the adoption of the new technologies? PESTLE drivers, scenarios development, Delphi studies, bibliometrics .

Technology assessment: Whether we have to deal with incremental, disruptive innovations, or systemic TEL innovations, a technology assessment in terms of technology readiness to deliver the innovation opportunities needs to be performed. Most common methods include surveys in form of interviews with experts in both technologies (ICT) and business, gap/SWOT analysis,