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You can’t help wonder whether the introduction of the book led to something like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMPcsDQPAHo
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To innovate or not to innovate, that is the question
Eric Baber
Educational Technologist
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• What is innovation?
• What’s in a name?
• Of innovators and others
• What makes an innovation “fly”?
• Measures of success
• What to expect
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Overview
Could be...
• Completely new technology• New technology to a particular environment• Previously used technology in a particular environment, but new use of it• “old” activity but implemented differently• new activity
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What is innovation?
• Term “innovation” could be said to be meaningless: different people = different understanding of the term• Can help focus the discussion of a “new” tool/activity and whether to implement it
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What’s in a name?
Rogers, Diffusion of Innovations, 2003
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Of innovators and others
• Innovators• Early adopters• Early majority• Late majority• Laggards
Rogers, Diffusion of Innovations, 2003
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What makes an innovation “fly”?
• Relative advantage• Compatibility• Complexity• Trialability• Observability
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What makes an innovation “fly”?
Form of implementationtop-downinnovator-led
Institutional support
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Measures of success
• Numbers. (Of users, installations, words written, replies, uses….)• User satisfaction. Feedback from individual activities or larger-scale implementations• User motivation. More frequent participation…
cont...
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Measures of success (II)
• Achieved learning outcomes• Better results than previous learning/ teaching modes
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Example of an innovation
University of Strathclyde - Personal Response Systems
JISC Case Studies, http://tinyurl.com/2j6lag
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What to expect
• Potential chasm between (enthusiastic) innovator and (conservative/realistic) institution• The need to convince various stakeholders: instructors, students, management, for which facts will be imperative (some advice from the Dragon’s Den)
cont…
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What to expect (II)
• The need for a realistic roadplan• Realistic expectations!
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Roundup
To innovate or not to innovate?
Only if…• there are relative advantages• innovation is compatible• complexity is manageable• innovation is trialable• advantages are observable
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Thank you for joining!
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