Educational Innovation:How can we use our leadership skills,

grounded in the WI Idea, to support online and hybrid learning

experiences?

The UW-Madison Women and Leadership Symposium 2012

Maury Cotter, Jeanne Blochwitz, and Linda Jorn June 28, 2012

Today’s Goals

Update you on University of Wisconsin- Madison Educational Innovation (EI) efforts (http://edinnovation.wisc.edu/) Discuss how innovation (sustainable and disruptive) impacts and bridges peoples’ reaction to change  Discuss what we can learn from the WI Idea and apply to today’s EI efforts State one to three actions you will take this summer to support campus EI efforts

A Strategic Framework for Advancing our Vision:“A Model Public University”

Defining Educational Innovation

Improve capacities and generate new resources

to enhance student learning and research excellence.

Student Learning

Research Excellence

Capacities New

Revenue

Incubating Ideas• Incubator Sessions: Over 450 faculty and staff

attended a dozen incubators• Peer-to-Peer Workshops: new revenue (including

toolkits), curriculum redesign, blended learning

• Leadership and governance groups• Showcase: 12 posters, keynote, 6 flash talks, video

http://quality.wisc.edu/445.htm

• Town Hall for Information Technology • Teaching and Learning Symposium

Gearing Up for Year Two

Transform curriculum Blended/online learning Professional Masters and Certificates Summer courses Degree completion

UW-Madison Information Technology Strategic Planning Guiding Principles

Innovation

Innovators will have the capacity to innovate at the “edge” and explore new ways of better scaling high quality teaching

and learning modes or tools/technologies.

Innovation

An innovation is an idea, practice, or object that is perceived as new by

an individual or other unit of adoption.

Everett Rogers. Diffusion of Innovations. Fifth Edition. 2003

Innovation ≠

Key Point

Innovation is a process, not an event

Types of innovation

14

Sustaining innovation

Incremental

Established paradigm

Valued by current customers

Predictable

Incremental

Established paradigm

Valued by current customers

Predictable

Disruptive innovation

Sweeping

New paradigm

Appeal to niche

Unpredictable

Underperform

Sweeping

New paradigm

Appeal to niche

Unpredictable

Underperform

Christensen, Clayton M.2000. The Innovator’s Dilemma. HarperBusiness. New York, NY.

Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change

Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change. William Bridges, 2003.

Current educational paradigm

New paradigm

Sustaining innovation

Disruptive innovation

Two Loops: How Systems ChangeDeborah Frieze

Navigating change Explain the purpose

Paint a picture of the outcomes

Identify a planning process

Provide people with a role – their part

Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change. William Bridges, 2003.

The Wisconsin Idea

Gwen Drury and T&L Symposium Attendees, May 23, 2012

Carousel Activity1. What are some of the most innovative online or hybrid teaching or learning processes, practices, tools, or ideas you have seen or experienced? Are they sustainable or disruptive?  2. How can we leverage the culture of the Wisconsin Idea to extend learning opportunities to new learners and communities? Who are our new learners?  3. What actions will you take this summer to support campus Educational Innovation efforts? 4. Describe your units readiness for change related to EI efforts around online and hybrid learning environments.

Questions About Educational Innovation?Contact….

• Aaron M. Brower, Vice Provost for Teaching & Learning

• Maury Cotter, Director, Office of Quality Improvement

• Jeffrey S. Russell. Vice Provost for Lifelong Learning and Dean UW-Madison Continuing Studies

• Mo Bischof, Assistant Vice Provost, Office of the Provost

• Bruce Maas, Vice Provost for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer

• Linda Jorn, Director, Academic Technology, Division of Information Technology

Resources Berkun, Scott. 2007. The Myths of Innovation. O’Reilly Media, Inc. Sebastopol, CA.

Bridges, William. 2003. Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change. Perseus Books Groups. Philadelphia, PA.

Christensen, Clayton M. 2000. The Innovator’s Dilemma. HarperBusiness. New York, NY.

Christensen, Clayton M. and Eyring, Henry J. 2011.The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out. Jossey-Bass. San Francisco, CA.

  Kelley, Tom with Littman, Jonathan. 2001. The Art of Innovation: Lessons in

Creativity from IDEO, America’s Leading Design Firm. Doubleday. New York, NY.  Verganti, Roberto. 2009. Design-Driven Innovation: Changing the Rules of

Competition by Radically Innovating What Things Mean. Harvard Business Press. Boston, MA.

Thank You!

Questions?

Strategic innovation

A Strategic Framework for Advancing our Vision:“A Model Public University”

Upcoming Events

• Distance Education conference - Aug 8-10

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