1

Introduction to Innovation

Mike Parsons and Mary Rose

2

The Key Features

• Theory and Practice :Mary and Mike !• We require your Active participation • Not a (passive) lecture based course• EBIN 504 site http://sakai.lancs.ac.uk

• Course space • Group space• Personal space some public (about you) • some private (learning log and private storage)

• Keynote lectures, opening and closing • Face to face workshops• Small group interaction and team working

How your work on the course fits together

INNOVATION SEARCH

Group work and group assessed

What?

Innovation articles 10 weeks of course

Collaborative linked web pages

Where to post? Group innovation search Wiki

50% of final mark-10% of this is your overall group work

adjusted by peer assessment

WEEKLY WORKSHOP PREPARATION

Group work which underpins everything

Theory

Applications

Using background synthesis and workshop questions

Where to post: Workshop Forum each week

Who sees? Whole course

Discuss further in workshop

LEARNING LOG

Personal learning individual assessment

What? Your academic journey through the course, your analysis, your research

Where to post? Learning Log

Who sees? Only you and your tutors who will comment

50% of your final mark

4

Workshops

• Your weekly workshop is in 2 parts• 1 Innovation search :iSearch –Analysis of your

weekly choice of innovation article• 2 Discussion of theory and cases raised by prepared

material– Preparation can occur at any time any place working

together on– Background Synthesis– Workshop questions

• Posting findings on EBIN 504 site by 12.00pm on Wednesday before workshop

5

Learning Log: Your personal journey

• What is it ?

• What to include ?

• Why important ?

• Read guidelines on LH Toolbar : Course Guidelines

6

and what to avoid

• AVOID

• Simply describing what happened in the workshop

• Merely repeating the content of background synthesis

7

So what does a good and a bad learning log look like ?

• What does a learning log look like?

• See learning log guidelines under Course Guidelines

8

Innovation search: iSearch

• What is it ?

• Why important?

• What to collect?

• What to reject?

• How much to collect?

• What to do with it?

• See iSearch in Course Guidelines

9

Innovation search: iSearch

• Why important?– Innovators need to understand the world

beyond their immediate business– 50% of marks

• Group assignment using a Wiki

10

Innovation Search Assessment

• Stage 1 9 Article postings on wiki with 3 sentences saying what the innovation does.

• Stage 2 to be completed by 21 January 2011An extended analysis by group

See Innovation Search under Course Guidelines

Innovative learning process for teaching

innovation.

• Theory and practice• Active learning• Crossing boundaries and holistic learning• Collaboration and team working• Individual learning

Group Wiki

Forum and face to face workshops

Online Learning log

What to do next

• 1. Choose a group name (10 Minutes)• For feedback to whole group (in 20 mins time) • Using Course Guidelines and go to• –iSearch Stage 1 and• - Weekly workshop • Find out : • a) what to prepare for next week’s workshop • b) Where to post it • c)When • d) and write this down ready to explain

12

What do we do for next week

• Group work

• iSearch post to Group workspace

• Workshop theory to 504 Course : Workshop Theory Forum

• Individuals

• First Learning log