Benefits Realisation Workshops

Day 1: Next Generations Technologies in Practice – 10 March 2009

Welcome

George Roberts

Director, Emerge Project

Oxford Brookes University

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Educational R&D

• Outputs or outcomes?

• Producing artefacts or building capacity?

• Quantitative or qualitative measures?

• Easy answers or the deep complexity of institutional change?

• to support the formation of an "effective and sustainable community of practice” around the Users and Innovation Development Model, using Web2.0 technologies (def 1, def 2).

A model of software development

Explicitly adapted to community development

The aim of R&D is to bring about change; R&Dhas a transforming effect

Rigorous, anti-essentialist, critical foundation as a research method and evaluation methodology.

Appreciative inquiry

For individuals and projects:

• professional development

• collaboration with others

• improved project planning and management

• awareness of the relevance of projects in a wider context

Benefits

For institutions• to what extent are they comfortable with ceding

certain amounts of control to individuals? • to what extent are they, as established communities,

willing to cede control to new communities?

For individuals• the principal issue is to what extent do they

subordinate their autonomy and self-direction to any community?

• And, then how much do they subordinate and to which communities?

Questionsinclusion, exclusion and identity

Thank you, all!

George RobertsDirector, Emerge Project

10.10 - 10.20 Realising the benefits: embedding and supporting - Paul Bailey10.20 - 10.50 Plenary: Critical Friends Benefits Realisation - Jill Jameson

10:50 Coffee (sign up for sessions – if not already)

11:10 – 12:30 Showcase Workshopsa) The Potential for, and barriers to, using MUVEs in learning and teaching - Dave White and Steven Warburtonb) Encouraging staff to use an e-portfolio for their own professional development - Sarah Chesney, Elaine Tan, Paul Chinc) The Manchester Personal Learning Environment- Mark van Harmelen

12:30 Lunch

Programme

13.20 - 14.40 Showcase Workshopsa) The Potential for, and barriers to, using MUVEs in learning and teaching - Dave White and Steven Warburtonb) Encouraging staff to use an e-portfolio for their own professional development - Sarah Chesney, Elaine Tan, Paul Chinc) The Manchester Personal Learning Environment - Mark van Harmelen

14:40 Coffee

15:00 – 17:00 Open Space Technology sustaining emergent networks from the JISC Users & Innovation Programme - George Roberts

Programme

Realising the benefits: embedding and supporting

Paul Bailey

Benefits Realisation Coordinator

Emerge Project

“….validation and transfer to non-native institutional contexts, and building upon of outputs developed by innovation projects in order to embed them in their intended (and other) communities, thereby helping to ensure that they are useful, usable and used by users”.

Benefits Realisation

Supporting projects

building capacity

increasing take-up…

Benefits Realisation