steven parker presentation
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Ignite eLearning innovationthrough management
The Culture Shift
Steven Parker
Innovation premise
• Teams of people
• Learning from each other
• Process to follow
• To ignite their innovation
What culture shift?
Our Challenge
To support the embedding of technology enhanced learning innovation to improve students’ engagement and outcomes.
Embed technology use
How to shift the culture?
Management
• Lead ‘innovation culture’
• Nurture ‘innovation culture’
• Support the innovators
• Facilitate innovation
• Capture innovative ideas
Ref: “2020 Vision Report: The Manager of the 21st Century
Nurture ‘innovation culture’
The design challenge
• Every project is different
–Time-lines
–Complexity
–Goals
–People involved
–Capability...
• This program is for project teams using a defined staged process:
–The stated outcomes
–The method to adopt
–The approach explained
• Face 2 face training – 3hrs
• For project managers & facilitators
• A supporting Moodle course
Team based facilitation activities for project stages based on :–Engaging a project team
(Appreciative enquiry)–Learning-by-doing
(Action learning)–Supporting individuals
(Communities of practice)–Encouraging creativity within team
(We teach each other)
The techno shockis too much!
“I was well and truly out of my depth”
Karen– Commercial cookery teacher
“Wow, how an experience that I presumed would be negative transpired into a positive”
Karen – Commercial cookery teacher
Facilitation - Key discoveries
“To get people involved you need to try a variety of approaches”
“It is like ‘Inception’ sometimes people need to believe they came up with the idea themselves”
“Bring as much enthusiasm to the project as you can feasibly muster – it is infectious”
Heather – Project Facilitator
Innovation@Work Case Study“Moodle in the Philippines”
Innovation@Work Case Study
Innovation@Work project process
• Stage 1 Planning
• Stage 2 Engaging the team
• Stage 3 Team Conversation
• Stage 4 Implement Project
• Stage 5 Continual Improvement
• What worked?
Stage 1: Planning
People: Project sponsor and facilitator
• Target a key project area and identify the staff to involve in achieving goals
• Capture innovative ideas
• Develop the brief using the Project Blueprint
Stage 2: Engaging the team
People: Facilitator & team
• A presentation of something authenticeg a Moodle
– importance of learning design
– a Project Hub/ Team focal point
• Meeting room and equipment
–…and food!
The project hub
Stage 3: Team conversation
People: Facilitator with team
• Presentation is key
• Listening is key
• Organise
• Walk before you run
• E.g. Moodle@SWSI training
Support the innovators (Project team)
Moodle the tool of choice
• Expressing something for others to see
• Collaborative
• Flexible and adaptable
• My very own Moodle sandpit
Team effectiveness tool
Stage 4: Implement project
People: Facilitator, support & team
• Address concerns
• My very own Moodle
• Short term win
• Bring in support
• Participation
Structured template
Project success, what worked?
• Focus from control to engagement
• Balance control and participation
• Clarity, simplicity & common sense
• Respect
• Purpose and responsibility
Where to next?
• Innovation@Work program rollout
• Investment in faculty project teams
• Short term wins
• Embed
“We now know that the unknown is nothing to be feared but should be embraced”
Karen – Commercial cookery teacher
ContactSteven ParkerEducational Designer - [email protected]