Realising Learning Innovation: A Message from the MountainLearning Café

1. Realising Learning Innovation
: A Message from the Mountain
Learning Café
Professor Gilly Salmon
Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education Innovation)

2. How do we shine a light on a place that as yet doesn’t exist?
Ask yourself...
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4. Spirit Science 21 – Toroidal Flow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-4zdmd0TNU4/12/2015
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7. new
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new
present
present
Well-established
preferred pedagogies
&
University owned &
invested technologies
Responses to
challenges &
opportunities
Future: potential
technologies for
emergent learning
& learners
Established
approaches &
programs
embracing new
technological
opportunities for
learning
Strategic frameworkCapability & Capacity Building Innovation, research and prototyping
Missions
Markets
Contexts
Technology
& Pedagogy
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8. Well-established
preferred pedagogies
&
University owned &
invested technologies
Gillysalmon.com/carpe-diem
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Does it Work?
Does Carpe Diem change students’ learning?
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10. Gillysalmon.com/carpe-diem
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11. 31
Workshops
211
Units/module
s
320
Academics/Fa
culty
360 Staff
82-85% of participants
agreed effectively
supported new teaching
and activities
76-85% of participants recommend
to colleagues
79% already implementing changes to
their learning design
Carpe Diem
Seizing the
Day:
Carpe Diem
Learning
Design
2015
at the
University of
Western
Australia
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12. C@N-DO at the University of Northampton
Developed in response to:
• institutional needs, priorities and targets
• the UK (Higher Education Academy)
Professional Standard Framework
Aims:
• Professional Development & Assessment that
is practical and directly related to teaching
• Flexibility:
• mode of delivery
• speed of progression
• achievement of external recognition (Fellowships)
Responses to
challenges &
opportunities
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13. Practical
Courses
(‘New Teacher’)
< Level 7
Education
Doctorate
modules
Level 8
Associate Fellow
Senior Fellow
Education
Doctorate
Peer Review
Mentoring
Scholarship
Level 8
Practical courses:
(new and existing
staff), aligned with
Standards
framework
< Level 7>
Fellow
Post Graduate
Certificate credits
Level 7
Qualifications
Development in:
Mentoring,
Leadership, Policy,
Research Supervision,
(new and existing
staff), aligned with
Standards Framework
Level 7
C@N-DO at the University of NorthamptonResponses to
challenges &
opportunities
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Established
approaches &
programs
embracing new
technological
opportunities for
learning

15. Future: potential
technologies for
emergent learning
& learners
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17. Activity 1 (20 minutes)
1. Discuss (around the table) innovations in your own organization
2. Discuss (around the table) which quadrant you would place them in
and why
3. Write one, two or three key words on the ‘sticky note’ and place
them in the ‘right’ place on your landscape illustration.
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18. Activity 2 (10 minutes)
1. Discuss (around the table) innovations in your own organization
2. Discuss (around the table) which quadrant you would place them in
and why
3. Write one, two or three key words on the ‘sticky note’ and place
them in the ‘right’ place on your landscape illustration Agree
(around the table) which learning innovations are the most radical,
risky and potentially impactful
4. Choose one learning innovation to represent your table
5. Prepare a 60 second ‘pitch’ to argue why it could prove to be a
‘game-changer’
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19. Activity 3 (15 minutes)
1. Discuss (around the table) innovations in your own organization
2. Discuss (around the table) which quadrant you would place them in and
why
3. Write one, two or three key words on the ‘sticky note’ and place them in
the ‘right’ place on your landscape illustration Agree (around the table)
which learning innovations are the most radical, risky and potentially
impactful
4. Choose one learning innovation to represent your table
5. Prepare a 60 second ‘pitch’ to argue why it could prove to be a ‘game-
changer’
6. Present your one minute pitch to the whole group
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20. Activity 3 (15 minutes)
Each group presents their one minute ‘pitch’ to the whole Café
The whole Café will
a) Indicate how they could help develop or deliver on the ‘message’
b) Vote on the biggest game changer – the ‘Message from the
Mountain’
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21. Activity 3 (5 minutes to lunch)
Exchange business cards and follow up contact details.
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22. “Never doubt the power of a small group of
people to change the world. Nothing else
ever has”.
Margaret Mead
Thanks for taking part
“Every society honours its live conformists and its dead
troublemakers.“
Mignon McLaughlin
No budgets or humans were harmed in the making of this presentation
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:
“If you don’t like change,
you’re going to like irrelevance even less.”
Eric Shinsek
,
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23. www.eurodl.org/materials/contrib/2014/Salmon.pdf - journal article on the 4 quadrants framework (open
source)
About the University of Western Australia – the approach to ‘Pursue Impossible”
http://www.pursueimpossible.uwa.edu.au/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfv_cC243vQ
“Those who pursue what may at first seem impossible are the ones who keep the world turning.”
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies is a book written by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras.
The first edition of the book was published on October 26, 1994 by HarperBusiness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Built_to_Last:_Successful_Habits_of_Visionary_Companies. Key point is that your
vision needs to be clear and steadfast but your operating models MUST ADAPT to sustain.
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail,, is the most well-known work of
the Harvard professor and businessman Clayton Christensen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma. And is a key text on ‘disruption’ by technologies.
More recent books have explored the issues including in the Education context. (However very Harvard and US
based).
http://www.ottoscharmer.com/publications/executive-summaries -
Theory U – leading from the emerging future.
http://innovationyou.com/ lots of inspiration from Jeff DeGraff,
University of Michigan.
https://timklapdor.wordpress.com/2015/04/10/innovation-and-the-novelty-factory - keep us focused on real
innovation
http://hackeducation.com/2015/02/19/the-history-of-the-future-of-education/ Great pictures and a reminder
that prediction is political
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/glimpse-future-oscars-innovation-higher-education/ Get on the
bridge with flipping
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5802FBaMSI
John Kotter on creating a sense of urgency
www.trainingzone.co.uk/downloads/business-and-education-collaborating-success/187985
Digital higher education through partnership - an Australian success story (Salmon & McKenzie 2014).
Registration on the site required- but free to download. Example of Quadrant 2)
https://www.accenture.com/us-en/insight-trends-service-design-fjord
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3CKsuv0Sbk – wearables
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjNrP6JmuDA – robots
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdlmoLAbbiQ – drones
http://www.nmc.org/publication/nmc-horizon-report-2015-higher-education-edition/ A bridge to start crossing
http://www.washington.edu/teaching/files/2012/11/FlippedClassroomUWcolors-1-1024x242.jpg
Thanks to Rod Angood of Vision Directing for the landscape illustrations
Resources
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