This document outlines Veronica Diaz's presentation on working successfully with emerging technologies and innovations. The presentation discusses developing a 10% portfolio for innovation, institutional examples of piloting new technologies, and rubrics for evaluating emerging technologies. It provides resources for focusing sessions on innovation, examples of university innovation programs, and encourages discussing how to structure time and support for innovative projects. The overall presentation provides guidance on piloting, assessing, and integrating disruptive technologies into academic institutions.

1. Working Successfully with
Emerging Technologies and
Innovations
Veronica Diaz, PhD
Associate Director
EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative
EDUCAUSE
June 2013

2. Resources
http://tinyurl.com/worktech

3. What we’re doing today:
§ The role of innovation in the portfolio
§ Developing the 10% for innovation
§ Institutional example: working with
emerging technologies
§ Rubrics and decision making

4. Working Successfully with
Emerging Technologies and
Innovations

5. Discover
Pilot
? Now What ?

6. Feeding Core
Services Through
Disruptive
Innovation

9. Over-emphasis on efficiency and quick turnaround tends
to produce standard, in-the-box ideas
A “can’t-afford-to-fail” constraint can produce
unimaginative, short-term, even short-sighted solutions
Out-of-the-box thinking depends on a conducive, out-ofthe-ordinary work environment

11. Evolutionary thinking is about either new
audiences or new services
Truly disruptive thinking is about new audiences
and new services
The health of the core is nurtured by innovative,
out-of-the-box thinking
The value of the “disruptive 10%” is learning,
which can be imported back into the core

12. Increase
agility
and
innova1on
in
the
other
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areas

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16. Innovation should be about gathering as much
learning as possible through the process of
launching an innovation.

17. Those involved in innovation should have
nearly complete freedom to create and
develop and should have radical autonomy,
right from the start of their employment with
the organization. They should be solely
dedicated to innovating.

18. Allow individuals to be passionate
about their interests.

19. You are your own brand. Allow each person to
build their own paths of exploration and
expertise in areas that interest them.

20. Leadership is a reflection, not a vision.
Avoid directing and instead reflect.
You’re not an arrow; you’re a mirror.

21. Don’t predetermine the outcome—
instead, focus on the process.

22. Those active in disruptive innovation, the 10%,
should be questioning what the organization is
about to discover what it is not.

23. Is this possible?
§ Find
§ A discussion partner or partners
§ Discuss
§ How can you set up the 10% (if not, how else)
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Who would they be
What would they do
How would they be supported
Permanent or temporary
Integrated into other units or not

24. Pilots 101

25. What nuggets from the innovative space
should you import to the core? AND how?

26. Discover
Pilot
? Now What ?

27. Institutional Example:
Penn State’s Hot Teams
§ Rapid investigation
§ Goals:
§ learn more
§ quickly develop understanding
§ Recommends:
§ should we implement and to what extent

28. The Team and Tasks
§ 4-5 diverse members + ….. intended user and
existing user
§ Answer 7 things questions
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What is it?
How does it work?
Who's doing it?
Why is it significant?
What are the downsides?
Where is it going?
What are the implications for higher education?
§ 4 weeks

29. Timeline
§ Week 1: Team meets and shares what they
know about the topic and identifies
knowledge gaps (benefits, applications).
§ Week 2: Team uses the tool or technique,
documents their experience, explores what
they don’t know, and seeks expert/
practitioner input (downsides, limitations).

30. Timeline
§ Week 3: Team discusses their findings,
answers any remaining questions, and
completes a draft of the final document.
§ Week 4: Team finalizes the document, and
sometimes a video of the tool/technique in
action, to be displayed on the Hot Teams
website (http://tlt.its.psu.edu/hot-team).

31. Hot Team: Personal Video
Collaboration Tools
http://tlt.its.psu.edu/2013/02/04/hot-team-personal-videocollaboration-tools/
ELI’s 7 Things You Should Know
About…
http://www.educause.edu/research-and-publications/7things-you-should-know-about/7-things-you-should-knowabout-learning-technology-topics

32. Discover
Pilot
? Now What ?

33. Resources
http://tinyurl.com/worktech

34. Gyorke/Penn State Rubric
West FL Rubric
utility
strategic alignment
creativity
potential value
efficacy
student count impact
feasibility
ROI
risk
resources
resistance
student engagement impact
Hopkins Rubric
Duke Rubric
curriculum connection
analysis methodology
authenticity
data gathering
feedback
analysis
differentiation
drafting recommendations
user friendliness
advocacy
student motivation
reporting

35. Putting It All Together
§ Find a discussion partner or partners
§ Discuss which of the rubrics would be most
useful to you? Why?
§ Share insights and discoveries

36. Resources

37. tinyurl.com/seicases

38. ELI 2012 Fall Focus Session
Working Successfully with Emerging
Technologies and Innovations

39. tinyurl.com/ffs12recordings

40. Focus Session Resources

41. Contact
Veronica Diaz, PhD: vdiaz@educause.edu
Associate Director
EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative
EDUCAUSE