Sustaining and embedding innovations to achieve institutional enhancement
Sustaining and embedding innovations to achieve institutional enhancement in learning and teaching. • • Peter Bullen & Peter Chatterton – Critical Friends Rebecca Galley (Open University – OULDI Project) Maria Papaefthimiou (University of Reading – OULDI Project) Mark Russell (University of Hertfordshire – ESCAPE Project) Paul Bartholomew (Birmingham City University - T-SPARC project) Marion Manton (University of Oxford – CASCADE project) Catherine O’Donnell (University of Ulster – Viewpoints project) An output from the JISC Transforming Curriculum Delivery through Technology programme and Institutional Approaches to Curriculum Design programme.
Workshop Format • Introduction: Sustaining and Embedding Innovations: A Good Practice Guide (http: //sustainembed. pbworks. com) • Subgroups: 1 • Rebecca Galley (OU - OULDI) • Maria Papaefthimiou (Reading - OULDI) • Paul Bartholomew (Birmingham City - T-SPARC ) 2 • Plenary: • Mark Russell (Hertfordshire – ESCAPE) • Catherine O’Donnell (Ulster – Viewpoints) • Marion Manton (Oxford – CASCADE ) Feedback on “enablers” and “barriers” for achieving institutional enhancement
Sustaining and Embedding Innovations: A Good Practice Guide • Initially developed as an output from JISC programmes: • Transforming Curriculum Delivery through Technology • Institutional Approaches to Curriculum Design • Aims to support innovation projects in: • ensuring benefits/outputs can be sustained beyond the life of the project • embedding benefits/outputs into institutional and/or sector practice • contributing towards institutional enhancement http: //sustainembed. pbworks. com
Rationale for the Guide Rational for the Guide • A changing economic and funding climate • A need to better balance: – institutions experiencing innovation projects – learning from others – making better use of sector resources • Increasing focus at all levels on: – – return on investment institutional enhancement cost/benefits collaboration/sharing
PROJECT/PILOT INSTITUTION SECTOR(S) Embedding Cascading Barriers Enablers • Resistance to innovation • Lack of appreciation of future educational scenarios • Innovators don’t make good “embedders” • Structures, processes & resources for embedding • Mind-sets: innovation projects have an end-date! • Lack of project sustaining/embedding plan • Changing people & culture • Simple change approaches e. g. student mentors • Visioning and scenario planning • Communications & stakeholder engagement • Institutional change management techniques • Internal communities of practice • Influencing organisational change • Continuous improvement approaches • Change agents and champions • Partnership working • Embedding or aligning innovations • Aligning with institutional goals, drivers and needs • Embedding in strategies • Embedding in processes and systems • Focusing on impact and returns on investment • Creating useable tools and resources • “Not invented here” • Insufficient “motivators” & resources • Increasing competition • Open approaches to sustainability • OERs • Open source software • Open standards • Communities • SIGs (Special Interest Groups) - sector driven and practitioner “owned” • Communities of practice • Open development communities • Subject centres • Capacity-building/benefits realisation • Collaboration consortia (OLTF) • Shared services • Commercial/entrepreneurial approaches
Towards institutional enhancement Planning Reflection, review (& benchmarking) Continuous Improvement for Institutional Enhancement Impact evaluation Innovation project(s)
Feedback & discussion forum http: //sustainembed. pbworks. com http: //cloudworks. ac. uk/cloudscape/view/2137
Sub-group format 1 2 Brief Introductions to the projects Discussions on “enablers” and “barriers” for sustainability, embedding and institutional enhancement (40 minutes)
Sub-group Projects 1 OU/Reading – OULDI Our aim is to develop and implement a methodology for learning design composed of tools, practice and other innovation that both builds upon, and contributes to, existing academic and practitioner research. Birmingham City – T-SPARC Technology-Supported Processes for Agile and Responsive Curricula. http: //cloudworks. ac. uk/cloud/view/5514 2 Herts – ESCAPE The ESCAPE project will respond to Institutional and National concerns regarding assessment and feedback. Ulster – Viewpoints is working on a suite of reflective tools for university staff, underpinned by cutting-edge educational theories, to help inspire innovative curriculum design. Oxford - CASCADE The Cascade project aims to use technology to enable the Department for Continuing Education to respond better to the challenges created by the government’s ELQ policy.
Plenary Feedback on enablers and barriers for achieving institutional enhancement
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