Vana Kamtsiou, BRUNEL(vana.kamtsiou@brunel.ac.uk

(Fabio Nascimbeni, MENON)

8th EDEN Research Workshop (EDENRW8)27-28 October 2014, Oxford

Speeding up Adoption of e-Learning Innovation in Europe: Mission Impossible? The HoTEL project

http://hotel-project.eu/

Origins of TEL innovations models: need for a more integrative approach

Technology and Industry-led: availability of a new technology, not specifically designed for learning, is used for educational or informal learning applications.

Research-led : learning theories find application in experimental learning settings that are created and monitored to check learning effectiveness, usability and other key features.

Practice-led: bottom up innovation emerging from individuals or communities of teachers and learners who find original ways of using technology to materialise new ideas about learning and teaching and are able to demonstrate their effectiveness in new contexts of use;

Policy-led innovation: materialised by the many national programmes launched since the 80s to diffuse ICT and its use in classrooms.

TEL Innovation drivers

Holistic approachAn integration is missing

Different paradigm from: from research to prototypes to massive exploitation

Why adoption, scale up and mainstream of TEL innovations is so difficult?

Systemic perspective: TEL is a diverse and multi-level domain. – Many players, who have to collaborate in order to align their

contributions and develop holistic solutions.– ‘Customers’ involve multiple decision makers working in different

cultures, operational contexts and jurisdictions. – Lack of linkages and fragmentation between innovation actors and other

actors in the innovation eco-system. Understand systemic interfaces between technological, socio-economic, educational & business drivers.

Technology perspective: Fast technological changes, shorter technology life cycles, innovation at the interface of technologies.

Economic & Policy Perspectives: Turbulence in the economy is pressing for short term policy development; policy foresight tends to be very short sighted with emphasis on the present demands, quick wins, deep cuts in R&D funding; shift from market driven to technology driven applications, which lack assumptions concerning future needs or strategic long term visions.

‘one- size-fits-all’ , a standard “policy recipe” and 'one-off' models of innovation do not work in education IPTS Report (Kampylis, et al., 2013),

A contextualised organic dynamic process is needed

A process is need that allows for continuous change and adaptations in order to address:– on one side the continuously shifting requirements of society – and on the other the fast technological developments of our times.

The focus is on desirable systemic change by which we mean changes in business (and learning organizations), learning processes and practices, as well as technological (software, and tools and infrastructure) and social (e.g. role of learning in developing European citizens, their employability, and personal fulfilment). Align technological and societal and policy perspectives in a visionary framework.

An integration of foresight, roadmapping and change management approaches is needed in order to integrate and optimise industry, policy and research roadmaps with actual implementations and provide context-sensitivity for the innovations.

TEL Systemic Innovations

Systemically interconnected TEL innovation typesAdapted from Jari Kaivo, 2011

Systemic changes in one of these innovation types, can introduce changes or innovations in the other 3 types as well.

Not linear, single rooted, or independent

butSystemic, several

converging technologies, often competing, complex

interactions of many players, holistic solutions

Need for Supply –demand integration

What needs to change in coordinated fashion

Functional logic of the strategic innovation framework

Key element driving the innovation

Social Business

Learning practicesInnovations

Technological innovation framework

Subsystems

Related Business innovations, learning and social changes

HoTEL support innovation model

Core concept in the support model is:

“multi-stakeholder ecosystem” –with different stakeholders representatives according to the nature of the innovation proposed

3 Exploratorium labs. HEIs, Workplace, Professional networks with real users.

TEL innovations are tested either: a) practical, on the ground, with real users and in a real context-setting; or b) theoretical, with a deep-thinking test bench by experts and qualified users

Context-sensitivity of the analysis and support action proposed, in order to distinguish transferable from non-transferable success factors, according to a well-defined set of criteria.

How will the HOTEL innovation support model work in practice

ODS support Innovation Model: 3 phases of activity

http://opendiscoveryspace.eu

Visionary Workshops Delphi studySelection of eMature schools as champions

160 schools 2000 teachers

Through the ODS platform and ODS website

A roadmap and scenarios for moving from incubation to accelaration