a New Look at Innovation: Developing Your Innovation Talent

A great thought begins by seeing something differently with a shift of the mind's eye

Albert Einstein

Jamie Justice, KCTCS

Inside the Minds Eye…

EMERGENCE OF A NEW LEARNING CLIMATE

Technology

Engagement

Emerging Occupations

Budgets

Innovation

Learning Gaps

Globalization

INNOVATION: THE NEW FOUNDATIONAL COMPETENCY

Innovation as a new foundational competency

Applications of Technology and

Innovation

Real-time Responses to Workforce Needs

A Means to Jump Technology Gaps

New Approaches to Instruction

New Methods in New Environments

INNOVATION: MORE THAN TECHNOLOGY

Respond to Emerging Occupations

Improve Student Engagement

Enhance Developmental Education

Revise Curriculum

Identify More Efficient Methods

Utilize Technology to Make Learning Personal

Increase Research and Assessment of New Learning Models and Technology

Going Forward, Community Colleges must:

EXACTLY WHAT IS INNOVATION ?

How do YOU define Innovation?

EXACTLY WHAT IS INNOVATION ?

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• Webster's Definition of INNOVATION

1: the introduction of something new

2: a new idea, method, or device : novelty

in·no·va·tion·al adjective

WHAT DRIVES THE NEED FOR INNOVATION?

Global Workplace

Technology

Economy

Education Systems

INNOVATION AND THE FUTURE PAST

• Virtual World Environments

• Revolutionary Online Education

• Jumping the Technology Gap

• New Devices and Interactive Technology

• Multi-modal Interfaces

• Gesture Based Interactions

• Serious Games

HAVING AN INNOVATION STRATEGY:

What is your Innovation Vision?• Innovating from the Past

• Innovating in the Present

• Innovating for the Future

Is it an Innovation or just doing things differently?

ENVISIONEERING

• Focus on Innovation Talent, Capacity and Student Engagement

• Research and Apply New Technology

• A New Approach to Content Creation and Delivery

• New Strategies to Personalize Learning

• New Efficiency Models

• Responsive and Proactive Solutions

Envisioneering

Innovation, Engagement,

Leadership, and

Vision for the future.

 

Envisioneering

Innovation, Engagement,

Leadership, and

Vision for the future.

 

Approach

HOW DO YOU DO INNOVATE?

According to Rolf Smith you:

• Begin by beginning.

• Get to know your colleagues

• Define the Summit – Where do you want to be?

• Determine the Route toward success

• Begin your Expedition:

• Be Proactive, Adaptive and Responsive

• Be Meticulous (journals and blue slips)

Source: 7 Levels of Change, Third Edition, Rolf Smith, 2007, Tapestry Press

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO INNOVATE?

• Innovation War Stories: • What drives Innovation in Education?

• Strategies: • A Deliberate Investment in Developing Innovation Talent and Capacity:

• Create or expand on new uses of technology, instructional innovation, and other best practices currently used by faculty innovators.

• Create an incentive system that provides opportunity for faculty and staff to benefit from new practices and solutions created by faculty either personally or to their respective program area budgets.

• Creation of programs to train and develop innovators to focus on new solutions, applications of proven approaches to change and innovation and new way to manage change.

• What is the most innovative Education event in history?

7 LEVELS OF CHANGE

According to Rolf Smith there are 7 Levels of Change:

• Level 1 – Effectiveness: Doing the right things

• Level 2 – Efficiency: Doing things right

• Level 3 – Improving: Doing things better

• Level 4 – Cutting: Doing away with things

• Level 5 – Copying: Doing things others are doing

• Level 6 – Different: Doing things no one else is doing

• Level 7 – Breakout!: Doing things that can’t be done

Source: 7 Levels of Change, Third Edition, Rolf Smith, 2007, Tapestry Press

• New Learning Environments

• Revolutionary Online Education

• Jumping the Technology Gap

• New Devices and Interactive Technology

• Augmented Reality

• Digital Texts and Devices

• Change Management Strategies

• New Processes and Procedures

INNOVATING THE FUTURE OF LEARNING

REDESIGNING YOUR INNOVATION VISION

• Identify and Engage All Stakeholders

• Technology as a Means

• Foster an Innovation Culture

• Maximize Use of Existing Resources

• Evaluate and Adjust

• Continuous Improvement Models

• Adjust the Innovation Vision

• Appreciative Inquiry

Idea+

Creativity+

Enhancement+

Evaluation+

Implementation

INNOVATION!

Idea+

Creativity+

Enhancement+

Evaluation+

Implementation

INNOVATION!

Source: U.S. Air Force Innovation Initiative, 1985Source: U.S. Air Force Innovation Initiative, 1985

AN APPROACH TO INNOVATION

INNOVATION AND IMMERSION

It all starts with an IDEA

• Research Development Applications

• Visualization Applications

• Learning Objects, Modules and Applications

• Custom Training Applications

• New Programs

Creativity and Enhancement

• Virtual Labs for Online Learning

• Massive Open Online Courses

• New Technology Adaptation

• Emergent Learning Opportunities

• Shortened Learning Cycles

INNOVATION: JUMPING THE TECHNOLOGY GAP

INNOVATION: ONE APPROACH

KCTCS Interactive Digital Center, 2010

INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY :A SAMPLE

Technology as a means to an ends, not the be all or end all!KCTCS Interactive Digital Center, 2010

TRANSFORMATION AND EMERGENCE

• Focus on Innovation and Student Engagement

• New Efficiency Models

• New Strategies to Personalize Learning

• New Approach to Content

• Research and Apply New Technology

• Strategic Plans, Change ManagementInnovation

Continuous Evaluation and Implementation

CHALLENGE FOR FACULTY

• Utilize and Embrace Technology in Different Ways

• Identify/Create Content Solutions

• Identify and Create Content Development Resources

• Integrate and Apply New Learning Environments

Integrate New Student Learning Experiences to Increase Engagement

QUESTIONS

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.” Alvin Toffler

We must use innovative techniques to engage students and foster an environment of life-long learners.

EnvisioneeringInnovation, Engagement, Leadership, and Vision for the future.

“HOT” WASH-UP

1. What new INSIGHTS do you have?

2. What QUESTIONS do you have?

Source: 7 Levels of Change, Third Edition, Rolf Smith, 2007, Tapestry Press

Contact Information

Jamie Justice, System Director of Professional Development and InnovationKentucky Community and Technical College System

jamie.justice@kctcs.edu

859-256-3295

Acknowledgements: A special thank you to my colleagues for their guidance, inspiration and support.

Rolf Smith, http://www.thinking-expedition.com Keith Bird, http://www.skilledwork.org

Cheri Torres, http://www.innvationpartners.comGerri Burton, http://www.newlearningventures.com

Paul Perkins, http://www.amatrol.com