DARE to Innovate:

Innovation as a Foundational Competency

Jamie JusticeSystem Director for Professional Development and InnovationKentucky Community and Technical College System

Emergence of a New Learning Climate

Technology

Engagement/Expectations

Emerging Occupations

Innovation

Access Points

Content Design

Budgets

New Opinions on Higher Ed

• Asia Challenges U.S. Innovation Leadership, New Report Showshttp://leadenergy.org/2010/01/asia-challenges-usa-leadership/A major report released last week by the National Science Board concludes that U.S. global leadership in science and technology is declining as foreign nations – especially China and other Asian countries – rapidly develop their national innovation systems.

• The World’s Leading Nations for Innovation and Technologyhttp://www.theatlanticcities.com/technology/2011/10/worlds-leading-nations-innovation-and-technology/224/

Seemingly everywhere you look, one or another pundit is predicting the imminent decline of the United States and the end of the American Century. Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum’s That Used to Be Us paints a picture of an economically emergent China that is catching up to us on every front where it hasn’t already surpassed us.

• Innovation and Stem Educationhttps://www.bebr.ufl.edu/articles/innovation-and-stem-educationThe United States was once the world leader by most measures, particularly in the development and use of information and communications technologies which are so central to modern economies. But recent indicators suggest that its status as an innovation leader is no longer assured.

Innovation in the Headlines

• The digital natives really know technology• Creativity cannot be taught• Necessity drives all innovation• Everyone is Innovative • Innovation is a Technical Skill• Any New Approach is Innovation

Assumptions about Innovation

Exactly What is Innovation ?

How do YOU define Innovation?

Exactly What is Innovation ?

• Webster's Definition of INNOVATION1: the introduction of something new 2: a new idea, method, or device : in·no·va·tion·al adjective

Pasted from <http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/innovation>

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?

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 is Your Innovation Vision?

Law of Conservation of InnovationThe total amount of innovation is a constant resource that is available within all individuals and in an organization but it can only be changed between two states.

– Potential innovation emerges to a state of kinetic innovation.

– Necessity changes potential innovation into kinetic innovation or the organization fails or never achieves its full potential.

– Complacency changes kinetic innovation back into a state of potential innovation until the next need emerges.

Innovation as an Energy Source

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

Innovation and Change Management

Connected Innovation

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.

 

Approach

• Envisioneer: That unique type of innovator who can create a new innovation, manage the change and projects associated with the new innovation and who one who fully understands how innovation fits into an overall system perspective.

Envisioneering a New Approach

• Envisioneer Skill Sets–Change Management– Innovation and Problem Solving–Project Management –Systems Thinking–Technology Skills

Envisioneering Skill Sets

• New Learning Environments• Revolutionary Online Education• Jumping the Technology Gap• New Devices and Interactive

Technology• Augmented Reality• 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!Source: U.S. Air Force Innovation Initiative, 1985

An approach to Innovation

Creativity and Enhancement

– Virtual Labs for Online Learning

– Massive Open Online Courses

– New Technology Adaptation

– Emergent Learning Opportunities

– Disassociated Reinforcement

Strategies

INNOVATION: JUMPING THE TECHNOLOGY GAP

Innovation: More than Technology

Respond to Emerging Occupations Improve Student EngagementEnhance 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:

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

Dare to Innovate

D - DefineA - ArticulateR - RefineE - Elaborate

Dare to Innovate: Define

Define the Challenge: –Develop Awareness and Desire –Engage Stakeholders– Identify the Problem/Challenge–Define your Goal–Set a Vision

Dare to Innovate : Articulate

Articulate the Vision–Create your message– Identify Your Team/stakeholders–Apply your Knowledge–Generate Big IDEAS!!!!!!!!–Withhold Judgment

Principles for Idea Creation: The Effect

• Expectations: Positive Outlook

• Fluency: Vast number of Ideas

• Flexibility: Variety of Ideas

• Engagement: Involving Stakeholders

• Capture: Record and Manage Ideas

• Technique: Who, How, What

The EFFECT Model

Dare to Innovate: Refine

Refine Your Ideas • Employ and Engage Existing

Knowledge and Abilities• Grow, Merge, Adjust, Change Ideas• Begin Decision Making Process• Re-Engage Stakeholders• Narrow your Selection

Dare to Innovate: Elaborate

Elaborate –Select your Approach, Gather

Provisions–Expand Knowledge/Abilities of

your Team–Reinforce your Vision–Critical Decision–Begin Your Ascent

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