Picking Your Line – Where Does The Data Suggest We Need To Go
Determining what the literature, research, and data point to as the next disruptive innovation will enable you to proactively leverage the disruptive innovation rather than reactively respond to its effects.
Course Outcome/Goal
Learners will identify technology innovations and embrace them as opportunities rather than challenges, recognizing that they can proactively use those changes as catalysts to enhance their organizations.
Module Outcome/Goal
After completing this module, you should be able to identify, analyze, and evaluate current and potential examples of disruptive innovations.
Introduction Video
Picking Your Line
Readings
Required Readings
2017 – 2012 Horizon Reports – view from https://www.nmc.org/nmc-horizon/ Select the report type appropriate to your interests or organization.
Meeker’s 2018 Internet Trends Report
Meeker’s 2017 Internet Trends Report
Meeker’s 2016 Internet Trends Report
Meeker’s 2015 Internet Trends Report
Meeker’s 2014 Internet Trends Report
The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology 2017 & 2017 Student and Faculty Technology Research Studies Please note that this is the main ECAR 2017 Studies archive where you will find the Undergraduate Students and Information Technology studies, Faculty studies, Infographic and much more.
2016 Students and Technology Research Study
The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2015
The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2014
The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2013
The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2012
The list of readings for this module was set up to be purposely overwhelming because you need to be aware of just how much information is available and, more importantly, you need to learn to glean what is valuable and what is not. If you have been following educational technology literature for many years, then you will not be overwhelmed with all this reading, because you will have read each of the reports when they were published. If you are new to the discipline, then you have a bit of catching up to do.
Ideally, you do want to read all the material, but given the time constraints of this course and the fact that you all have lives, I suggest that you look to your class colleagues to share the load of reading and devise a plan to distribute the reading load and to at least look at the following in detail.
At minimum, read the most recent years of the Horizon Report, and then read the Executive summaries, Technologies to Watch, Critical Challenges and Significant Trends sections of the earlier reports. Look for patterns and also critically assess how accurate the earlier reports have been. Compare the predictions and claims of the Horizon Reports with that data in the Internet Trends Report (at minimum, use the report summary). Read the most recent ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, and review the Key Findings of the previous two studies to identify patterns that will point to disruptive innovations and compare to the Horizon and Meeker reports.
Introducing Your ePortfolio/Blog Site
This is an opportunity for you to share your blog URL with the rest of the class.
Instructions
Copy and paste your blog URL in the subject box of a reply thread at the bottom of this page.
Visit at least 3-5 of your classmates sites. Post a reaction to any of the items that are relevant to this course and which you find interesting.
Progressive Education Discussions
The call for change or reform in education is not new. View the following video, which presents a positive view of progressive education, although it begins with a parent complaining that children are not learning the fundamentals.
Progressive Education in the 1940s
Review the blog post People who like this stuff… like this stuff (https://www.harapnuik.org/?p=5198) and consider why people are resistant to change and what can be done about this resistance.
Instructions
Participate in a class discussion in which you begin by addressing the following issues/questions.
If you were to close your eyes and simply listen to the language, could you recognize some of the same verbiage used today?
As much as things change, they also seem to stay the same.
Why haven’t we seen more significant change in education?
Consider the People who like this stuff… post. Does it apply to your organization?
Please remember the list of questions are for your benefit and are intended to help you focus your thinking. We are not asking nor expect you to answer each question in your discussion–rather you should use these questions to help focus on how the insights gained through this discussion will help you to add another component to your innovation plan.
This assignment will be assessed as part of your course participation grade.
Literature Review
Assignment Value: 150 points
The Internet age has brought about an overabundance of literature on almost every subject. The challenge is no longer finding the information but being able to sift through enormous amounts of information and assess what is valuable and what is not. When you are looking for trends it is important to find longitudinal research and reports that help you identify patterns or trends that will reveal which innovations are truly disruptive.
Instructions
From the assigned module readings, compile a literature review that supports your innovation plan and that will help you share what you have learned with your colleagues and community. You will want to have a minimum of 10-12 citations in your literature review so you will need to supplement your readings with a minimum of 5 or more additional articles that point to technologies trends and reference these additional articles in your literature review.
We encourage you to use the traditional document format that can easily be updated and prepared for a potential article submission. The most important aspect of the literature review is to identify who your audience will be and why and how they will use the material. This literature review must be used to help identify innovation opportunities and support the innovation plan and implementation outline that you will develop in this course.
Academic writing is a rule-based process so please refer to and use:
The Literature Review is a well-established form of academic writing so review the following resources from the Purdue Online Writing Lab:
Literature Review definition – https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/13/
Literature Review overview – https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/994/04/
APA Formatting and Styleguide – https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/1/
The following templates can be used to guide your document formatting. Regardless of what template you use you must still refer to the APA guidelines to make sure that you work follows the APA standards.
APA Template doc – APA template doc.docx
Literature Review Template – Literature_Review_Template30564.pdf
The literature review is due on the third Sunday of the course so you have two weeks to complete your work. The most important part of the writing process is editing so make sure you get a different set of eyes (another person) to help you edit your work.
Submission Details:
This assignment is unique to you, your circumstances, and your organization so you need to determine who your audience is, why and how they will use this information, and what impact you are looking to make. Since you own this assignment, and more importantly the ideas within the assignment, you need to choose how you will format and present this information. Refer to Who Owns the Eportfolio – https://www.harapnuik.org/?page_id=6050 for a more detailed explanation of idea ownership.
Even though your assignment may take the form of a Google document, Word or Pages document, blog post or other digital format to submit the assignment URL you will be required to use the provided document template: Assignment2-EDLD5305-Submission.docx Click for more options
Download the document template,
Post the URL into the space at the top of the document template,
Add your name to the document,
Rename the file with your name and assignment identifier
Upload the file to Blackboard by or before the deadline.
If your assignment submission does take the form of a Word or Pages document then you can simply paste the content into the document template and complete the assignment submission as outlined above.
The School of Education is using this submission process in its online courses for two reasons:
We wish to provide you an offline copy of the assignment instructions that you can refer to.
We want to ensure there is a consistent and permanent record of assignment submissions that can efficiently be converted to hard copy.
Formats:
You can use a document, Google doc, Word or Pages doc, blog post or other format to present your ideas to your audience.
Use the APA format to cite your sources.
Use the assignment name, your last name and first initial (assignment name + last name + first initial) to label your assignment submission.
Add to ePortfolio:
Since this assignment is part of the course outcome of identifying technology innovations, embracing them as opportunities rather than challenges, and recognizing that they can proactively be used as catalysts to enhance your learning environment and organization you will also need to add this to your ePortfolio. In the final module you will be required to consolidate all the course assignments into a cohesive section on your ePortfolio, so we recommend that you add this to your ePortfolio as you go along rather than wait until the end.
EDLD 5305 Innovation Plan
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