Finalizing your Innovation Project
“I love it when a plan comes together”
— A-Team’s Colonel John “Hannibal” Smith, played by George Peppard
Course Outcome/Goal
Learners will synthesize their knowledge, skills, beliefs, and values gained through their digital learning and leadership experiences and present a comprehensive plan on how they developed into digital learners and leaders that can identify and promote innovation, create significant digital learning environments, and lead organizational change.
Module Outcomes/Goals
Learners will:
- organize and analyze their innovation project by evaluating their learning process, assessing the lessons learned, and applying these insights to how they would lead innovation projects in the future; and
- communicate and promote their innovation plan/project, their analysis, the lessons learned, and how they will plan to complete and promote the project.
Module 3 & 4 Introduction Video
Innovation Project: Collaborative Discussion
Throughout the Digital Learning and Leading (DLL) program you have been working on an innovation project that has provided the context for much of your course work. Consider the Every Day Leadership video by Drew Dudley as you reflect on the impact of your innovation project.
Everyday leadership – Drew Dudley
In this part of your capstone reflection and discussion, we want you to discuss your innovation project and what you have learned. Consider the following questions as starting points for your discussion:
- Reflect on all the work you have done so far on your innovation project.
- Where are you in your innovation project?
- What if anything do you have to complete?
- Analyze and assess the learning process you have undergone by working on your innovation project?
- What worked?
- What could you do better?
- What lessons have you learned?
- How do you plan to promote and communicate your innovation project?
- How would you apply what you have learned to your next innovation project?
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.
Innovation Project Assignment
Assignment Value: 100 points
Throughout the Digital Learning and Leading (DLL) program you have been working on an innovation project that has provided the context for much of your course work.
Instructions
In this part of your capstone, we want you to compile all the parts of your innovation project into a comprehensive section of your site. At MINIMUM, consider the following points and questions as prompts that will help you to finalize and share your innovation project experience:
- Identify and reflect on all the components and work you have done so far on your innovation project.
- Identify where are you in your innovation project? What if anything do you have to complete? By when?
- Analyze, assess and reflect on the learning process you have undergone by working on your innovation project?
- What worked?
- What could you do better?
- What lessons have you learned?
- How do you plan to promote and communicate your innovation project?
- How would you apply what you have learned to your next innovation project?
Organize and present your innovation project and experience as a cohesive section of your ePortfolio. Ensure that you create an organizational and navigational structure that connects all the components and clearly demonstrates that all the pieces fit into a bigger strategy or approach.
Please remember – This assignment is unique to you, your circumstances, and your organization so you need to keep in mind who your audience is, why and how they will use this information, and what impact you are looking to make.
Submission Details:
To submit the assignment URL you will be required to use the provided document template: Assignment 2-EDLD5315-Submission.docx
- Download the document template,
- Past 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.
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:
- 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 document.
