Disruptive Innovation – The Ride You’re On
Whether you choose to acknowledge it or not, your organization is riding the waves of change. You have a choice to make. Are you going to go along for the ride and respond reactively to change, or are you going to take charge and be in the driver’s seat, utilizing the change as an opportunity to enhance your institution’s learning environment?
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:
Apply the principles of disruptive innovation.
Use technological innovation and change as a proactive catalyst enhance your learning environment.
Video Resources
The Ride You’re on
https://youtu.be/fUej3I2HXeE
Readings
Please read one of the following titles that best aligns with your situation or area of interest:
Horn’s Blended Learning (entire book)
Higher Education – http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/labor/report/2011/02/08/9034/disruptingcollege/
Business – Christensen’s Innovator’s Dilemma (entire book).
Discussion Tips & Grading
Discussion grading is based on the quality and level of collaboration with your classmates. We monitor the discussion forums on a weekly basis to get a sense of the quality of your contributions. We check to see if you are really entering into discussions with your classmates or are you just giving limited or “token” contributions. What is “quality” participation? In the words of Supreme Court Justice Stewart ““I know it when I see it”. There will always be a certain amount of subjectivity when we are considering the quality of discussions and dialogue. To help alleviate this subjectivity somewhat consider the following points. We will take into account whether or not you are responding to or entering into a dialogue with your classmates who may have taken the time to respond to your posts or comments. We will be looking to see if you are you trying to be helpful and share insights. We will also be looking see if you are asking questions that lead to deeper discussions and deeper learning. The right answers are often not nearly as important as the right questions.
At the end of the term we run a statistical analysis to see the distribution of the discussions. We then assign a grade based on the level and quality of participation. To get a higher grade you need to collaborate at a high level with more people. The more helpful you are the better you will do.
We don’t use a discussion checklist because research reveals that when we use this type of a checklist or rubric in online discussions students will simply follow the formula (i.e. make one post and respond to two others or whatever the formula dictates) and do not really enter into authentic collaboration. Collaboration is very important in digital learning and you don’t get effective collaboration using a discussion checklist. How much collaboration is enough—enough to be authentic and helpful.
Disruptive Innovation Discussions
In this assignment, you to consider your reading and are to view the following videos then participate in a discussion with your colleagues. This discussion will give you the opportunity to get a better understanding of Disruptive Innovation and how it applies to education and will enable you to verify the ideas that you plan to use in your first written assignment.
Part 6 — Technology as a Disruptive Force in Education
Disrupting Class – Part 3: Disruptive Innovation in Education
Disrupting Class – Part 4: Blended Learning
Instructions
Participate in a class discussion in which you begin by addressing the following issues/questions.
- What is disruptive innovation and why is it so important?
- How can innovation be a catalyst for change in education or your industry and organization?
- If blended learning is not about the technology but about the learning then why do we overemphasize the technology aspect of this change?
- What models of blended learning can you see working in your organization?
- What are some opportunities for innovation in your organization? How will this impact your innovation proposal?
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.
The Need for Change Discussions
In Bring on the learning revolution! Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for a revolution to our educational systems. Robinson makes the argument that we need to use the advances in the Internet and technology to create a model of education that is organic and that is personalized to a learners unique talents and needs. This discussion will give you the opportunity to get a better understanding of why change is so important and to enable you to verify the ideas that you plan to use in your your first written assignment.
Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution!
Instructions
Participate in a group discussion, which you begin by addressing the following issues/questions.
- Do you agree or disagree with Robinson’s argument?
- What does this say about our learning environments?
- What can we do to change our educational system?
- What technologies exist today that personalize your computing and learning experiences (hint: Amazon…)?
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.
The Effect of Disruptive Innovation in My Organization
Assignment Value: 75 points
In this assignment, you are to articulate your understanding of how a disruptive innovation can be used to impact and change your organization. As you develop your argument for your innovation proposal take into account the ideas that you have explored in the literature, media and discussions.
Instructions
Create/develop an argument for change in your organization that you plan to implement–this argument for change will be referred to as your innovation proposal. Consider all the points that you discussed with your colleagues in the two Collaborative Discussions when you are making your innovation proposal. Your innovation proposal will provide the foundational background for the literature review, the implementation outline, the promotional video and the final presentation of your innovation plan that you will be developing in the rest of this course.
The innovation proposal can be submitted in any format but keep in mind that it will also be used in your ePortfolio as a part of the final blog post where you present your final plan that you will share with your organization.
Two Step Submission
An accurate understanding of how innovation can be used as a catalyst for change in your organization is so fundamental to your innovation proposal and to all other assignments within this course that we need to confirm that you are on the right track and have a solid foundation for which to base the rest of your course work. Therefore, we will be using the following two step submission process:
Step 1
You will submit your completed proposal by 11:59 PM CST on the first Sunday of the course. This assignment will be reviewed but not graded and feedback will be provided to confirm that you are on the right track. You must submit this assignment directly via email to your instructor.
Step 2
You will then take into account your literature review in week two and case study examinations in week three to the help revise and update your ideas and then submit a final version of your innovation proposal by 11:59 PM CST on the Friday night of Week 3. This submission will be graded and must follow the following submission details.
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 evidence of learning for this assignment may take the form of a Google document, video, presentation ( SlideShare), blog post or other digital format, to submit the assignment URL you are required to download and use the provided assignment document template Assignment1-EDLD5305-Submission.docx Click for more options
Download the document template (above)
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.
If your evidence of learning does take the form of a Word 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, presentation (SlideShare), video, infographic, blog post or any 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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