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Innovation, Learning, and Learning Spaces

Explore the intersection of innovation, learning, and learning spaces, understanding knowledge construction, expertise, and the challenges of disruptive innovation. Learn about diffusion processes, managing disruptive technologies, and embracing failure as part of the learning process.

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Innovation, Learning, and Learning Spaces

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  1. Innovation, Learning, and Learning Spaces ELI web seminar October 2008 Malcolm Brown, Dartmouth College

  2. “If I’d have asked my customers what they wanted, they would have told me ‘A faster horse.’ ” attributed to Henry Ford

  3. Learning

  4. QuickReview http://www.nap.edu/books/0309070368/html/

  5. Findings • Knowledge is constructed • Expertise / competency = • factual matrix or manifold • conceptually organized • retrieval and application

  6. Expertise: range and limits where are the knights? where are the rooks?

  7. Findings • Knowledge is constructed • Expertise / competency = • factual matrix or manifold • conceptually organized • retrieval and application • Student control of learning

  8. Learning Spaces

  9. Educause Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 1, 2003

  10. Change has happened

  11. Dramatic shifts

  12. What got us here?

  13. How did we get here? We’ve innovated

  14. Innovation seems like a Big Deal

  15. It seems to be everywhere

  16. Innovation seems empowering

  17. Our LS works seems to be innovative

  18. Apollo 13

  19. a square peg in a round hole… rapidly

  20. It feels like innovation No formula Adoption to rapidly changing circumstances Working with teams Often handed odds & ends Funding can be uncertain New ideas not always received well

  21. But is it innovation? What does it “look” like? Feel like? How does it work? How can we be better at it? What are all the moving parts?

  22. we 10

  23. 1Innovation = Epiphany not!

  24. Version 2: Innovation = Idea

  25. “The best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas.” Linus Pauling

  26. Berkun, p. 9

  27. Implementation “The elaboration of idea into function… [is] ‘the one that takes up the most time and involves the hardest work.’ ” Berkun, Myths of Innovation, p. 13

  28. Also… Innovation ≠ Serendipity Percy Spencer (1896–1970)

  29. The microwave

  30. Innovation Epiphany ≠ = + lots of hard work, trial and error, research, etc. etc. etc. etc.

  31. Thought “Every innovation is difficult.” Christensen, Innovator’s Dilemma, p. 154

  32. 2Understand the diffusion process

  33. What influences diffusion following Rogers, Diffusion of Innovations Relative advantage Compatibility Ease of use Trialability Observability

  34. Analyzing diffusion’s prospects Example 1 very high relative advantage compatibility somewhat low

  35. Analyzing diffusion’s prospects Example 2 modest relative advantage ease of use very low

  36. Analyzing diffusion’s prospects Example 3 very high relative advantage very high compatibility ease of use OK

  37. Analyzing diffusion’s prospects Example 4 moderate/high relative advantage somewhat low compatibility trialability low

  38. 3Understand the challenges of disruptive innovation

  39. Thought “If, at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.” Albert Einstein

  40. “I can’t waste my time on this stuff.” Disney exec on Pixar, c. 1987 (NYT review)

  41. www.wired.com/cars/futuretransport/magazine/16-01/ff_100mpg “…we just cannot divert ourselves from the business at hand.” — GM vice chair

  42. “Search doesn’t matter. Portals do.” Yahoo execs, 1998

  43. Sustaining vs. disruptive Sustaining innovation Disruptive innovation Incremental improvement Established paradigm Valued by current customers Predictable Underperform New paradigm “I didn’t ask for this” Unpredictable

  44. Disruption is hard following Christensen, Innovator’s Dilemma Limited market capacity for disruption Disruptive tech won’t fit Our orgs our less flexible than we want to believe Failure and iterative learning are keys Reluctance to invest in disruption

  45. Managing for disruption following Christensen, Innovator’s Dilemma, p. 113–114 Align disruptive tech with the right customers so there’s tangible demand Align to small, independent units for small growth Fail early and inexpensively Search for markets not technological breakthroughs

  46. 4Fear not failure

  47. Thought “If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.” Alfred Bernhard Nobel

  48. http://www.wd40.com/about-us/history/

  49. 5Learn to see and observe

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