Benefits Realisation Workshops Day 1: Next Generations Technologies in Practice – 10 March 2009

Welcome George Roberts Director, Emerge Project Oxford Brookes University

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Educational R&D Outputs or outcomes? Producing artefacts or building capacity? Quantitative or qualitative measures? Easy answers or the deep complexity of institutional change?

Educational R&D

Outputs or outcomes?

Producing artefacts or building capacity?

Quantitative or qualitative measures?

Easy answers or the deep complexity of institutional change?

to support the formation of an "effective and sustainable community of practice” around the Users and Innovation Development Model , using Web2.0 technologies ( def 1 , def 2 ).

to support the formation of an "effective and sustainable community of practice” around the Users and Innovation Development Model , using Web2.0 technologies ( def 1 , def 2 ).

A model of software development Explicitly adapted to community development

The aim of R&D is to bring about change; R&Dhas a transforming effect Rigorous, anti-essentialist, critical foundation as a research method and evaluation methodology. Appreciative inquiry

For individuals and projects: professional development collaboration with others improved project planning and management awareness of the relevance of projects in a wider context Benefits

For individuals and projects:

professional development

collaboration with others

improved project planning and management

awareness of the relevance of projects in a wider context

For institutions to what extent are they comfortable with ceding certain amounts of control to individuals? to what extent are they, as established communities, willing to cede control to new communities? For individuals the principal issue is to what extent do they subordinate their autonomy and self-direction to any community? And, then how much do they subordinate and to which communities? Questions inclusion, exclusion and identity

For institutions

to what extent are they comfortable with ceding certain amounts of control to individuals?

to what extent are they, as established communities, willing to cede control to new communities?

For individuals

the principal issue is to what extent do they subordinate their autonomy and self-direction to any community?

And, then how much do they subordinate and to which communities?

Thank you, all! George Roberts Director, Emerge Project

Programme 10.10 - 10.20 Realising the benefits: embedding and supporting - Paul Bailey 10.20 - 10.50 Plenary: Critical Friends Benefits Realisation - Jill Jameson 10:50 Coffee (sign up for sessions – if not already) 11:10 – 12:30 Showcase Workshops a) The Potential for, and barriers to, using MUVEs in learning and teaching - Dave White and Steven Warburton b) Encouraging staff to use an e-portfolio for their own professional development - Sarah Chesney, Elaine Tan, Paul Chin c) The Manchester Personal Learning Environment- Mark van Harmelen 12:30 Lunch

Programme 13.20 - 14.40 Showcase Workshops a) The Potential for, and barriers to, using MUVEs in learning and teaching - Dave White and Steven Warburton b) Encouraging staff to use an e-portfolio for their own professional development - Sarah Chesney, Elaine Tan, Paul Chin c) The Manchester Personal Learning Environment - Mark van Harmelen 14:40 Coffee 15:00 – 17:00 Open Space Technology sustaining emergent networks from the JISC Users & Innovation Programme - George Roberts

Realising the benefits: embedding and supporting Paul Bailey Benefits Realisation Coordinator Emerge Project

Benefits Realisation “… . validation and transfer to non-native institutional contexts, and building upon of outputs developed by innovation projects in order to embed them in their intended (and other) communities, thereby helping to ensure that they are useful, usable and used by users” .

Benefits Realisation Supporting projects building capacity increasing take-up…