This document outlines the agenda and process for a workshop aimed at exploring challenges in education and identifying potential innovations. The workshop will: 1) Have participants get to know the key actors in the education domain, understand the forces influencing them, and describe their current practices. 2) Identify tensions or gaps between the forces and intentions of different actors. 3) Explore alternative practices and innovations that could better address stakeholders' concerns, with groups proposing new ideas and getting feedback.

1. 2nd Incubator Residential
Scenarios Workshop
Paris, September 30, 2014

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3. Aims of this workshop
Explore a challenging domain in depth:
● Understand the underlying forces
● Identify the main actors
● Characterise their existing practices
● Consider viable innovations to better
address the concerns of various
stakeholders.

4. The setting
● Work in groups
● use paper /
popplet.com
● Share with
other groups.

5. The Actors
Subject Experts
Familiar with the
context, stakeholders,
needs, barriers
Innovators
Have the will and the
know-how to bring about
change
Facilitators
Manage exchange of
knowledge between
others

6. Agenda
● Identifying the actors
Naming & characterising the main roles / participants / stakeholders.
● Mapping the forces
Describing actors’ intentions, factors that influence them, links between them.
● Describing current practices
how do the actors currently operate to achieve their goals?
● Spotting the gaps
where are the tensions between forces? What intentions are not fulfilled?
● Exploring alternatives
how could existing practices be improved?

7. Step 1: Set the Scene
-
Draw Your Context!
● Use paper & markers /
http://popplet.com / tool of your
choice
● Create a sketch / cartoon /
collage that captures the
essence of your problem domain
(classroom / school / Corporate HR dept.)
Chan Hiu Ching, China
fukuoka.unhabitat.org/gallery/art_2008
10 Minutes

8. Step 2: Name Your Actors
Jo, 42, Female
EdTech
Entrepreneur
Lives in Lyon
3 Kids,
MSc in CS
Bo, 51, Male
Primary
Teacher
Lives in Riems
BA in History,
likes surfing
André, 37,
Male
Local
authority
Head of
Education

9. Step 2: List the Forces
Jo
EdTech
Entrepreneur
Bo
Primary
Teacher
André
Head of
Education
Desires
Assets /
advantages
Desires
Desires
Assets /
advantages
Assets /
advantages
Barrier
s
Barrier
s
Barrier
s

10. Step 2: Maps the Interactions

11. Step 3: Identify a Challenge
● Unfulfilled desire
● Tension between
forces
● Something that can
be done better

12. Step 4: Describe Current
Practices

13. And now..
● Propose new practices, based on your
product / concepts.
● Discuss, Review & Critique these
practices:
o what are the risks & opportunities?
o what are the costs?
o what are the side effects?

14. Step 1: Storyboard
OEC Teams draw a storyboard of a new /
revised practice, which makes use of their
product, to resolve a challenge in the
problem domain.

15. Step 2: Critique
● Subject experts review the storyboards,
note their potentials and challenges,
suggest modifications.

16. Discussion
• What have we learned?
• What surprised us?
• What are the big questions that we take
with us?