This document discusses educational innovation efforts at UW-Madison. Over 450 faculty and staff attended incubator sessions to discuss ideas for online/hybrid learning. Peer-to-peer workshops generated new revenue sources and curriculum redesigns. The goals for year two include transforming curriculum, expanding blended/online learning, and increasing degree completion. Managing change requires explaining purposes, envisioning outcomes, planning, and giving people roles. The Wisconsin Idea of extending learning opportunities will guide these innovation efforts.

2. Educational Innovation:
How can we use our leadership
skills, grounded in the WI Idea, to
support online and hybrid learning
experiences?
The UW-Madison Women and Leadership Symposium
2012
Maury Cotter, Jeanne Blochwitz, and Linda Jorn
June 28, 2012

3. Today’s Goals
Update you on University of Wisconsin- Madison Educational
Innovation (EI) efforts (http://edinnovation.wisc.edu/)
Discuss how innovation (sustainable and disruptive) impacts
and bridges peoples’ reaction to change
Discuss what we can learn from the WI Idea and apply to
today’s EI efforts
State one to three actions you will take this summer to support
campus EI efforts

4. A Strategic Framework for Advancing our Vision:
“A Model Public University”

6. Defining Educational Innovation
Improve capacities and
generate new resources
to enhance student
learning and research
excellence.
Student Learning
Capacities
New
Revenue
Research Excellence

7. Incubating Ideas
• Incubator Sessions: Over 450 faculty and staff
attended a dozen incubators
• Peer-to-Peer Workshops: new revenue (including
toolkits), curriculum redesign, blended learning
• Leadership and governance groups
• Showcase: 12 posters, keynote, 6 flash talks, video
http://quality.wisc.edu/445.htm
• Town Hall for Information Technology
• Teaching and Learning Symposium

8. Gearing Up for Year Two
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Transform curriculum
Blended/online learning
Professional Masters and Certificates
Summer courses
Degree completion

10. UW-Madison Information Technology
Strategic Planning Guiding Principles
Innovation
Innovators will have the capacity to innovate at the “edge”
and explore new ways of better scaling high quality teaching
and learning modes or tools/technologies.

11. Innovation
An innovation is an idea, practice, or
object that is perceived as new by
an individual or other unit of
adoption.
Everett Rogers. Diffusion of Innovations. Fifth Edition.
2003

12. Innovation ≠

13. Key Point
Innovation is a
process,
not an event

14. Types of innovation
Christensen, Clayton M.2000. The Innovator’s Dilemma. HarperBusiness. New York, NY.
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15. Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change
Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change. William Bridges, 2003.

17. Current
educational
paradigm
Sustaining
innovation
Disruptive
innovation
New paradigm
Two Loops: How Systems Change
Deborah Frieze

18. Navigating change
Explain the purpose
Paint a picture of the outcomes
Identify a planning process
Provide people with a role – their part
Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change. William Bridges, 2003.

19. The Wisconsin Idea
Gwen Drury and T&L Symposium Attendees, May 23, 2012

20. Carousel Activity
1. What are some of the most innovative online or hybrid
teaching or learning processes, practices, tools, or ideas you
have seen or experienced? Are they sustainable or disruptive?
2. How can we leverage the culture of the Wisconsin Idea to
extend learning opportunities to new learners and
communities? Who are our new learners?
3. What actions will you take this summer to support campus
Educational Innovation efforts?
4. Describe your units readiness for change related to EI
efforts around online and hybrid learning environments.

21. Questions About Educational Innovation?
Contact….
• Aaron M. Brower, Vice Provost for Teaching & Learning
• Maury Cotter, Director, Office of Quality Improvement
• Jeffrey S. Russell. Vice Provost for Lifelong Learning and
Dean UW-Madison Continuing Studies
• Mo Bischof, Assistant Vice Provost, Office of the Provost
• Bruce Maas, Vice Provost for Information Technology and
Chief Information Officer
• Linda Jorn, Director, Academic Technology, Division of
Information Technology

22. Resources
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Berkun, Scott. 2007. The Myths of Innovation. O’Reilly Media, Inc. Sebastopol,
CA.
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Bridges, William. 2003. Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change.
Perseus Books Groups. Philadelphia, PA.
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Christensen, Clayton M. 2000. The Innovator’s Dilemma. HarperBusiness.
New York, NY.
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Christensen, Clayton M. and Eyring, Henry J. 2011.The Innovative University:
Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out. Jossey-Bass. San
Francisco, CA.
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Kelley, Tom with Littman, Jonathan. 2001. The Art of Innovation: Lessons in
Creativity from IDEO, America’s Leading Design Firm. Doubleday. New York,
NY.
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Verganti, Roberto. 2009. Design-Driven Innovation: Changing the Rules of
Competition by Radically Innovating What Things Mean. Harvard Business
Press. Boston, MA.

23. Thank You!
Questions?

24. Strategic innovation

25. A Strategic Framework for Advancing our Vision:
“A Model Public University”

28. Upcoming Events
• Distance Education conference - Aug 8-10
• Teaching & Learning Excellence https://tle.wisc.edu/resources
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Educational Innovation http://edinnovation.wisc.edu/