1. Keynote: Anne Miller How to get your innovations adopted - and change the world
    1. Introductory podcast
    2. stages relating to innovation
      1. Resisting
      2. Frozen
      3. Interested
      4. Embedded
    3. specific HE/FE issues
      1. funding
        1. focusing more on embedding and exploiting existing innovations
        2. moving from a "funding" mindset to one of "investment" in innovations
        3. focusing on collaborative innovations/devlopments in the sector in order to share costs and develop community ownership/buy-in.
      2. quality assurance
      3. staff perception/cultural issues
        1. time
        2. ethics
        3. subject discipline
        4. risks
      4. institutional culture/policy/practice
      5. innovators
        1. selling/marketing ideas
    4. Further information
  2. S4: Graham Brown-Martin Is the future mobile?
    1. Pre-conference activities & reading
      1. blog post and abstract
      2. article
    2. disruption
      1. ubiquitous technologies
        1. mobile/handheld devices
          1. tablets/iPad
        2. gaming
        3. outdated office metaphor
      2. casual computing
      3. access
        1. networks/signals
        2. cost
        3. disabilities
        4. shared devices
        5. technical differences across devices
      4. teaching practice
        1. skills
        2. time factor
        3. transforming practice not just using techs
      5. learners practice
        1. formal learning
        2. informal learning/personal
      6. educational institutions
        1. institutional technologies
          1. outdated technologies
          2. technologies devised for old/existing practice
          3. markets/ed tech business
        2. policy and procedure
        3. strategy and vision
        4. openenss to innovation/risk
        5. external drivers
          1. govt. agendas
          2. business/workplaces
          3. resourcing
          4. student as consumer?
    3. Closing questions
      1. 1. How will digital technology otherwise change our views of assessment?
      2. 2. What will students expect as a normal part of any educational interaction? What expectations should we foster?
  3. S5: Gus Cameron, Marion Manton, Phil George Sustaining innovation in curriculum delivery
    1. challenges
      1. stakeholder engagement
        1. Getting stakeholders to engage and prioritise project requests against day to day work
      2. embedding
        1. Establishing how project work will move forward as a service in practice
      3. faculty/departmental culture
        1. entrenched practice
          1. Implementing change in core departmental processes - lots of stakeholders - hard to progress - but once done automatically embedded
        2. resource management
      4. staff perceptions, practice/culture
        1. fear of change
          1. Culture: 'this is the way we have always done it' 'Are you saying I am not doing a good job?'
        2. time and resources
        3. innertia
        4. skills/training needs
      5. institutional systems and procedures
        1. technologies supported
        2. institutional structure
          1. Trying to influence 'delivery' elements of a program when 'design' elements ownership with partner institution
        3. centralised or decentralised approaches
        4. communication mechanisms
      6. institutional strategy and policy
        1. linking strategies
        2. existing strategies
        3. new strategies
      7. external factors
        1. funding
        2. national agendas
        3. subject discipline/professional communities
        4. business/commercial bodies
    2. why innovate curriculum delivery
      1. changing learner demographic
      2. new technologies offering new potential
      3. which changes
        1. Identifying which changes offer real value to stakeholders and can be sustained- across different perceptions of value
      4. using limited resources effectively
    3. good practice
      1. stakeholder & communication plan
      2. staff development activities and support
      3. transforming the curriculum
      4. identifying areas of biggest gain across institution
      5. including and responding to the learners voice
      6. champions at all levels of the institution
      7. linking new approaches with institutional strategy and policy
      8. understanding institutional context and culture
      9. taking time to talk and listen
    4. background context curriculum delivery
  4. S6: Simon Thomson, Andy Beggan Sustaining OER innovation through collaboration and partnership
    1. internal partnerships
      1. barriers
        1. cliques or perceived cliques
        2. busy people with different agendas
        3. trust and engagement difficult to get in large organisations
        4. fear - implications of letting people down
        5. the system is bigger than me...
        6. top down can seem imposed
        7. bottom up may not be supported by management
        8. often working in isolation so not used to partnerships within institution
        9. may have more connection to external partnerships - eg subject discipline
        10. different stakeholders have different needs/drivers
      2. benefits
        1. established communication mechanisms
        2. enthusiasts (keen people on side)
        3. experienced partnership developers
        4. working within accepted Institutional systems and processes
        5. immediate results - surveys/questionnaires
        6. cross institutional dialogue encouraged
        7. new ways of working
    2. external partnerships
      1. barriers
        1. time taken to develop partnerships
        2. need nurturing and patience
        3. formal agreements (including legal)
        4. fallout - don't always work equally
      2. benefits
        1. enhance reputation
        2. sharing best practice
        3. supporting informal learning
        4. reducing development (OERs) time
        5. develop communities and build connections
        6. work with/connect to like-minded people
        7. social networks making it easier
        8. bigger voice
        9. external supporters used internally
        10. recognition and reward
        11. collaborative development of ideas and processes
    3. processes and practices
      1. processes reflect institutional cultures and approaches
      2. stakeholder buy in at all levels needed
      3. changing hearts and minds
      4. links to institution wide and existing processes
      5. clarity of processed and agreement from range of stakeholders
    4. background context - OER Release