1. Vana Kamtsiou, BRUNEL
(vana.kamtsiou@brunel.ac.uk
e-Learning micro-innovation matters!
International seminar, 25-26 March 2014, CoR Brussels
First learning café:
Barriers to scalability and mainstreaming
Input from HoTEL project
http://hotel-project.eu/

2. The HoTEL Innovation Support Model?
 Scope: Model that will help innovators to come
• From point A (idea, research, early prototype, small
scale innovative practice)
• to point B (innovation, advanced prototype, exploitable
product, large scale innovative practice)
‒ making a significant progress, faster and in a consistent
way
‒ taking a holistic approach (e.g. technical, theoretical,
educational, relational, social, business, etc.)
─Multi-stakeholder ecosystem: 3 Exploratorium labs.
Actual innovations and practical, on the ground, with real users
and in a real context-setting; HEIs, Workplace, Professional net.
─3 strands: emerging technologies (WP1), emerging practices
(WP2), bottom-up innovations (WP3).

3. Origins of TEL innovations models:
need for a more integrative approach
 Technology and Industry-led, in which the
availability of a new technology, normally not
specifically designed for learning, finds a number of
educational or informal learning applications.
 Research-led, in which learning theories search and
find application in experimental learning settings
that are created and monitored to check learning
effectiveness, usability and other key features.
 Practice-led, spontaneous bottom up innovation
emerging from individuals or communities of
teachers and learners that find original ways of using
technology to materialise new ideas about learning
and teaching and are able to demonstrate their
effectiveness in new contexts of use;
 Policy-led innovation, materialised by the many
national programmes launched since the 80s to
diffuse ICT and its use in classrooms.
Technology
PracticeTheory
TEL Innovation drivers
Holistic approach

4. HoTEL innovation ecosystems

5. Difficulty of adoption and scale:
TEL Systemic Innovations
Systemically interconnected TEL innovation types
Adapted from Jari Kaivo, 2011
Systemic changes in one of
these innovation types, can
introduce changes or
innovations in the other 3 types
as well.
Not linear, single rooted, or
independent
but
Systemic, several
converging technologies,
often competing, complex
interactions of many
players, holistic solutions
Need for
Supply –demand integration

6. What needs to change in coordinated fashion
Functional logic of the strategic
innovation framework
Key element driving the innovation
Social
Business
Learning practices
Innovations
Technological innovation framework
Subsystems

7. Related Business innovations, learning and social changes

8. Technology intelligence to assess technology
gaps and plan for adoption
Technology forecasting : technologies possible evolution from
existing trends. Assess technology readiness and ability to add
value in existing solutions. (focus on incremental innovations)
Technology Foresight: The identification of emerging technologies
and the possible commercialization of such technologies in TEL.
(focus on disruptive innovations)
Technology assessment: Identification of risks, opportunities and
threats related to such developments and the impacts of these
technologies at some time in the future.
A plan for adoption of the foreseen innovations must be
developed, which would include all the relevant actors involved in
the innovations functional logic for implementation. (systemic)

9. Activities involved
Technology forecasting: incremental innovations
 identify critical requirements and “products” to be developed (added value).
 identify major technology areas and technology drivers.
 identify technology alternatives and their possible evolution based on strong trends,
historical data, hype curves and technology life cycles or S-Curves.
Technology Foresight: disruptive innovations
 What are the possible innovation opportunities stemming from the emerging
technologies?
 What will be their potential for commercialization, in terms of desired applications,
products or services?
 Which products, technologies, practices or even markets will be replacing?
 What will be the resistance from the current players in the market?
 What it means in terms of the adoption of the new technologies?
 PESTLE drivers, scenarios development, Delphi studies, bibliometrics .
Technology assessment:
Whether we have to deal with incremental, disruptive innovations, or systemic TEL
innovations, a technology assessment in terms of technology readiness to deliver the
innovation opportunities needs to be performed. Most common methods include surveys
in form of interviews with experts in both technologies (ICT) and business, gap/SWOT
analysis,