The document summarizes the OpenEducation Challenge Incubator Programme, which aims to support teams in developing high-quality educational projects. The programme helps participants work in teams to design learning experiences, develop business plans, prototype systems, and present their innovations. It uses workshop and residential formats for collaboration, feedback, and planning next steps. Teams have private workspaces but share learning through common areas and presentations, with guidance from mentors and tutors throughout the process.

1. The OpenEducation
Challenge Incubator
Programme
Yishay Mor, July 2013

2. http://goo.gl/mSRvY4

3. The Challenge

4. Programme aims
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Ensure the highest quality of the proposed projects
in terms of educational excellence, technical fit,
business viability and team reliability.
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Enable the teams to present their project in the
most effective, appealing, informative and exciting
manner to potential investors.

5. Participants will..
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Work in effective and agile teams.
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Engage in learning design
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Develop a viable business plan
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Identify appropriate technology
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prototype the system they envision.
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Present their innovation in its best form

6. Design principles
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Different paths, same destination.
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Individual together.
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Seamless, blended and situated.
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Learning by doing: active, project based, exploratory.
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Assessment: self, peer, mentor, tutor.
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Support on-demand.

7. Pattern: Villa Rotunda
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Each team has its own private space and individual
learning path
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All share a common “hall”, where they share their
learning with each other and with tutors and
mentors.
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All have windows through which they interact with
the world.
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The incubator programme as a whole has several
facades, through with it showcases participants’
work to the world.

8. Pattern: “flight squadron”
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Brief before
mission
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Perform missions
in small teams
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Debrief after
mission

9. The plan
Part II: Learning Design Studio
Part III: Blueprint for Success draft a business plan
Part IV: Demo or Die create a prototype of the
innovation, test it with real users.
Part V: Showtime! Bring it all together and get ready to
present.

10. Residentials: where we’ve been,
where are we going next
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Share experiences from previous phase
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Explore new theme
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Plan individual work for next phase

11. “Engage in Learning Design”
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investigate the context of their innovation
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define the challenge they wish to address
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consult relevant literature
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review existing practices
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conceptualise, prototype & evaluate a solution

12. Residential format (illustration)
Mon Tue Wed Thurs
Morning Debrief: what
have we done
since the last
residential?
Workshop: team
work on themes
from the
masterclass
Planning the next
situated phase: goals
and tasks
Afternoon Thematic
masterclasses
Internal
Presentations (+
mentors)
Evening Arrive, dine,
socialise
Treasure hunt /
location-based
game
Dinner
Showcase event:
invite the local edu-
startup community
to see and react

13. In between..
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Team tasks
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(Open?) Webinars
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“Morning coffee”
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Online workspace - continuous feedback
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Self, peer, mentors, tutors

14. The
Learning
Design
Studio
http://www.yishaymor.org/lds