The OpenEducation

Challenge Incubator

Programme

Yishay Mor, July 2013

http://goo.gl/mSRvY4

The Challenge

Programme aims

Ensure the highest quality of the proposed projects in terms of educational excellence, technical fit, business viability and team reliability.

Enable the teams to present their project in the most effective, appealing, informative and exciting manner to potential investors.

Participants will..

Work in effective and agile teams.

Engage in learning design

Develop a viable business plan

Identify appropriate technology

prototype the system they envision.

Present their innovation in its best form

Design principles Different paths, same destination.

Individual together.

Seamless, blended and situated.

Learning by doing: active, project based, exploratory.

Assessment: self, peer, mentor, tutor.

Support on-demand.

Pattern: Villa Rotunda Each team has its own private space and

individual learning path

All share a common “hall”, where they share their learning with each other and with tutors and mentors.

All have windows through which they interact with the world.

The incubator programme as a whole has several facades, through with it showcases participants’ work to the world.

Pattern: “flight squadron”

Brief before mission

Perform missions in small teams

Debrief after mission

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.

Residentials: where we’ve been, where are we going next Share experiences from previous

phase

Explore new theme

Plan individual work for next phase

“Engage in Learning Design” investigate the context of their innovation

define the challenge they wish to address

consult relevant literature

review existing practices

conceptualise, prototype & evaluate a solution

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 gameDinner

Showcase event: invite the local edu-startup community to see and react

In between..

Team tasks

(Open?) Webinars

“Morning coffee”

Online workspace - continuous feedback

Self, peer, mentors, tutors

The Learning Design Studio

http://www.yishaymor.org/lds