FH3: SCALE/SUSTAIN

In the crash and mysterious vanishing our our original site, all the data for FH3 has been lost. This is a reconstruction from what Peter had on his HDD, so it ain’t perfect. Soz.

From the original pitch to ASCILITE 2017

It is easy to make pronouncements about pedagogical, technological or institutional change from the ‘islands’, when the consequences of advocating for and implementing that change are limited to your world, your classroom, your twitter feed.  They are safe spaces, full of friendly faces and welcoming and supportive practices.  But decisions, assertions and opinions all have consequences; for your students, for the worlds they inhabit and for your institutions.  The challenge comes when you need to scale what you speak.  You need to make the future happen for your entire institution. What happens when the VC, the Dean or the Director says ‘we need to this transform the whole institution’? What do you say and do? How do you make sure you say the right things, in the right rooms, with the right people?

 

This provocative and interactive session will put you in that room.  This session will challenge your assumptions and your role in your institution.  It will explain and demonstrate through using the Changehack approach (http://www.futurehappens.org)  how to change the discourse at your institution and empower you to actively shape teaching and learning at our institutions.  Building on the Future Happens project run by the London School of Economics and Political Science and the University of the Arts London, for the last two years, this workshop will help you be the nexus between practice and strategy, to be part of the discourse at your institution and empower you to actively shape teaching and learning at your institution. Using the principles of crowdsourcing, digital citizenship and collective problem solving, the Future Happens changehack generates, shares and challenges the key messages, tools and strategies available that put the digital in the heart of the conversation and not as an uncritical duplication of institutional norms or as a fringe activity of the tech savvy.

 

A changehack is a way of engaging with staff, students and your community to make change happen, coming up with the innovative and workable solutions and ideas. A changehack works because it seeks to challenge head on and avoid some of the standard blockers that prevent real and productive debate and solutions.  A changehack draws on the principles of crowdsourcing by not simply generating ideas but asking people to become citizens of the crowd, participating because there is a collective good that comes from that participation (Brabham, 2008; Halbert, 2015).

 

This experimental session will outline how a changehack can scale pedagogical and institutional change.  It will share the outcomes of the first Future Happens changehack from 2016, which involved over one hundred practitioners from across the globe.  It will then provide  you with the tools and opportunity to be in the conversation and not just in the room by running a crowd-led, mass changehack to shape how you can influence the critical voices in the institution to scale and embed change.  This session will use the changehack approach to solve the wicked problems of leading institutional change from the centre, recognising the need for constructing and preparing for the unknown possible futures for higher education (Davis & Sumara, 2009).

 

What attendees will get out of your session

This workshop will challenge you to think about the ways you are able to influence your institutions strategic direction and commitments to technology and learning and be a part of the conversation that shapes how they do it. Will you leave with all answers? We doubt it! Will you leave exhausted but informed? We think you will.  Attendees will participate in a collective hack that draws on the power of the crowd to solve problems.  Previous Future Happens hacks in the UK have collectively generated insightful, useful and pragmatic ways to bridge the discourses between the practices of learning technology and how they can be scaled up to be part of the institutional, faculty or School wide strategic approach to innovative pedagogy.  Attendees will collectively own the outputs which will be shared globally as part of the Future Happens movement.

 

Who the session is aimed at

We are aiming this workshop at the widest possible and most inclusive audience we can.  The power of the crowd comes from its capacity to support and learn through diversity.  The more diverse voices in the room, the wider the vision and the better the solutions generated become.  We would actively welcome everyone from educational and technological leaders, teachers, programme leaders, technologists and developers, students, vendors and cynics to be part of the changehack.

 

From the OEB 2017 proposal (a half day session with Dave)

Title: Future Happens– Hack your way to influencing and changing pedagogical and technological strategy and practice

 

Content:

Using the changehack approach successfully run in the UK for the last two years by Future Happens, a collaboration between two leading UK institutions (LSE and UAL), this experimental session is designed to collectively engage in changing the discourses around the role of technology in shaping institutional/faculty wide pedagogical change.  The hack will generate approaches to scaling the lessons and innovations that arise from grassroots practice into approaches that can be included in strategic thinking across disciplines, levels, cohorts and potentially across the whole institution.

 

This experimental session will outline how a changehack can scale pedagogical and institutional change.  It will share the outcomes of the first Future Happens changehack from 2016, which involved over one hundred practitioners from across the globe.  It will then provide you with the tools and opportunity to be in the conversation and not just in the room by running a crowd-led, mass changehack to shape how you can influence the critical voices in the institution to scale and embed change.  This session will use the changehack approach to solve the wicked problems of leading institutional change from the centre, recognising the need for constructing and preparing for the unknown possible futures for higher education (Davis & Sumara, 2009).

 

Proposed agenda (max. 10 lines):

Section 1 – Introduction/Burnt (laying your preconceptions down)

Section 2 – Hacks (Effectively position what we do as a core part of the institution.  Why is this going to make our institutional more successful/deliver the objectives/save my (the VCs) job?  How do we demonstrate what we do will position the organisation effectively? How do we make sure we stay in the conversation and not be relegated to simply providing services aligned with other people’s strategies

Section 3 – Bringing the conclusions togeether

 

Target audience:

We are aiming this workshop at the widest possible and most inclusive audience we can.  The power of the crowd comes from its capacity to support and learn through diversity.  The more diverse voices in the room, the wider the vision and the better the solutions generated become.  We would actively welcome everyone from educational and technological leaders, teachers, programme leaders, technologists and developers, students, vendors and cynics to be part of the changehack.

 

Prerequisite knowledge:

None at all.  Just an open mind to participate in a collective problem solving workshop and the interest in sharing your experiences in being a part of transformative change (or your desire to do the same)

 

Expected outcome(s):

This workshop will challenge you to think about the ways you are able to influence your institutions strategic direction and commitments to technology and learning and be a part of the conversation that shapes how they do it. Will you leave with all answers? We doubt it! Will you leave exhausted but informed? We think you will.  Attendees will participate in a collective hack that draws on the power of the crowd to solve problems.  Previous Future Happens hacks in the UK have collectively generated insightful, useful and pragmatic ways to bridge the discourses between the practices of learning technology and how they can be scaled up to be part of the institutional, faculty or School wide strategic approach to innovative pedagogy.  Attendees will collectively own the outputs which will be shared globally as part of the Future Happens movement.