Friday 3 December 2010

The ultimate checklist for learning and teaching innovation?

I'm ready Trowler's 'cultures and change in HE. his ideas focus on the need to reconnect L&T policy with local level cultures and practice. the ideas from learning organizations feature strongly. He lays out what a learning organization consists of, and then key questions that HEIs need to ask themselves. I paraphrase tham here. See pp123
1. Does my uni have the capacity to indentify its mistakes error or deficiencies? Is there a form process for doing this? 2. is my uni open to new ideas and alternative ways of doing things? Does it do this in a systematic way or on-the-fly. Does it research possible answers. 3. When alternatives are proposed does it move dirrectly to design policy, or does it work first on how to implementation processthat will truly engage, develop and change practice.
4. Does it think about holistic, sustainable, institution level change, or is it happy with enthusiastic individual level.

So are these the right questions to ask?
Trowler sums up pp127 answers to questions would offer
'robust systems and structures which would give organizational learning sustainabililty. When in place it should allow the institution to identify errors and problems as well as solve them; it will help the institution to learn from its own experience as well as learning from others, it will facilitate experimentation with new approaches and tranfer of knowledge, and finally it will enable the institution to measure its own learning and the progress made.'

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