Newsletter
Welcome to another newsletter, our route to bringing the community of practice together by sharing news, resources, connections and details of online and live events. And a special welcome to the many new friends who’ve joined us as a result of face to face meetings during the ISPIM conference in Tallinn!
Hope you find it useful - and remember, at the heart of what we do is the spirit of open innovation. So please feel free to share anything from your side – comments, suggestions, offers of help or resources, etc.
In this issue you’ll find several sections – just click the links for more details.
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ISPIM 2024 Tallinn – a look back at some of the highlights
What’s new on the supermarket shelves
ISPIM 2024 Tallinn – looking back
It’s taken until now to recover from what was the usual whirlwind of activities and creative encounters. If you weren’t able to make it here’s a few hints about what you missed and you can still find the programme here. And this is a blog piece John wrote offering some of his reflections….
In particular we scheduled a series of workshops, all of which were designed to be interactive, entertaining and useful. They included a day of focused workshops covering core themes:
How should we be using GenAI in our teaching?
You can find the slides from these sessions by following the links above
In addition there were more exciting workshops on offer including:
Click the links for more details, and don’t worry - see below for our plans to recreate the events as online webinars and workshops.
Webinars and workshops
The SIG isn’t just something which happens once a year at the conference; we’re trying to keep it as a living community of practice and finding ways to share ideas, experiences and insights. So in the coming months we plan to continue our programme of webinars and workshops online - we may even explore the possibilities of face-to-face sessions if there’s interest.
To start us off we’re hoping to recruit many of the workshop organizers from the successful conference stream to do a repeat performance of their sessions online. We’ll email dates and details shortly but in the meantime please make a note in your diaries for this first session organized by Katharina :
Bringing Innovation to the Classroom: A Showcase of Innovative Teaching
When: 9th September (13:00 - 14:30 BST; 14:00 - 15:30 CEST)
Where: Online
Paper aeroplanes, Lego, musical instruments – what do you bring to the classroom? Do you use fresh and engaging ways to teach your innovation management students? We are excited to announce a series of short taster sessions where you can share one of your most engaging and imaginative teaching sessions, along with the innovative techniques and resources that you use to make the subject come alive.
We warmly invite you to share your experiences with the ISPIM - International Society for Professional Innovation Management Teaching and Coaching Innovation SIG community on 9th September (13:00 - 14:30 BST). If you are enthusiastic about presenting a dynamic 15-minute Teaching Showcase, we invite you to register through the Expression of Interest form, where you can access additional details about the event.
Expression of Interest form (presenters): https://forms.office.com/e/DABURxqyZn
Register your attendance (non-presenters): https://forms.office.com/e/8Qh0j8BPsX
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Katharina De Vita at k.de.vita@mmu.ac.uk
Later this year we hope to have a session from Tony Morgan on Experiential Learning, somethign from Carina on designing future learnign spaces and hopefully something on ‘Musification’. More details soon.
And we’re always in the market for volunteers so if you’ve got something in the TCI area that you’d be willing to share, please let us know.
Future educators programme
We’re about to run the next iteration of our ‘Future educators programme’ which is deisgned particularly to help those just stareting out on their teaching and coaching journey (but is also a useful refresher for more experienced players!) Innovation and entrepreneurship skills are increasingly in demand – but that raises some big questions. How can we help people learn and master these skills? How can we do so across many different contexts? How can we update and extend our approaches in the light of a rapidly moving frontier of innovation challenges? How can we design and deliver interesting and engaging content in both physical and online worlds?
What you get:
· A ‘LEGO box’ of materials containing templates, activities, tools, assessment models, video, audio and text resources, all designed to help you put together your own programmes in the IE space
· Access to a rich (and growing) set of resources to help you on your teaching/coaching journey
· Interactive workshops (online and face-to-face) configured around key themes and challenges and with useful take-away resources to help tackle them
· Opportunity to network with like-minded people who can help support you
· Link to our ‘library of experience’ drawing on learning and insights from previous iterations of the programme
What it costs: For all materials and workshops, etc. the cost is €100
For more information please contact Lucija at barisic@ispim.org
Workshop themes and dates for 2024:
· Tuesday 24th September, 2pm CET – Meeting the design challenge – how to put together engaging and challenging programmes in the innovation/entrepreneurship space
· Tuesday 19th November May, 2pm CET, Delivering with impact – how to communicate the innovation/entrepreneurship message effectively to diverse audiences
· Tuesday 8th April 2025, 2pm CET, ‘Walking the assessment tightrope – finding new ways to monitor and enable learning progress’
· Sunday June Bergen at ISPIM conference – live practical workshop
Spotlight on projects: ArtIST
You may not know but ISPIM and its network members have been involved in many applied research programmes over the past ten years and continues to do so. Here you’ll find links to past projects and their deliverables – a rich set of resources like games, novel approaches to complement your TCI and tools to help design and deliver courses. Plus news of current projects which you can join in with.
ArtIST (Art, Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Science) is an ERASMUS+ project that aims to design and implement innovative Master-level modules integrating Arts in the education of innovation, entrepreneurship and science
Project aims: ArtIST contributes to the development and modernization of relevant STE(A)M subjects in multidisciplinary programs, such as business, innovation and entrepreneurship.
STE(A)M is an emergent educational approach to learning Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics that promotes students’ creative problem solving, flexibility and communication. STE(A)M brings STEM learning to a higher level and offers a more holistic understanding of our world. STE(A)M approach enables students to build necessary skillset for a successful future and become well-equipped for solving complex challenges of tomorrow.
Grounded in the partners’ research competences and analytical skills, this innovative project contributes to develop multidisciplinary programs mixing arts and technology, hard and soft skills accompanied by entrepreneurial and business training. The programs will be based on creativity techniques, design-driven methods, and modern IoT and ICT tools in teaching
and learning practices.
Project approach: Building on the innovation process methodology and open innovation, ArtIST develops STE(A)M courses supported with toolboxes and online learning space associated with different innovation processes.
The modular structure of the courses provides benefits both for teachers and for students. Teachers can mix and match STE(A)M modules based on the needs of the education process, and students can use courses as Lego blocks and build their competence profile based on preferable new skills. Other project outcomes include a collection of best practices in teaching, building teachers capabilities through comprehensive teaching materials and events, and formulation of the competence map for students and teachers encompassing the most sought-after skills for building a successful career in the next 10 years.
Project partners - ArtIST is navigated by seven Higher education institutions and industry partners from Austria, Finland, France, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania and the Netherlands. The Project is intended for other European educational institutions and training organizations beyond the consortium. It is addressed to all European graduates: teachers and students first, but more generally future innovators, educators, entrepreneurs and leaders.
The project activities include developing concrete policy recommendations supporting better cooperation between different education sectors, research, business, public sectors, and integration of STE(A)M approach to educational programs and wide dissemination in Europe.
What’s new on the supermarket shelves
The Supermarket is a resource base we’ve been building and from which you’re welcome to fill your TCI trolley. You can access cases, activities, tools, games, video and audio and many other materials; it’s open to all and we’d be very pleased to put on the shelves anything you have to share…
Some new stuff on the shelves includes:
The innovation navigator, an approach developed by Benoit and colleagues
Christian Thurnes ran a great workshop on imporbvisation and also shared some helpful resources including his TikTok-Challenge, an AI-Explore-workshop by SAP AppHouse and other resources also offered by SAP here
Design Dash - some helpful tools around design thinking workshops which Carina shared during the ISPIM conference
Scaling value - details and link to toolkit
Impact intrapreneurship - podcast and video interview on how enteprising people are leveraging resources and connections to enable social innovation by working within large established organizations
.Introducing entrepreneurship - a new series of short videos introducing key themes in developing entrepreneurship capabilities
Downloadable open access resources from the IMPACT project, the GAMIFY project looking at the use of games in innovation management and the VISION project, looking at the changing landscape for learning and skills/capability development around innovation
Interesting links
Here you’ll find new blog posts, videos, podcasts, etc around the teaching and coaching innovation theme:
Ethan Mollick - yet another useful paper He has been working hard at the frontier looking at ways to work with AI in teaching and coaching innovation and entrepreneurship. His book ‘Co-intelligence’ has just been published and offers well-thought out critique/guidebook and roadmap for working with AI, especially in our field of teaching and coaching. Together with his partner he has produced an excellent series of videos to help introduce the topic to anyone with an interest in TCI - worth checking out!
Blooket - a new (free for up to 60 students) tool for engaging classes via an online quiz game configurable to many learning topics
As part of the UN work I’ve been helping put together a series of podcasts and webinars around the theme and challenges of scaling innovation. You can watch/listen to them here:
As always, please share any interesting news, helpful links, etc. - drop us a note here·
Dates for your diary
ISPIM Osaka, Japan, 2-4 December
ISPIM Cape Town, South Africa, 17-19 March
ISPIM Bergen, Norway, June 2024
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