Encouraging Innovation and Creativity May 17, 2013 Faculty Development Day

Learning Outcomes Discuss current techniques used to improve teaching and learning Identify sources and resources to promote innovation and creativity Plan ways to integrate new technology or innovative techniques

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This discussion will be used as a catalyst to plan future faculty development. We expect for this day to provide a forum for collaboration and idea sharing that will continue in innovative and flexible ways.

At the end of the session, each group should provide: Summary of ideas and resources shared Plan for ways to integrate innovation and creativity Include support needed to accomplish plan

Strategies such as "group work, problem solving, idea generation, innovations, designing and face-to-face communication" can foster innovation and creativity. Enterprise School (2011). An Entrepreneurial development framework for higher education institutions. framework-for-institutions-of-higher-education.html

Encouraging Innovation Ryshke, R. (2012) What schools can do to encourage innovation: can-do-to-encourage-innovation/ can-do-to-encourage-innovation/

Questions These questions should be used as a guide to facilitate the discussion. However, please feel free to add/modify questions as needed.

What can we do or do we do to encourage innovation for faculty and students?

Techniques What are you doing that works? What innovative techniques do you use? How do you encourage innovation in your students?

Innovation can include “fun, creativity, diversity, collaboration and the ability to trust intuition” (Reimers- Hild & King, 2009). “One of the most essential elements of innovation is risk taking” (Reimers-Hild & King, 2009).

What kind of technology do you use and how has this impacted student learning? What are some ways to be innovative without the use of technology?

Create Communities of Learners How can we or how do we create collaborative communities of learners?

“When faculty talk with colleagues about teaching strategies and challenges, it helps to create an atmosphere in which it feels safe to try new methods and take risks as an educator” (Simmons, 2012) how-colleges-can-encourage-professors-innovate- teaching how-colleges-can-encourage-professors-innovate- teaching

Challenges What are some challenges you face? How do you overcome these? What are some barriers to student learning? How do you overcome these barriers?

“Research recognizes that some of the most effective leaders are truly passionate about what they do and have a genuine interest in helping their constituents or followers” (Reimers-Hild & King, 2009).

“Innovation is about coming up with new ideas, products, collaborations, services and solutions that can be implemented and used” (Reimers-Hild & King, 2009).

What “new ideas, products, collaborations, services and solutions” can come out of this discussion? What support do you need to move forward? How can we follow-up on this discussion?

Questions or Comments Please contact Laura Taddei at if you have any questions or

Resources Enterprise School (2011) provided an article An Entrepreneurial Development Framework for Higher Education Institutions. Extracted from Reimers-Hild & King (2009). Six questions for entrepreneurial leadership and innovations in distance education. Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration. Extracted from Ryshke, R. (2012) What schools can do to encourage innovation. Extracted from Simmons, E. (2012) Rewarding Teaching Innovations. Extracted from