This task – the final one before working on the innovation project proposal – was two sets of trigger questions for a needs analysis and broad contextualisation. I’ve been lazy here and added these as the originally submitted PDF documents to avoid having to wrangle tables.
This task focused on analysing the project within the framework of Patton’s developmental evaluation (2011). Developmental evaluation, as outlined by Patton (2011), really resonated with me as an evaluation strategy. We spend so much time in higher education approaching evaluation as a summative activity, to prove worthiness or compliance or Read more…
This task was designed to introduce new researchers to research methods, primarily qualitative and social methods. I will confess I did not invest very heavily in this, and I will also say that my overall project direction changed after this task and thus its relevance to where I have ended Read more…
This task involved mapping out the capabilities required to implement innovation and change successfully in an organisational context. Below is a dynamic visualisation of these (sounds much more impressive than it actually is) done in Kumu, which you should be able to click through (details on each capability and its Read more…
I’ve had this rattling around in my brain for a while now. It began when the question was asked – why would a learning designer research organisational learning? – and grew as I found myself adapting and evolving the way that I was working as a co-creative act between my Read more…
(as a side note, I live in hope that one day not all public domain stock images will be painfully cliche and twee…) The nature of critical thinking in relation to this project is a tricky thing – it’s not simply a matter of evaluating and developing my own critical Read more…
Stakeholder analysis The matrix above is a hybrid that follows Kennon, Howdon and Hartley’s (2009) stakeholder analysis matrix, but is adapted with a coding overlay modified from Mendelow‘s (1981) stakeholder mapping model, which was useful to crystallise my own thinking. The four quadrant codes represent stakeholder types and the strategy Read more…
This task required reading Gibbons et al’s work on modes of knowledge production, then reflecting on the implications of the two modes in my proposed research. This got rather prickly, but I felt I couldn’t shy away from the tensions and ironies inherent in Mode 2 research in a Mode Read more…
I have tried three times now to write this particular thing, each a failed attempt at resolving the tension between the academic and the authentic. Eventually I came to the conclusion that I cannot in good faith make the argument I am about to make and do it via the Read more…
The thing about seeking stories, in particular, is that it’s not just a simple matter of interview-based qualitative inquiry. The literature on interviews as a research method and qualititative inquiry in general that I have come across thus far is often missing a very human layer. It’s easy to describe Read more…