Value Innovation in Learner-Centered Design. How to Develop Valuable Learning Tools.
This paper shows how to address technological, cultural and social transformations with empirically grounded innovation. Areas in transition such as higher education and learning techniques today bring about new needs and opportunities for innovative tools and services. But how do we find these tool...
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| author | Henning Breuer Heinrich Schwarz Kristina Feller Mitsuji Matsumoto |
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| description | This paper shows how to address technological, cultural and social transformations with empirically grounded innovation. Areas in transition such as higher education and learning techniques today bring about new needs and opportunities for innovative tools and services. But how do we find these tools? The paper argues for using a strategy of (user) value innovation that creatively combines ethnographic methods with strategic industry analysis. By focusing on unmet and emerging needs ethnographic research identifies learner values, needs and challenges but does not determine solutions. Blue-ocean strategy tools can identify new opportunities that alter existing offerings but give weak guidance on what will be most relevant to users. The triangulation of both is illustrated through an innovation project in higher education. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6c642fb54b1e45be828bdd86bd1e49522022-12-22T03:05:56ZengThe International Academic ForumIAFOR Journal of Education2187-05942187-05942014-02-01211637Value Innovation in Learner-Centered Design. How to Develop Valuable Learning Tools.Henning Breuer0Heinrich Schwarz1Kristina Feller2Mitsuji Matsumoto3Waseda University Tokyo, JapanMassachusetts Institute of Technology, USAEuropean University Viadrina, GermanyWaseda University, JapanThis paper shows how to address technological, cultural and social transformations with empirically grounded innovation. Areas in transition such as higher education and learning techniques today bring about new needs and opportunities for innovative tools and services. But how do we find these tools? The paper argues for using a strategy of (user) value innovation that creatively combines ethnographic methods with strategic industry analysis. By focusing on unmet and emerging needs ethnographic research identifies learner values, needs and challenges but does not determine solutions. Blue-ocean strategy tools can identify new opportunities that alter existing offerings but give weak guidance on what will be most relevant to users. The triangulation of both is illustrated through an innovation project in higher education.http://iafor.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/article-1-IAFOR-Journal-of-Education.pdfUser needs and valueInnovationlearner-centered designEthnographyBlue ocean strategyTriangulation |
| spellingShingle | Henning Breuer Heinrich Schwarz Kristina Feller Mitsuji Matsumoto Value Innovation in Learner-Centered Design. How to Develop Valuable Learning Tools. IAFOR Journal of Education User needs and value Innovation learner-centered design Ethnography Blue ocean strategy Triangulation |
| title | Value Innovation in Learner-Centered Design. How to Develop Valuable Learning Tools. |
| title_full | Value Innovation in Learner-Centered Design. How to Develop Valuable Learning Tools. |
| title_fullStr | Value Innovation in Learner-Centered Design. How to Develop Valuable Learning Tools. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Value Innovation in Learner-Centered Design. How to Develop Valuable Learning Tools. |
| title_short | Value Innovation in Learner-Centered Design. How to Develop Valuable Learning Tools. |
| title_sort | value innovation in learner centered design how to develop valuable learning tools |
| topic | User needs and value Innovation learner-centered design Ethnography Blue ocean strategy Triangulation |
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