{"id":320,"date":"2018-01-21T22:18:41","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T06:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/?p=320"},"modified":"2018-01-21T22:18:41","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T06:18:41","slug":"continuum-of-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/continuum-of-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Continuum of Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Learning technologies may be considered on a continuum of innovation ranging from renewal to new. Renewal would be replacing one technology with another similar technology. In the middle between renewal and new would be replacing a technology with one that has many new features. New would be introducing a technology that has few or no similarities to previously used learning solutions. We would like you to consider where on this continuum your design falls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If your design falls far towards the new end of the spectrum then you may want to consider whether it may actually be disruptive. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Dron (2014) new technologies may be disruptive enough to result in poorer performance at first when compared to the previous technology and possibly dampen initial uptake. However, if it\u2019s a new technological solution for a problem without a prior solution then these concerns may not apply. If it is a solution on the new end of the spectrum that is replacing an existing solution you may want to consider how disruptive the solution may be and whether this disruptiveness may be mitigated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another thing to consider is that solutions that replace older solutions are often more flexible or have more functionality, and, according to Kay (2001), solutions that are more flexible or have more functionality are usually more difficult to use. Solutions that have more functionality may not be better if most of that functionality goes unused, resulting in a solution that may be more difficult to use without significant user benefit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">References<\/p>\n<p>Dron, J. (2014). Innovation and Change: Changing how we Change. In Zawacki-Richter, O. &amp; T. Anderson (Eds.), Online distance education: Towards a research agenda.Athabasca, AB: AU Press.<\/p>\n<p>Kay, J. (2001). Learner Control. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 11(1-2), 111-27. Retrieved from http:\/\/www.springerlink.com\/openurl.asp?genre=article&amp;i d=doi:10.1023\/A:1011194803800<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning technologies may be considered on a continuum of innovation ranging from renewal to new. Renewal would be replacing one technology with another similar technology. In the middle between renewal and new would be replacing a technology with one that has many new features. New would be introducing a technology that has few or no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lrnt524"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}