Standards as enablers for innovation in education

– a reality checkTore Hoel

Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences

Oslo, NorwayICCE 2013, Bali,

Indonesia

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World Standards Day movie

Outline•Paradoxes of Standardisation

•Innovation

•Creation – the standardisation process

•Implementation

•Feedback

•Why the process doesn't work?

•Could it be put right?

Battle of the Standard

22 August 1138 in Yorkshire, England.

Standards make a positive

contribution to the world we live in

facilitate trade

spread knowledge

disseminate innovative

advances in technology

and share good management and

conformity assessment

practices

Types of standardsSeman

tic

Measure&

testing

Interface

Compatibility

& Quality

Constraint and enabler

Standardisation is paradoxical

Prisoner’s dilemma:Nobody uses

standards because nobody uses them

Open and Closed

Participation in standardisation without domain

knowledge

Standards too complicated to be

understood & implemented

Innovation in our domain

Idea

Design

Implement

The Innovation Circle

The standardisation process

Idea

Standards (maintenance)

process

Implementation

process

Specification

Implement

-ation

Factors in the standards

development setting

Factors in the implementation

setting

Creators

Implementers

Users

Egyedi 2008

The standardisation process

Idea

Specification

Factors in the standards

development setting

Creators

The standard setting experts

Input – from where?

Interest project, 2006

Barriers to participation

open-stand.org

September 24th

The Death

ofCEN

WS/LT

September 25th

The launch of EU’s

Opening Up Education

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Timing - when to start creating the standard?

Need

Product or Service

Anticipatory

standards

Participatory

standards

Responsive

standards

Learning Technology Transitions

Sherif 2001

Specifying the standard document

Specifying the standard document

(Hoel, in press)

Meta-disign principles

Implementation process

Idea

Standards (maintenance)

process

Implementation

process

Specification

Factors in the standards

development setting

Implement

-ation

Factors in the implementation

setting

Creators

Implementers

Users

Implementation process

Specification

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Factors in the implementatio

n setting

Implementers

Standards characteristics – Small is beautiful

•Well-formed

•Understandable

•Right size

Mendling, J., Reijers, H. A., and Cardoso, J. (2007). What makes process models understandable?

Is formal Standards Setting Organisatons

able to compete with Consortia?

ISO MLR vs. LRMI

User feedback

Idea

Standards (maintenance)

process

Implementation

process

Specification

Factors in the standards

development setting

Implement

-ation

Factors in the implementation

setting

Creators

Implementers

Users

User feedback

Idea

Specification

Implement

-ation

Users

Users do not provide feedback &

requirements (unless asked)

Leave it to the market?

Understanding the market

Forward we go!

Idea

Design

Implement

Doing the full Innovation Circle

Go with the SSOs that have a truly

Open Process

Standards development and implementation

are intertwined …

… standard bodies should therefore shift

their focus to also include

implementation concerns

More engagement from Implementers

and Users

Eductional authorities must

take responsibilityThe Market is not going to fix

it alone!

Terima kasih!Questions?

tore.hoel@hioa.noTwitter: @tore