Virtual Learning & Commitment
Virtual Learning: the recombination of the internet, smart devices, and communication technologies allow students and teachers to foster individual relationships and digitally viable school communities.
Virtual learning innovation requires commitment from various stakeholders, such as students, teachers, organizations, and policymakers at the local and federal levels. Each stakeholder needs to commit to creating the new ecosystem, requiring diverse teams and capabilities to drive the innovation’s key initiatives. .
Teams tasked with innovation growth need to have skills and abilities to manage projects outside typical educational existing systems. For example, the ability to plan and execute a multi-year education program digitally in partnership with local colleges to offer high-college placement. The skillset required extends into political partnerships and road mapping with the aid of cross-functional specialists across engineering, analytics, business development, and technology management to inform. The team must leverage outside knowledge (or 3P companies), schemas, and skillsets to successfully execute a strategy to create a new product or service.
Another capability needed is the ability to design a continuous feedback loop system to accomplish the strategy. Feedback loops allow organizations to gather information from all key elements dynamically (e.g., people, site engagement, student performance, etc.) to improve the concept and determine if a feature, product, or service needs to pivot or persevere or entirely sunset. This insight ultimately informs new initiatives over time. Feedback loops are dynamic processes essential to innovation strategies. Sustainable innovations typically require longer development times and have slower market adoptions (e.g., long-fuse big bang paradigm). Furthermore, sustainable innovations will need a set of wholly new skillsets outside education to differ from current offers significantly (Hargadon, 2015, p.. 34). That said, aforementioned complementary skills outside education would be required.
Because innovation is the recombination of existing products, technologies, and ideas; successful teams need individuals who have outside experiences or skills that can be specialized to specific work streams to drive the strategies initiatives. A successful team will be customer-centric, technology management, and business savvy to develop the proper structure for innovative growth & ideation, feedback loop design, and partnerships to drive meaningful impact in Virtual Learning.
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Reference & Research.
Hargadon, A. (2015). Sustainable Innovation: Build Your Company’s Capacity to Change the World (Innovation and Technology in the World Economy) (1st ed.). Stanford Business Books.
Porter, M. (2019, November 7). What Is Strategy? Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/1996/11/what-is-strategy
