A Bristol Institute for Teaching and Learning (BILT) conference session sharing an early preview of the work we are doing at the University of Bristol’s Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship to reimagine how once tangible artefacts of learning – like post-its and research walls – translate into digital and hybrid forms.
A keynote presentation for the Oxford Brookes Evolve Conference in January 2020. The session shared how integrating innovation and entrepreneurship across the four-year Innovation Degrees at the University of Bristol has shaped teaching and learning and how the collaborative, transdisciplinary team of academics and industry professionals have actively and passionately engaged with students as co-creators.
A five-minute snapshot session for the July 2018 Enhancing Student Learning Through Innovative Scholarship Conference. The session was designed to introduce an early iteration of the learning progression for the four-year innovation programme at the University of Bristol’s Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship that transitions through a series of six projects within the first two years of the programme.
I was honored to present at the 2018 Swindon & Wiltshire Women in Business Conference. During the keynote, I shared my story and approach to work in innovation and encouraged attendees to reflect on how a fresh look at collaboration, experimentation and perspective might help their businesses.
This post shares presentation highlights and links to additional resources to learn more.
Customer-centered and human-centered approaches have grown in popularity in the business world to refocus on what really matters—the people an organization exists to serve. In the same way, the idea of student-centered learning is on the rise in higher education. As educators, it requires being adaptable and responsive to the needs of students as we help prepare them to thrive our rapidly changing world.
This article published in the Journal of Finnish Universities of Applied Sciences shares a 4-step process for embracing student centricity in when redesigning learning experiences.
What could it mean, personally or for our business, if we fully realized the magnitude of the changes that are in our future are as great as those in our past? What if we used that knowledge to shape the future? This post introduces the concepts of end of history illusion and Futures Thinking and how they impact these questions.
This is the third post in a four-part series exploring the rise of services and providing tips for brands looking to understand service basics.
Delivering a service is about creating value for another human being, yet human beings are unpredictable. This can make service delivery challenging to grasp...
This is the first post in a four-part series exploring the rise of services and providing tips for brands looking to understand service basics. This post explores the rise in services businesses that has been occurring since the industrial revolution. Did you know that services make up 80 percent of U.S. economic activity?
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